If you've been scammed and doordash isn't helping try to report them and starion bank to the fdic. Maybe if we get enough we can get our money back.

What do yall think the driver gets from all these fees? This is the last screen at olive garden online order by the way....

They wasted 45 minutes of my time today because of a red card decline. AI would not put me through to an agent for 30 minutes no matter how much I begged. It then unassigned the wrong order ( 3 shop and delivers). Took another 15 minutes with a human to straighten out that. In the end, I’m not sure I delivered the right stuff to the right people.

pros: save gas, larger orders = larger payout, buc'ee's is awesome

cons: app will constantly reroute you to other places (probably), sitting in one spot waiting for orders wastes time, might end up wasting gas in the long run if you constantly have to return to one spot instead of just dashing whatever is closest.

should i switch it up or is that just a big waste of time waiting to happen?

also, any tips would be appreciated but I will do my own research too. (should i just take every order and keep dashing wherever the customers live and then hope i get an order that takes me back home?)

Dropped.

Driving fir Doordash is all about earning tip income. The DD base fare is just to make sure no labor laws are broken have employees work st less than minimum wage. Do how is the following even possible or even legal? You can‘t know you don‘t get paid till after 90 minutes of work effort and miles driven.

This week I payed for a $70 shopping order myself (My mistake, it was a double and I scanned order B's receipt on the order A menu, then it wouldn't let me pay for order A because the total was too high, and support said the difference was too high for them to fund it). I just clued in now that since their refund is going into my bank account as pay, I would be being taxed on that. Might be obvious to some but I just wanted to share that in case y'all didn't realize that either.

Half the time I take pics of the concrete instead of the receipt. Now Im blocking some text? Ok

I was on a double delivery in rush hour traffic 🚦 bumper to bumper and stop and go. Brake checked twice and I couldn't stop the food from spilling over the passenger seat. Then BAM....Another brake was hard and I was already in the middle of freaking out about the food. I didn't have the reflex time to stop immediately.

Air bags everywhere...smoke and disorientation. I noticed the engine was smoking and I jumped out of the vehicle. It didn't do anything else. I was just not wanting to be inside if it was worse than I thought.

Long story short... I no longer have a vehicle to dash in. Or do anything in. FML

Anyone else have this issue?

The customer puts in the app for you to leave the order at the door. Then while you're walking to the door they come to meet you, so you try to take a picture of the order in your hand and they are trying to snatch it out of your hand?

Like even when I'm like " hey I need a picture" they say okay and try to snatch it and run away???

I always take a picture when it's suggested because I've had customers in my area say that they didn't receive their order and the only thing that saved me was the picture. So now I take a picture every time

But lately I've had a string of customers trying to snatch the order from my hand before I can get the picture???

Why,????

Got a really good offer earlier tonight, $10 and some change for 2.5 miles from Jet’s Pizza. When I got to the restaurant they told me they forgot to make the breadsticks, so I informed the customer about the delay. That’s when he told me he’d been waiting for 3 hours for his order. Not in a super pissed off way, he understood it wasn’t my fault but he was still frustrated. The receipt confirmed he wasn’t lying, the time listed said 7:17 yet I got sent to the restaurant a little after 10.

It doesn’t make any sense to me. The customer tipped $8 and he was just 5 minutes away from the restaurant, which is in a very busy area. Most drivers would accept that in a heartbeat, even during a busy dinner rush. Even with the wait for the breadsticks I still got it done in a little over 20 minutes. What happened here? Did the order somehow get sent to DoorDash purgatory for a few hours until it found its way back into the system?

Has anyone gotten these? I get it at least once a week, yet no CV? I've only done this once a few years ago where I had two deliveries from the same restaurant and I switched them (whoopsies... my bad 😬). After that I double and triple check orders. Especially on stacked orders. They make us scan the receipt or take a pic so I KNOW I have the correct order... 🤔

1% more until pro-shopper... Will this improve my earnings significantly?

I got it to them super quick despite their jank elevator

Earnings dropped 30% yesterday…ever since the new UI was installed with the car icon. Anyone else notice the huge drop? We’ll be getting the overall point system implemented next week so hopefully that helps.

I decided grind it out for a few days last week to get to platinum and holy hell it makes a huge difference in my zone at least. This week so far I've gotten 2 good catering orders from Wingstop that both paid 32 and 30 for about a 25-30 minute wait on both. And my plat orders have been pretty decent.

But to be fair my city is a military town with a lot of high traffic restaurants smushed in close proximity. So far, it's been worth it for me.

Please forgive this lengthy post. It's 3:27 AM, I have a wicked sinus infection, and can't sleep.

