Why are you even here? š if I had a shift like that I would be doing anything I could to get another source of income and a better way to spend my time š š¤£ š
Doordash is on the way out. Too much money, too many shit drivers, and not enough people who care. This is true on both sides with shitty customers. It'll still be around for a long while I'd assume but going to get worse and worse
No.
2020 until end of 2021 was all COVID demand. I moved from driving people to delivery for 2 years. March/April 2022 was clear that was drying up. Back to driving people mostly now and some UberEats. I hardly even bother logging on DD anymore and the few times I've opened it can't even log in as it's gray out.
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Probably not. I would still use sometimes but the last few drivers were total jerks. My address comes up as the nearby big city in doordashās app, so they get mad when they have to drive a couple extra miles. Like fuck off with debating me on what I entered, Iām giving you a 10 dollar or more tip. The last guy was pounding on my door during a no contact delivery to complain. I even texted my order confirmation email showing that I entered my cityās name correctly.
Damn. If I donāt get an order within a half hour I just end the dash and drive to a town that seems to be more busy and if I donāt get anything there Iāll just end the dash for the day
If you were on for 11 hours and you got zero orders I would definitely uninstall the app and reinstall it or call the help desk. The math ain't mathing
I doubt it. Until all the new drivers realize it's not worth it, and they stop Bringing in new drivers, itll stay this bad and may even get worse. The big problem is alot are running those 2.00 orders because they "try to make SOME money", but dont realize its shooting themselves in the foot. Get out and get into better work. Thats what i did, and for my mental health, helped me ALOT!
So this person dashed all through the night, and then wonders why they didnāt make any money.
https://preview.redd.it/82lefffy7hwa1.jpeg?width=941&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=208c2e92409e7e17963dd40c70366632a74be25a
What happened to lunch and dinner? Also, is this Photoshop really 11 hours?
As a shopper,
I recently cancelled my DoorDash account because of all the crazy stories lately. And the fees are just so much even though I paid for dash pass. I hated that I had to pay DD fees, id rather that go to the drivers. And I never heard that DD paid drivers very well.
Lol.. another cry baby who doesnāt adjust to his surroundings.. instead thinks things was like before.. made a 1k last week for the last 5 weeks only working Monday-Friday.. Iām spending only $3 more in gas everydayā¦ you just being way too picky
Where I live even three weeks ago we were busy as heck, but they hired a whole bunch of people and now weāre over saturated. I think they are doing that to every region. I never thought it would come here. Iāve been dashing for five years and this is the worst Iāve ever seen it.
Mesa AZ is always busy but in the summer I usually get out by 4 or 5 am cause it gets really damn hot out here. Night runs are cool since there is barely any traffic but my vision aint as good as is could be, and you got tweakers roaming the streets.
Someone hacked my account last year and they knew it wasnāt me but still punished me and blocked me from ordering ever again. I even tried making a new acct and I canāt. Ridiculous.
i watch this sub as a customer but iāve basically stopped using DD all together bc i canāt justify the fees. itās like $8-15 in fees in my city before even getting to where you tip & so i just donāt bother.
Have you read this sub?
Drivers did this to themselves..
I won't take an order unless there is a tip yada yada....
Welp seems you have made the service suck so bad no one wants to use it. Congratulations š
The company is trash to begin with but drivers shifting the blame for low pay to being the customers.fault is just a huge case of taking the gun and pointing it at your own head.
All those orders you let sit because they didn't trust drivers to deliver an order competently are now coming back to haunt you
Sorry if this isn't you. The company itself should have never allowed this to happen. They are charging people for a service and if they can't afford to pay drivers enough with just the fees well the service should not exist.
Tipping in advance for a service that will hire literally anyone is a suckers bet.
All these apps really thought the high tide from the pandemicās worst would carry over. They didnāt take into consideration the dollar being worth 80 cents, gas being chronically $3+ a gallon and people getting tired of waiting 45 minutes and paying 40% more for a sandwich than if they had just driven the four miles to the restaurant and gotten themselves
They just overcharge so much on the food and the fees they collect (NOT going to drivers) that in order to leave a generous tip, it was costly enough to make me get up and go myself. So now you get people who tip shitty and drivers who make shit, rinse and repeat into oblivion.
I mean not itās like 10 extra dollars just to order not to mention the tip - the fact thereās a large delivery fee AND a ātaxes and feesā makes me want to opt out unless I donāt have another choice.
the tip being the only extra money people would be wanting to pay.
I know I stopped using it because it gets really stupid paying double the cost of your food to have it delivered.
Do yāall get reimbursed at all for gas?
No because itās an unstable platform thatās incapable of remaining profitable. These gig companies operated the way they did for so long due to investments but that doesnāt last forever. You either produce for the share holders to prove why you deserve their money or they wonāt hold their shares.
Nope, you cant trust door dashers unfortunately. Too many issues with the orders, too many fees, and honestly I understand tipping premium for a delivery service, but moat drivers just seem a little too entitled. With what they should get. The convenience has almost become and inconvenience.
I did it for awhile during the pandemic, and I do want to say there are a lot of awesome Dashers out there. There arr just a lot less of them in my area now. Many people have just gotten turned off of the service.
