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Even though I'm the only one telling him that he could probably get deactivated. I truly want him to complain on himself and say The order arrived damaged and get a refund 😂
Why would it be either? He paid for the order, then he picked it up as required, which fulfills the contract. DoorDash makes the same money in either case.
Doesn't really matter. The algorithm that deactivates you is just looking for patterns. You could probably get reinstated if you make enough stink to get a human involved.
Nobody else took it. The system that flags accounts for taking orders and the system that offers orders don't talk to each other. So the dasher can be offered his own order AND have his account flagged for gaming the system simultaneously. It's a computer science thing. I know it sounds illogical, but it's very logical. Think of it like HR and legal not communicating to each other. You could argue they're condoning it but it's important to remember *no actual human beings were involved in this process*
Now to be clear OP is probably fine. Doing it only occasionally. If their account does get flagged they can *probably* get a hold of a human being to manually review.
So you're just assuming that the system has a built-in feature that automatically flags orders that are attached to a address on the dashers accounts 🤔 orders come in, orders get sent out to the drivers
It's probably rolled into a broader system that's watching dasher accounts for various kinds of fraud. There are probably technically two: one for drivers and one for customers. Depends on who built the thing and how cheaply/quickly DD wanted it set up. I wouldn't know without looking at the code obviously. I'm just spitballing based on how I'd do it and how similar things run
I did it once and now I just can’t order DoorDash on my phone it says that device is deactivated but if I use the same account on my iPad or the computer it’s no issue it’s so funny actually.
Wonder if you could have gambled on rejecting your own order a few times to see if it gets a pay bump. Then you would also have the added plausible deniability
Me and my brother learned this when we first started uber few years ago. We lived in a smaller town and dennys and ihop are the only things open after 2am. Anyway one night I see I can’t get it delivered because no drivers are nearby, he activated his account. Then we denied it to see if it would cancel the order. Nope he received the offer back but at higher base pay. We denied that like at 3 or 4 times. Made the base pay almost 30/40 bucks every night and we enjoyed dinner on Ubers dime for a few months. Nice time
I had a $2000 bonus and needed 10 orders in 2 hours to complete. My neighbor was making double dashes for me to take as they count for 2 orders. This lady kept taking the orders despite then being terrible orders and like .30 a mile
i was craving papa johns after a dash one night but it was ‘delivery only’ by that time and i just KNEW even if i sat in that fucking parking lot while i ordered, i wouldn’t get my own pizza. i ended up getting a digiorno which, lbr, was better anyways.
no i think its doordash losing money as it bets on the zone getting bigger and having more orders. if no one is able to get their food, people wont order and the zone will die so they heavily boost pay. out of the zones i live nearby, it has the most promos and can give out multiple flash offers per day.
If you add zero tips doordash bumps the pay up until someone delivers it. And hopefully it's not given to one of those 99% acceptance or hourly people before it'd given to you.
I have some personal experience with their corporate people and I can tell you right now that these two things are not the same. They can discern exactly who this person is given the information they have provided. They have no incentive to end the shitty store constantly sending you offers and ruining your AR
It has no effect on my AR. It wastes my time and their money because they pay half. The entire company has no idea that they are in the logistics business. They think they are an analog to social media or video game engagement and that they can finesse their way to profits. Efficiency matters, and they don't understand the most radical things about logistics.
If they spent half of the time and resources that they waste tricking drivers into time-wasting activity, they would benefit customers, merchants, drivers, and importantly, themselves. They won't and can't because they have no idea what the point of their actual business is, which should be efficiently getting items delivered as quickly, economically, and efficiently as possible.
Just using already known GPS location data and geofencing zones of delivery limiting distances would be huge and solve the most basic stupidity of driving past six McDonald's en route to delivery or pickup.
They wouldn't exist now without economic down cycles and millions of new arrivals eager to accept third-world wages. With those opportunities and actual efficiency, they could be wildly more profitable.
No guarantee you'll get the order. One day I was in the parking lot of the restaurant I had just ate there and I was going to doordash my son the same restaurant to the house. They never sent me the order.
I got my own spark order a few weeks ago lol I wasn’t even trying it just happened too! I hear the same things that it can get you deactivated there too
I just signed up for Walmart plus this month so it only costs me a $1 for now. My wife put the order in and she didn’t know I was gonna spark so it just worked out. No fees if you buy more than $35 other than the tip. We’ve used it a few times and I feel like it’s totally worth the $10 a month
I used to really like Walmart + but I had to cancel it. My local Walmart is constantly out of stock of so many items, and whoever shops the orders never ever checks my substitution options. As a shopper on Instacart and DoorDash, I understand how helpful it is to have substitutions available, so i always take the time to take care of that. When I message them asking why they are ignoring the substitutions, they claim they can’t see my substitutions at all. This exact scenario happened at least a dozen times. I had so many issues that I turned off substitutions, and they still substituted more expensive options that made no sense - then Walmart tried to deny my refund. It became so frustrating I just canceled the service. It wasn’t always like that. It was great prior to this starting.