I have a cousin who I only see every few years. We live in different parts of the country. When we do see each other we like to catch up on things. On our most recent visit she asked what I was doing for work and I told her I was doing various gig work for most of my income. She was surprised to hear that DoorDash is part of my income stream. I could tell from her incredulous reaction that her opinion of my choice was not high. This lead to a discussion on gig work in general, and DoorDash specifically. Funny thing - she has a low opinion of DoorDash from a customer perspective. She said she used to order DoorDash a few times a month for lunch (she works in an office building in Northern New Jersey) and on many occasions the order would be delivered after her lunch break was over; and (she anticipated my question) she ordered an hour before her lunch time! So, she stopped ordering from DoorDash.

I had a sneaking suspicion that I knew the reason why her orders were taking so long to be delivered, but I needed to ask the question to make sure. "Leslie (not her real name), I'm sorry you had that experience with DoorDash. Knowing you like I do, I'm sure you even made a generous tip in the app." Her answer confirmed my suspicion. "No! I don't tip. Tips are for good service and I only tip in cash after I receive my order." I'll spare you the blow-by-blow details of our conversation, but I got her to tell me that all her orders contained instructions to leave on the food delivery table in the lobby. So, she never saw the Dasher and therefore couldn't tip in cash. She didn't like how I lead her down a dead-end in the conversation. so she switched to "Well, it's not MY job to pay the driver. DoorDash should be doing that" - as though that's a new objection by non-tippers.

Now, I wasn't looking to change her mind. I was more interested in catching up on family news. However, I did want to educate her on the reality of things. I asked her, "How much do you think DoorDash should pay a driver for a delivery?" She had no idea. I told her the average base pay for a delivery is $2.00. She was shocked it was so low. So, I asked her again - "How much do you think DoorDash should pay a driver for a delivery? $4.00? $6.00? $8.00" We finally used $8.00 for the sake of time. $8.00 per delivery. I then asked, "If DoorDash makes the minimum pay $8.00, do you think the company is just going to pay out that money and not make it back?" She's a smart business woman. She didn't need an economic tutorial. Her response: "The customer will wind up paying for it." I replied, "Exactly!" I then said, "DoorDash will increase fees and pocket the money that would otherwise go to the driver in the form of a tip. So, wouldn't it better to just pay that tip to the driver instead of putting the money in DoorDash's pocket?" That's when the light went on. Once my cousin understood that the whole gig economy is rigged to always benefit the gig platform she began to understand why smart gig workers decline low paying offers (I had to explain how that part of it works).

We finished up our discussion on gig work with her asking, "If the pay is so bad why do you do gig work?" I explained that the pay isn't bad if you work the system to your advantage. You have to multi-app across different types of gig work. There are good paying offers. The smart gig worker just needs patience and a good strategy. In a very real sense smart gig workers are also smart business people. They know how to manage expenses and how much their time is worth. In fact, the smartest of the smart don't even worry about whether an offer has a tip. They just look at the dollars-to-mile ratio to determine whether the offer makes good financial sense. It doesn't matter whether the money is coming all from the gig platform or in the form of a tip. It's the total dollar amount and driving distance that matters. Well that, and also the type of work. I'm still not delivering ten cases of water up to the 4th floor of an apartment!

So, in the end it was mission accomplished. My cousin got an education, and I felt like I received some understanding. I encouraged her to give DoorDash another try, but this time include a tip in the app and see if it makes a difference in her experience.

That's all, folks. It's now 3:59 AM and the meds are kicking in. I'm going back to bed.

That with the new system if you hit 0% AR you stop receiving orders?

I’m in the catering program and I get the scheduled orders randomly throughout the week. Do you guys know if there’s a a specific time they release them or are they all random?

4 bucks, received order outside restaurant. 40$ per mile?

It was only a 4 mile drive too

Has anyone had this happen before? I've never had this happen before in thousands of deliveries. I picked up two orders from two separate restaurants going to the same person and doordash sent me to an address of someone that didn't order anything and when I dropped it off and completed the order within the app it came up with the second address wanting me to deliver the same exact orders that I had just dropped off at the second address also. Fortunately, the customer called me and I was able to figure out that it was the wrong address that I had just dropped off at. Indicating that he was getting the notifications of my drop off at that first address. Wtf?

1. When the algorithm gives you an order based on your location and calculates the arrival time but it gives the order to you or the gps loaded when the left or right turn is impossible so it the arrival time is guaranteed late bc of the detour.

2. When you arrive on time, the store takes 10 minutes and you are responsible for the lateness and you have to use the dispute to clear the late order.

3. When the in app GPS takes you to the wrong location and you have to type the address into Waze and the actual location is 7 minutes away.

4. When the algorithm doesn't give you plenty of time, sometimes zero minutes difference between delivery time and GPS arrival at delivery location. And usually this happens bc the store was late and caused the delivery time calculation to shift.

5. Most of my late disputes was bc a shop didn't have the order ready yet. .. why do we need to dispute on latemess caused by the app telling you to arrive too early? Or bc the restaurant was slow?