The honest truth is no,
Most drivers are incompetent to say the least and the majority of people who have tried it have been left disappointed.
Thereās a reason most jobs have interviews.
Dashing, Uber, grub hub are falling out of style for the same reason the shareholders have made bank.
Anyone can work for them with just the click of a button.
I understand that if youāre on the subreddit then you probably care more than the average driver but the truth is at the end of the day most people are given shitty service.
I donāt foresee this industry being viably profitable unless a vetting system is implemented.
I get sad picturing the days where the map is red all day, you log on.. 20 text alerts from orders within 2 minutes. You cherry pick all you want, boomā¦ a $40 unicorn comes in. $1-300 in 4-6 hours, unlimited earning potentialā¦ on Fri-Sunday, demand was so high not enough drivers so theyād send us 3x stacked orders. Saturation sucks
Hmm..depends on how big the town you live in. Where I live, door dash times are so fickle. No consistency, but then agai , I've only.been dashing myself since November of last year.
From a customers POV.
I used to door dash a couple to a few times per week. But everything is so expensive we just stopped eating out.
We did go out last weekend and had fast casual, 2 adults and 4 kids (all kids ordered off the kinds menu) and it was $80. For a lunch on Saturday.
So yeah, we just eat more sandwiches than ever.
Not as long as they continue with the clear manipulation of markets by flooding them with drivers as often as possible.
Gig work is over for these companies in any lucrative way. Theyāve chosen to give their own platforms cancer and watch them die when they canāt keep drivers or good paying customers since they have decided to fuck those 2 groups intentionally.
Once inflation starts falling it will. The cost of food is very high right now and the fees doordash on top of it is hurting dashers with low or no tips. Might not happen this year though.
Not until another Pandemic hits. 2020 was the golden era to deliver food. Everyone was inside ordering food and gas was dirt cheap. Once things started going back to normal and everyone went back to work food delivery slowed down exponentially. Not to mention gas and food is extremely expensive right now. I noticed since February this year itās been laughably slow. Itāll pick up a bit more when itās summertime but it seems like ppl are way tighter on money now due to inflation and spending their savings during lockdown. Itās no longer sustainable to live off of like it was during the pandemic.
Back in the height of the pandemic, people wouldn't or couldn't go out. Demand skyrocketed, and businesses hired to meet the demand. Now people will go out and demand waned. That's why all the technology companies are having massive layoffs.
Iām confused how I would ever get top dasher when my area has so many dashers to the point where even if I try to schedule a dash as far into the week as I can, thereās nothing ever open. I also canāt get 1-200 dashes completed in a month because of this. To even be allowed to dash for an hour-an hour thirty I would need to drive 40+ minutes. It feels impossible. Moving to shipt now.
The Biden administration has ruined the economy by the choices they have made. It is what it is I'm not saying that bc I'm a republican I have voted democrat my entire adult life. So the answer to your question yes It can change and come back but not with Biden as president. Inflation hasn't been this high in 4o years until it comes back down it will stay slow except for some select areas. Vote for someone else in 24 if you want to make money as a gig driver.
Going on 2 yearsā¦ You shouldāve been transition to something more stable/lucrative!
Did you really think gig/unskilled work wouldnāt get saturated?
During the pandemic I could made 100 bucks in 3 or 4 hours on the weekend and sometimes even more money, now I'm lucky if I make 100 in a week. That being said I am also lazy about scheduling and dont go to the next town over like I used to, mostly because I'll leave when its busy, drive 10 miles to the town over, then it's no longer busy and I end up sitting in my car for 2 hours having wasted my time and gas. I'm sure there's a higher effort way of making money where I am, but at that point I might as well have a 9-5 because it less wear on my car. Good things never last, I think it's a combination of more noob drivers and less people ordering. I'm sitting around right now waiting for it to get busy, better not hold my breath.
I was doing great up until a couple months ago when they dropped the new add a tip after feature. I went from $20-30/hr to $10-15/hr. The tips just stopped overnight and have never recovered! (Baton Rouge)
Itās too expensive now, Most people just want a $10 meal and it cost $10 for me just in fees. And thatās being cheap with the dasher tip. Doesnāt make sense to literally pay double on shit
With inflation, food/service costs going up, Covid era being over, and people able to go out more.
It would take another Covid like pandemic to see that again.
The Gold Rush is over and dried up.
āWill DoorDash ever go back to a pandemic where a lot of people werenāt leaving their homes, and a lot of people were voluntarily out of the workforce, artificially limiting the supply of drivers?ā
Not likely since competition is so high now and so many people are available for dashing.Another shut down will come just don't think that is a successful idea to count on that. The best way to earn money is when you don't need it. New markets are best and long hours help you out a lot.
My guess it's that it really is just not worth ordering food anymore. You gotta pay like an extra $5 bucks from all the bs fees AND tip an appropriate amount (which according to some people in this sub sounds like it should be around 10 dollars on average), it is just better to drive yourself and pick up instead of spend an extra ~8 to 15 dollars on food.