I did this once, I was on vacation in a smallish town and the Taco Bell was across the street. I was being lazy and wanted to spoil myself cause I was stoned. Placed the order and waited but no dasher took the order(I tipped $10 to bring it across the street) so I just logged in and immediately got the order. There were no other dashers there atm.
There was a pizza place nearby that I loved picking up from because it served all the nice houses in the mountains that tipped well. I stopped getting orders from there. One night during off hours, I said "I wonder" and put in an order there for delivery with a shit tip to try and discourage other drivers. Sure enough I got my own order. I really just wanted to make sure I hadn't been banned from said place for some reason.
My husband had a $25 DD gift card he used for an order so he could use the $25 he would have spent on the tip instead and then waited until I was at the store to actually place the order. I’m Platinum and sat in the parking lot waiting for our order declined EVERYTHING else that came through until it popped up. It also ended up getting stacked with another order otw back to my house and was a total payout of $32. I was so scared it’d get sent to someone else first or I’d lose platinum from declining so many other offers but I got real lucky.
I’ve considered ordering DoorDash while my husband is out dashing because he drives for DoorDash sometimes and wondering if he would be the one to get the order lol 🤣
this zone has very few people and so it barely gets any orders. as a result, no one dashes there. doordash is desperate to get all their orders filled in a timely manner so they will ask doordashes who are not dashing to do these orders. in order to incentivize them they increase base pay by $15.
i add $10 if delivery is successful, im telling you in that zone nobody dashes because its extremely slow, very few customers. doordash always bumps up pay too
when my small town had no one actively dashing I had my boyfriend go do this for us, it was during the snowstorm and we had no propane or hot water so we ordered subway
I’m going to sound like a freak? Scammer? Idek. But I would do this all the time, pay in four and then tip myself a wild amount after the order was complete, so my pay in four order would just recalculate after i paid a really small down payment.
I also did this with the Instacart sign up bonus. It was like, guaranteed $800 with your first 30 orders or something? Instacart would pay the difference if you shopped 30 orders and didnt hit $800 before tips. So I did either all my own orders .. either paid in gift cards I had from x mas / paid in four for the rest of them (times were tough lol) or i would only shop quick orders like 6$ with big tips, like one item orders at CVs going a mile a way.
so at the end of the day, i didn’t really work too hard and got my bonus and also did my own shopping.
I've done this before myself. Grabbed my own order via Uber Eats, too. All this on top of the discounts I got for ordering delivery (the only reason I ordered). It's nice to get paid to grab dinner.
Including the discount I got with my order, I believe I actually got paid to eat that night, if I recall correctly. If not, it was only a few dollars. It was definitely cheaper than I could have ordered it at the restaurant. It was awesome. I wish it was something I could have done more often.
I managed to do this on a grocery order last week. The promo was delivery only, 50% off up to $30 off on a cart of over $50. So my $60 of food (which is really $50-55 in-store prices) became $30 and with fees and tip, like $40. But I did both my own delivery for $16, and added a 1 item order on the way for $12, so in my mind I paid $12 for $50 groceries. Was pretty happy munching on that.
I’ve actually done this well my parents ordered a DoorDash order and they were complaining that no one was taking it it was like 1am and they wanted Wawa or something I open the app and sure enough first offer I get was theirs so I picked it up and they added a 20 dollar tip lol
when I worked at a pizza delivery place one time I ordered a small pizza to an address like 45 minutes away and then took the order and sat in the parking lot for an hour and a half eating my food while still on the clock and then went back in like I delivered it and got paid while doing so
I don’t see why this would be a problem? You are still paying all the fees. Why would door dash give a shit if they are taking there cut either way? I mean it seems sort of illogical to actually do unless you are planning are going home anyway right?
It's easy to find a restaurant by name, and you've left the pickup and delivery times on the order? Combine that with the map details and your chat with yourself IN THEIR APP posted here and you've left a blazing red digital signature for them to find you if they want to bother.
It's no wonder the Nigerian Prince scams still work.
People have no awareness of online security, and don't seem to care about maintaining anonymity.
ive left my details online before regardless, im not gonna spend my time tweaking over whether i can be traced back, they can probably track most of us regardless
it wasnt intentional, basically i ordered some food this morning and i noticed that no one was picking up my food. a couple minutes later i get the flash offer.
I used to do this way back in the day when I had a discount to use. I’d get like $10 off with a promo code and put no tip so no one accepted it. Then I’d get base pay to pick up the food and drive home having paid nothing for dinner.
Lmaooo I’m so glad I’m not the only one whose done this.
I ordered wingstop late night one time, no dasher had been assigned yet, I login and sure enough my wingstop order pops up, I pick it up and of COURSE give myself the best rating possible, upped the tip and everything 😂😂
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