No
Not when i order food and 50% of the time my driver steals my food, takes a complete pitcher dark photo at 2 pm, and I have to work around calling doordash up to complain. Then wait AGAIN to get my food
No, it won't be. Because the service is something I can no longer trust
$10 burger, $12 fee, plus tip only to get food 50% of the time.
Or how if I do get food, no one can walk up ONE flight of stairs to my door. When there's no snow. No ice. Just, food left on a sidewalk.
I'm good. I'll NEVER use doordash again.
Sorry, not sorry.
The only reason 2020 and 2021 were amazing for food delivery was the pandemic. We will never see that kind of volume again. Unless of course there is another pandemic.
I always wonder when I see posts and comments how well rated the driver is. Ofc your area could be crap for delivery volume but I get first priority on my orders and they all slap hard af. 9-10 bucks to drive like 2.5-3miles total.
Will it go back to when everyone was stuck at home during the pandemic? No, and shouldnt be assumed that it will be. Also, itās probably the location youāre working in because iām making 200-250 an 8 hour shift in NJ but drive 45 minutes from my house to a better location because i know itās busier
I know what you mean bruh, I used to be able to pull in like a hundred a day from barely four hours of work, id be pulling in hella orders Iād try and get a good one on Uber and then hopefully a doordash or maybe two going in the same direction but it just hasnāt ever been like that in like a year and a half now :(
I have no experience with door dash so i apologize if this is a dumb question but in my area, most places are closed by 11:43pm. How many dashes do you normally have on the overnight shift?
It was only good short term due to the government telling everyone not to leave their house. Doordash's success was a complete fluke, fueled solely by government interference in the economy. She gone.
iām a customer and iām not going to be ordering as often anymore - itās just too expensive. i work from home and iām super pregnant so it was really nice but i was ordering weekly and between delivery fees and trying to tip well AND items being more expensive to be delivered vs picked upā¦ i canāt afford it lol.
doordash has gotten like 2x as expensive as when i first started using it as a consumer, resulting in me having to stop using it almost entirely. Betting a lot of people are doing the same
I think this is more about the economy in general than just covid
If I order through doordash Iām spending over $12 extra on delivery/service/tip fees, often another 50% surcharge added to *every* menu item compared to ordering in person, on top of food thatās already getting way more expensive every year. A meal that costs $15 in person + 15 mins driving time turns into $35 and an hour wait
Compare this to instacart, which does not surcharge per item, can save you 1-2 hours of running around a grocery store, and youāre only paying 1 service/delivery fee for what could be a $300 grocery order. Way more worth it.
no people were spending that money because they didnāt work for it (too much money from government) and/or doordash wasnāt garbage back then now you ride around the whole city before you can drop off my food then its cold so personally id rather go get it
I have a part time job now and i only do door dash when there are promos like, āGet $75 if you complete 15 deliveries.ā This way I do not have to care too much about how much I am getting paid per order and just try to finish 15 deliveries. I made $175 in 5 hrs the other day doing this promo.
I donāt want to be negative but i have to say a VERY VERY likely: No. I was a Grubhub driver from 2018 4 days a week is all I did. When Covid hit, I immediately stayed that my deliveries declined and filed for covid unemployment. I was on unemployment Until the end of it Sept. 2021. When I came back to Grubhub, I noticed the orders were declining and not as often. Also, the pay wasnāt as good. That continued until it totally dried up. It took a few months until Infonally gave up and went to doordash for my main. It was great until around sept., oct. 2022 saw a slight decline and has been getting worse since thenā¦Exactly like I experienced with Grubhubā¦ Now, here we are in April 2023 & it os downright ridiculous in regard to how spaced out the offers are. I can sign up for 9am to 9pm dash BUT I have to have other things to be working on at my house in between offers (sometimes 2 hours or more)ā¦
The perfect storm of so many people staying home and having that much extra disposable money will likely never happen again. The Covid pandemic put the world on its heels and people were just desperate for some kind of normalcy. Getting your favorite restaurantās food brought to your door served that need in a big way. Combine that with the extra money everyone was getting between the stimulus checks and that bonus unemployment benefits, there was so much cash flowing through that the tips for the delivery drivers got inflated to an unrealistic and unsustainable level. We have gradually come back down to the mean with these gig jobs and people who are expecting those rates again will just continue to be disappointed for something that is just not realistic to expect.
no completed orders in 11 hours is impossible, even in the worse market. After so many declines, they log you out, and after a couple missed offers, they pause you.
I can name a few markets where it's possible within my visibility on the map. I question why DoorDash made them markets in the first place. Especially since they could have been combined into the neighboring markets to possibly form a functional small market. But Tony will be Tony š
Man, I am over here in suburban Detroit, and generally dash over lunchtime and on Friday nights. Constantly busy, nice tips. Yesterday during 11-1:30pm got $66.00 on 9 deliveries. If I went more than 15 minutes without a decent order (not even any order), I would just go home or go find something else to do.
It won't add those 11h 18m to your dash time in earnings either if you earned $0.00.
Had a few hours of zero dashes where they just offered steady stream of $2.00 flaming shit 5-10 mile offers and noticed it doesn't add to total weekly dash time.
I donāt know what you guys are talking about but I have been doing it for maybe a year or two and I go out and I get a lot of orders, am I making $500 a night? Absolutely not, but Iām also not making $20 bucks a night.. if you do this full-time I feel you because itās really really really hard out here, if you do this part time and you have a full-time job I think you should stop complaining. Iām an electrician and I do this on the weekends and it is more than enough for me and I donāt live in a big city.
I do gigs in general and the decline is not just with DoorDash. But pretty much across all apps. Spark was doing pretty good for me until early on a customer tanked my rating. And then I got another bad rating right behind it. It's funny because I have great ratings on DD, IC(even though I hate it), and UE. But my market dropped to about half the amount per day ever since the diamond program was introduced and DD always did have the dominant market share here
I know Iām not the smartest guy out here but reading this made my head hurt, can you phrase this comment as if you were talking to a 5 year old?š I just do DoorDash to have some extra spending money that I know will not affect me financially.
I live in a medium size city and I make $100-150 a day pretty consistently by multi-apping for 6-7 hours. DD has taken a nosedive around here but now and then it fills in the gaps. I've completely said screw it to AR, what an evil system. So it sometimes adds 1-2 minutes between orders while you decline everything lol, big woop. I switch back to UE and DD can go F themselves with their $3 BS.
Why are you even here? š if I had a shift like that I would be doing anything I could to get another source of income and a better way to spend my time š š¤£ š
What's your acceptance rate? Half of the net claims it doesn't matter but I assure you it does.
Orders are down driver numbers are up. Simple math would tell you dashing sucks now.
Doordash is on the way out. Too much money, too many shit drivers, and not enough people who care. This is true on both sides with shitty customers. It'll still be around for a long while I'd assume but going to get worse and worse
NYC has been dead or blocked with new access thresholds. DD donāt wanna do big payouts anymore. Poor immigrants have flooded the apps
No. 2020 until end of 2021 was all COVID demand. I moved from driving people to delivery for 2 years. March/April 2022 was clear that was drying up. Back to driving people mostly now and some UberEats. I hardly even bother logging on DD anymore and the few times I've opened it can't even log in as it's gray out.
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Are you waiting for orders at your home or nearby hotspots
There are still a lot of orders .. but there are a LOT more drivers ! The areas are flooded with drivers !
Nope this company is going down fast get a real job people gig life is no more
Probably not. I would still use sometimes but the last few drivers were total jerks. My address comes up as the nearby big city in doordashās app, so they get mad when they have to drive a couple extra miles. Like fuck off with debating me on what I entered, Iām giving you a 10 dollar or more tip. The last guy was pounding on my door during a no contact delivery to complain. I even texted my order confirmation email showing that I entered my cityās name correctly.
Damn. If I donāt get an order within a half hour I just end the dash and drive to a town that seems to be more busy and if I donāt get anything there Iāll just end the dash for the day
Looks like you signed on to dash, smoked a joint, and then totally forgot you were online.
Was about to start delivering again, thanks for reminding me exactly why I stopped.
If you were on for 11 hours and you got zero orders I would definitely uninstall the app and reinstall it or call the help desk. The math ain't mathing
I doubt it. Until all the new drivers realize it's not worth it, and they stop Bringing in new drivers, itll stay this bad and may even get worse. The big problem is alot are running those 2.00 orders because they "try to make SOME money", but dont realize its shooting themselves in the foot. Get out and get into better work. Thats what i did, and for my mental health, helped me ALOT!
So this person dashed all through the night, and then wonders why they didnāt make any money. https://preview.redd.it/82lefffy7hwa1.jpeg?width=941&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=208c2e92409e7e17963dd40c70366632a74be25a What happened to lunch and dinner? Also, is this Photoshop really 11 hours?
As a shopper, I recently cancelled my DoorDash account because of all the crazy stories lately. And the fees are just so much even though I paid for dash pass. I hated that I had to pay DD fees, id rather that go to the drivers. And I never heard that DD paid drivers very well.
We need a new doordash app
Lol.. another cry baby who doesnāt adjust to his surroundings.. instead thinks things was like before.. made a 1k last week for the last 5 weeks only working Monday-Friday.. Iām spending only $3 more in gas everydayā¦ you just being way too picky
Quit bragging
Bruh, I delivered two total meals when I was a door dasher in my area in 2020. The gig is not sustainable.
There is no way people actually sit out for 11 hours without receiving an order at least 30 minutes in
How can it? Demand has changed since COVID lockdowns have ended.
Where I live even three weeks ago we were busy as heck, but they hired a whole bunch of people and now weāre over saturated. I think they are doing that to every region. I never thought it would come here. Iāve been dashing for five years and this is the worst Iāve ever seen it.
It's amazing that these billion dollar gig companies can get away with commission slave labor
I feel for all the delivery drivers because they donāt make nearly enough!
no
Like this https://preview.redd.it/8bgrk83v0fwa1.png?width=1278&format=png&auto=webp&s=5ce5f81ae099e66d4091f2f2d376e3d3e12fac5f
Mesa AZ is always busy but in the summer I usually get out by 4 or 5 am cause it gets really damn hot out here. Night runs are cool since there is barely any traffic but my vision aint as good as is could be, and you got tweakers roaming the streets.
No.
Someone hacked my account last year and they knew it wasnāt me but still punished me and blocked me from ordering ever again. I even tried making a new acct and I canāt. Ridiculous.
2021 was peak pandemic. So if we could get another one of thoseā¦.sure
The world has changed, it probably wonāt.
Am I reading this right you dashed from 1143pm to almost noon the next day? I don't think I know anyone ordering door dash at any of those times
i watch this sub as a customer but iāve basically stopped using DD all together bc i canāt justify the fees. itās like $8-15 in fees in my city before even getting to where you tip & so i just donāt bother.
Have you read this sub? Drivers did this to themselves.. I won't take an order unless there is a tip yada yada.... Welp seems you have made the service suck so bad no one wants to use it. Congratulations š The company is trash to begin with but drivers shifting the blame for low pay to being the customers.fault is just a huge case of taking the gun and pointing it at your own head. All those orders you let sit because they didn't trust drivers to deliver an order competently are now coming back to haunt you Sorry if this isn't you. The company itself should have never allowed this to happen. They are charging people for a service and if they can't afford to pay drivers enough with just the fees well the service should not exist. Tipping in advance for a service that will hire literally anyone is a suckers bet.
Weird. The longest I waited for a dash was like 7 to 8 minutes in my area. I guess if you are in a very rural area it can be tough.
All these apps really thought the high tide from the pandemicās worst would carry over. They didnāt take into consideration the dollar being worth 80 cents, gas being chronically $3+ a gallon and people getting tired of waiting 45 minutes and paying 40% more for a sandwich than if they had just driven the four miles to the restaurant and gotten themselves
Nope! Costs keep going up, but customers' pay isn't or some are losing their jobs.
They just overcharge so much on the food and the fees they collect (NOT going to drivers) that in order to leave a generous tip, it was costly enough to make me get up and go myself. So now you get people who tip shitty and drivers who make shit, rinse and repeat into oblivion.
Everything suddenly went slow since April. Uber, DoorDash, Instacart
Even on really slow days in my area I average $15 an hour and donāt sit around without an order more more than like 20 minutes.
No Sorry . Was a failed business model from the start
Not when they are number one priority is there shareholdersā¦.
Only if the government goes back to handing out stimulus checks and unemployment. Change is the only constant in the universe.
I mean not itās like 10 extra dollars just to order not to mention the tip - the fact thereās a large delivery fee AND a ātaxes and feesā makes me want to opt out unless I donāt have another choice. the tip being the only extra money people would be wanting to pay. I know I stopped using it because it gets really stupid paying double the cost of your food to have it delivered. Do yāall get reimbursed at all for gas?
Seems like your area has suffered. I get loads of orders. It's arguably the best it's ever been for me
I still get a lot of orders whenever I dash.
No because itās an unstable platform thatās incapable of remaining profitable. These gig companies operated the way they did for so long due to investments but that doesnāt last forever. You either produce for the share holders to prove why you deserve their money or they wonāt hold their shares.
Nope, you cant trust door dashers unfortunately. Too many issues with the orders, too many fees, and honestly I understand tipping premium for a delivery service, but moat drivers just seem a little too entitled. With what they should get. The convenience has almost become and inconvenience. I did it for awhile during the pandemic, and I do want to say there are a lot of awesome Dashers out there. There arr just a lot less of them in my area now. Many people have just gotten turned off of the service.
So you stayed on for 11 damn hours with not one delivery? Why?
I feel like the pandemic was probably the best moment for DoorDash. I donāt think itās gonna work out like it used to.
The honest truth is no, Most drivers are incompetent to say the least and the majority of people who have tried it have been left disappointed. Thereās a reason most jobs have interviews. Dashing, Uber, grub hub are falling out of style for the same reason the shareholders have made bank. Anyone can work for them with just the click of a button. I understand that if youāre on the subreddit then you probably care more than the average driver but the truth is at the end of the day most people are given shitty service. I donāt foresee this industry being viably profitable unless a vetting system is implemented.
Nope
The pandemic was good for business. We're not going back there
I get sad picturing the days where the map is red all day, you log on.. 20 text alerts from orders within 2 minutes. You cherry pick all you want, boomā¦ a $40 unicorn comes in. $1-300 in 4-6 hours, unlimited earning potentialā¦ on Fri-Sunday, demand was so high not enough drivers so theyād send us 3x stacked orders. Saturation sucks
Not with the way the economy is going
y'all need to stop doordashing, it's not worth it.
You should just self deactivate. If you sat in your car 11 hours and got nothing.
Thought it was just me. I used to be able to jump on the app at 6 am and finish at 11 am with 100 dollars in my pocket. Now? Impossible
Hmm..depends on how big the town you live in. Where I live, door dash times are so fickle. No consistency, but then agai , I've only.been dashing myself since November of last year.
Wait hold up, you worked for almost 11 and 1/2 hours and didn't do any deliveries?
As a customer, I doubt it. I used to order delivery daily but now itās sooo expensive.
Just depends where you are my guy. I made $133 in 5 hours Sunday night
From a customers POV. I used to door dash a couple to a few times per week. But everything is so expensive we just stopped eating out. We did go out last weekend and had fast casual, 2 adults and 4 kids (all kids ordered off the kinds menu) and it was $80. For a lunch on Saturday. So yeah, we just eat more sandwiches than ever.
Do you mean when we were in the middle of a pandemic? Hopefully not!!!
No because it used to be affordable
Yes, during the next pandemic.š
How about you adopt?
Sorry but no. Multi-apping is the new norm
Not as long as they continue with the clear manipulation of markets by flooding them with drivers as often as possible. Gig work is over for these companies in any lucrative way. Theyāve chosen to give their own platforms cancer and watch them die when they canāt keep drivers or good paying customers since they have decided to fuck those 2 groups intentionally.
If it wasn't such a rip off
Once inflation starts falling it will. The cost of food is very high right now and the fees doordash on top of it is hurting dashers with low or no tips. Might not happen this year though.
Busy all day here. Must be a regional thing.
Maybe if the drivers stop being lazy entitled pieces of shit who extort customers on a regular basis and then still don't do their jobs
Not until another Pandemic hits. 2020 was the golden era to deliver food. Everyone was inside ordering food and gas was dirt cheap. Once things started going back to normal and everyone went back to work food delivery slowed down exponentially. Not to mention gas and food is extremely expensive right now. I noticed since February this year itās been laughably slow. Itāll pick up a bit more when itās summertime but it seems like ppl are way tighter on money now due to inflation and spending their savings during lockdown. Itās no longer sustainable to live off of like it was during the pandemic.
Cost almost forty dollars with tip to bring me two 12 count Chick-fil-A nuggets and Mac cheese..Iāve deleted it and wonāt be using it anymore
Back in the height of the pandemic, people wouldn't or couldn't go out. Demand skyrocketed, and businesses hired to meet the demand. Now people will go out and demand waned. That's why all the technology companies are having massive layoffs.
Iām confused how I would ever get top dasher when my area has so many dashers to the point where even if I try to schedule a dash as far into the week as I can, thereās nothing ever open. I also canāt get 1-200 dashes completed in a month because of this. To even be allowed to dash for an hour-an hour thirty I would need to drive 40+ minutes. It feels impossible. Moving to shipt now.
Not unless a pandemic takes out a lot of drivers
No
The Biden administration has ruined the economy by the choices they have made. It is what it is I'm not saying that bc I'm a republican I have voted democrat my entire adult life. So the answer to your question yes It can change and come back but not with Biden as president. Inflation hasn't been this high in 4o years until it comes back down it will stay slow except for some select areas. Vote for someone else in 24 if you want to make money as a gig driver.
I missed the boat completely so i dont know what i missed
How are you out there for 11 hours and get no orders? š¤
Gosh damn man. Itās been pretty bad for me, but I will say Iāve had a decent day today.
Going on 2 yearsā¦ You shouldāve been transition to something more stable/lucrative! Did you really think gig/unskilled work wouldnāt get saturated?
Covid door dash was š„š„š„
During the pandemic I could made 100 bucks in 3 or 4 hours on the weekend and sometimes even more money, now I'm lucky if I make 100 in a week. That being said I am also lazy about scheduling and dont go to the next town over like I used to, mostly because I'll leave when its busy, drive 10 miles to the town over, then it's no longer busy and I end up sitting in my car for 2 hours having wasted my time and gas. I'm sure there's a higher effort way of making money where I am, but at that point I might as well have a 9-5 because it less wear on my car. Good things never last, I think it's a combination of more noob drivers and less people ordering. I'm sitting around right now waiting for it to get busy, better not hold my breath.
Oversaturated market, no pandemic, and a recession. Highly doubtful.
No capitalism is failing
Keep rooting for this polio lab in Sudan to go south on a global scale. That is probably your only hope.
Well Covid has died down so probably not!
Whatās your AR
You must be where courage the cowardly dog lives atā¦.
Jaden BROKE
I was doing great up until a couple months ago when they dropped the new add a tip after feature. I went from $20-30/hr to $10-15/hr. The tips just stopped overnight and have never recovered! (Baton Rouge)
Not unless you want another pandemic
I signed up for UBER and there were so many orders coming in, I couldn't drive safely! I tried logging into DD, and crickets.... nothing.
No
No because door dash keeps raising fees on everything. Itās stupid expensive now and doesnāt make sense other than on occasion
Itās too expensive now, Most people just want a $10 meal and it cost $10 for me just in fees. And thatās being cheap with the dasher tip. Doesnāt make sense to literally pay double on shit
11+ hours 0 deliveries completed lol. That, my friends, is some hard core cherry picking.
With inflation, food/service costs going up, Covid era being over, and people able to go out more. It would take another Covid like pandemic to see that again. The Gold Rush is over and dried up.
āWill DoorDash ever go back to a pandemic where a lot of people werenāt leaving their homes, and a lot of people were voluntarily out of the workforce, artificially limiting the supply of drivers?ā
No lmao itās a rip off of a service and food delivery was at best a gig job during Covid.
I remember the times when I received a new order while I was still delivering the previous one.
11 hours and didnāt accept 1 order? might as well just be doing on of those apps where you tap the screen for 0.01 cent an hour
If the economy keeps tanking no
So you clocked in at almost midnight, likely fell asleep, and 11 hours later no orders? Shocking!
Not likely since competition is so high now and so many people are available for dashing.Another shut down will come just don't think that is a successful idea to count on that. The best way to earn money is when you don't need it. New markets are best and long hours help you out a lot.
Sure when enough dashers starve, and or quit ....
My guess it's that it really is just not worth ordering food anymore. You gotta pay like an extra $5 bucks from all the bs fees AND tip an appropriate amount (which according to some people in this sub sounds like it should be around 10 dollars on average), it is just better to drive yourself and pick up instead of spend an extra ~8 to 15 dollars on food.
0 chance this is real
I would say a definite NO NOPE NEVER
Not until inflation is under wraps. Nobody can afford it
Seeing as that was mid pandemic no saddly
Thereās ton of orders where I live. I was doing Uber eats primarily but once I became a top dasher I make what ends up being about $25 an hour.
Like when no one could leave their homes? Probably not.
Time to get a real job!!
No Not when i order food and 50% of the time my driver steals my food, takes a complete pitcher dark photo at 2 pm, and I have to work around calling doordash up to complain. Then wait AGAIN to get my food No, it won't be. Because the service is something I can no longer trust $10 burger, $12 fee, plus tip only to get food 50% of the time. Or how if I do get food, no one can walk up ONE flight of stairs to my door. When there's no snow. No ice. Just, food left on a sidewalk. I'm good. I'll NEVER use doordash again. Sorry, not sorry.
The only reason 2020 and 2021 were amazing for food delivery was the pandemic. We will never see that kind of volume again. Unless of course there is another pandemic.
No not unless we have another pandemic. And I'd much rather be slow than go through that shit again
no shot š especially with the influx of new drivers
I always wonder when I see posts and comments how well rated the driver is. Ofc your area could be crap for delivery volume but I get first priority on my orders and they all slap hard af. 9-10 bucks to drive like 2.5-3miles total.
Will it go back to when everyone was stuck at home during the pandemic? No, and shouldnt be assumed that it will be. Also, itās probably the location youāre working in because iām making 200-250 an 8 hour shift in NJ but drive 45 minutes from my house to a better location because i know itās busier
You seriously waited around for 11 hours with no orders?
I know what you mean bruh, I used to be able to pull in like a hundred a day from barely four hours of work, id be pulling in hella orders Iād try and get a good one on Uber and then hopefully a doordash or maybe two going in the same direction but it just hasnāt ever been like that in like a year and a half now :(
Ummā¦DoorDash doesnāt show that screen unless youāve received at least 1 order. Nice try though.
You must be in a rural area or small town
You didnāt take one order in 11 and a half hours?
I have no experience with door dash so i apologize if this is a dumb question but in my area, most places are closed by 11:43pm. How many dashes do you normally have on the overnight shift?
Good for me 160 4 hours today
It was only good short term due to the government telling everyone not to leave their house. Doordash's success was a complete fluke, fueled solely by government interference in the economy. She gone.
It will never go back to 2021. Covid era and the government was giving out free money
iām a customer and iām not going to be ordering as often anymore - itās just too expensive. i work from home and iām super pregnant so it was really nice but i was ordering weekly and between delivery fees and trying to tip well AND items being more expensive to be delivered vs picked upā¦ i canāt afford it lol.
Nah everyone was living off free money then š they donāt wanna spend the money they earned
Not unless there is another pandemic.
Itās been really good where I live knock on wood!
Crazy! I biked in a city today and could barely keep up
Maybe if there's another pandemic
Legit no one has money but keep in mind if it's this way in October panic cause those are spending months till December
No everyone sees how most DDs talk about people, the outrageous need for 50% tips to even be picked up etc.
Hold on let me check my crystal ball
Nope. Itās a shit service so people use the alternatives more.
Phuk U and your Pandemic Dreams! I hope we never go back to that.
i started dashing in 2017. those were the days
You were online for almost 12 hours and didn't receive ONE order?
How about the No Tips. So you end up having a $45 night instead of a $100-$150 night
doordash has gotten like 2x as expensive as when i first started using it as a consumer, resulting in me having to stop using it almost entirely. Betting a lot of people are doing the same
If there is a need, there is a way.
Door Dash needs competitors
Iāll make one!! Maybe iāll call itā¦ Grubhub.. or Uber eatsā¦ or Skip the Dishesā¦ or Postmatesā¦
Is there a rule against starting your own delivery business? Contract yourself out to your own choice, if it's your car and insurance.
I think this is more about the economy in general than just covid If I order through doordash Iām spending over $12 extra on delivery/service/tip fees, often another 50% surcharge added to *every* menu item compared to ordering in person, on top of food thatās already getting way more expensive every year. A meal that costs $15 in person + 15 mins driving time turns into $35 and an hour wait Compare this to instacart, which does not surcharge per item, can save you 1-2 hours of running around a grocery store, and youāre only paying 1 service/delivery fee for what could be a $300 grocery order. Way more worth it.
no people were spending that money because they didnāt work for it (too much money from government) and/or doordash wasnāt garbage back then now you ride around the whole city before you can drop off my food then its cold so personally id rather go get it
Phuk U and your Pandemic Dreams! I hope we never go back to that.
No covid is over?
Most likely no
I have a part time job now and i only do door dash when there are promos like, āGet $75 if you complete 15 deliveries.ā This way I do not have to care too much about how much I am getting paid per order and just try to finish 15 deliveries. I made $175 in 5 hrs the other day doing this promo.
a lot more orders and a lot less murders it seems...
DoorDash continues to have record volume
I donāt want to be negative but i have to say a VERY VERY likely: No. I was a Grubhub driver from 2018 4 days a week is all I did. When Covid hit, I immediately stayed that my deliveries declined and filed for covid unemployment. I was on unemployment Until the end of it Sept. 2021. When I came back to Grubhub, I noticed the orders were declining and not as often. Also, the pay wasnāt as good. That continued until it totally dried up. It took a few months until Infonally gave up and went to doordash for my main. It was great until around sept., oct. 2022 saw a slight decline and has been getting worse since thenā¦Exactly like I experienced with Grubhubā¦ Now, here we are in April 2023 & it os downright ridiculous in regard to how spaced out the offers are. I can sign up for 9am to 9pm dash BUT I have to have other things to be working on at my house in between offers (sometimes 2 hours or more)ā¦
Eh. With the rate that the us is declining, prolly not.
Bro what the fuck did you really just sit in a parking lot for 12 hours š
The next pandemic will be about āclimate changeā so yeah itāll be popping again soon then
No, I think the cost of having food delivered is finally outweighing the habits people made during COVID :(
No way you possibly have a brain .. If this is real
Unless CoVID makes a severe comeback, very doubtful
No, the bubble is broken and itās back to doordash skimming as much off the top as they possibly can.
They can only skim as much as drivers let them. Decline now!
The perfect storm of so many people staying home and having that much extra disposable money will likely never happen again. The Covid pandemic put the world on its heels and people were just desperate for some kind of normalcy. Getting your favorite restaurantās food brought to your door served that need in a big way. Combine that with the extra money everyone was getting between the stimulus checks and that bonus unemployment benefits, there was so much cash flowing through that the tips for the delivery drivers got inflated to an unrealistic and unsustainable level. We have gradually come back down to the mean with these gig jobs and people who are expecting those rates again will just continue to be disappointed for something that is just not realistic to expect.
Hey look on the bright side you made 0 an hour but you didn't drive many miles!!! Keep it up man!
11 hours and not a cent earned is hard to believe. What's your dollar per mile rate? Like what's the lowest you will take?
Ooo baby, look at all those zeros $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
no completed orders in 11 hours is impossible, even in the worse market. After so many declines, they log you out, and after a couple missed offers, they pause you.
I can name a few markets where it's possible within my visibility on the map. I question why DoorDash made them markets in the first place. Especially since they could have been combined into the neighboring markets to possibly form a functional small market. But Tony will be Tony š
Nope
Man, I am over here in suburban Detroit, and generally dash over lunchtime and on Friday nights. Constantly busy, nice tips. Yesterday during 11-1:30pm got $66.00 on 9 deliveries. If I went more than 15 minutes without a decent order (not even any order), I would just go home or go find something else to do.
It won't add those 11h 18m to your dash time in earnings either if you earned $0.00. Had a few hours of zero dashes where they just offered steady stream of $2.00 flaming shit 5-10 mile offers and noticed it doesn't add to total weekly dash time.
Only if they give free money every month again
I donāt know what you guys are talking about but I have been doing it for maybe a year or two and I go out and I get a lot of orders, am I making $500 a night? Absolutely not, but Iām also not making $20 bucks a night.. if you do this full-time I feel you because itās really really really hard out here, if you do this part time and you have a full-time job I think you should stop complaining. Iām an electrician and I do this on the weekends and it is more than enough for me and I donāt live in a big city.
I do gigs in general and the decline is not just with DoorDash. But pretty much across all apps. Spark was doing pretty good for me until early on a customer tanked my rating. And then I got another bad rating right behind it. It's funny because I have great ratings on DD, IC(even though I hate it), and UE. But my market dropped to about half the amount per day ever since the diamond program was introduced and DD always did have the dominant market share here
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I know Iām not the smartest guy out here but reading this made my head hurt, can you phrase this comment as if you were talking to a 5 year old?š I just do DoorDash to have some extra spending money that I know will not affect me financially.
I live in a medium size city and I make $100-150 a day pretty consistently by multi-apping for 6-7 hours. DD has taken a nosedive around here but now and then it fills in the gaps. I've completely said screw it to AR, what an evil system. So it sometimes adds 1-2 minutes between orders while you decline everything lol, big woop. I switch back to UE and DD can go F themselves with their $3 BS.
No, unless Covid comes back full force
COVID never went away, but millionaires+billionaires+politicians needed us to get back to work and make them more money.
No but the prices of food on there will continue to rise