u/jecates

Maybe it's just my area, but at least half of my TooGoodToGo orders have had to be refunded. I've had some places tell me they are out of bags/boxes when I get there. I've had employees tell me they don't even know what TooGoodToGo is. I've had stores close before the scheduled pickup time and there's nobody there to give out their bags/boxes. I always get my money back, but I'm always driving out of my way to go pick something up and it's extremely frustrating. And even the couple I've been able to pickup sometimes have issues. A bag full of packaged foods that all expired a couple weeks to a couple months earlier. I had a "bakery" bag that was supposed to have 6-8 bakery items in it and it was just one deli cake and a box of mass produced butter cookies. I had another that just had a bunch of bottles of different brands of seltzer. I've had two orders that I actually thought, "that was worth it".

Are stores held accountable for misrepresenting their goody bags, closing early, not having any available to meet the number of orders they sold, etc? Does anyone else even experience this, or am I just the unluckiest buyer?

I tried this tonight just to see if it's worth doing when orders are coming in slowly. I only held out for 2 orders.

The first order was $13/hr+tip for 4.9 miles with something like an 20 minute estimate. It was DQ which is always horribly slow to get Dasher orders out so I thought "nice, I'm getting paid to wait!" Total time was 18.5 minutes. Tip was actually decent, $6 so total pay was $10.01 for 4.9 miles ($2.04/mi) and 18.5 minutes (~$32/hr). So I thought, "hey this might be pretty good".

Next order was $13/hr+tip for 12.5 miles, 28 minute estimate. It's 8 miles back to an area with restaurants. Immediately I knew there's no way this offer is going to be worth it. But I accept because I thought you couldn't reject EBT without getting kicked off (although I think I figured out afterwards you can reject at least one offer without ending your dash). $0 tip. For maybe the first time ever, Taco Bell had the order to go as soon as I walked in (which I took to be a giant red flag, meaning the order has been passed over by literally every available driver for long enough that it's just sitting there). Total active time for the order was 20 minutes - the amount of time it took me to drive 12.5 miles plus a minute for pickup. I got paid $4.28 for that bullshit. And still had to drive 8 miles to get back to where I would get more orders. All told, that was $0.20/mi and $8.50/hr.

So ... how does this ever work out favorably for the driver? There are people who do it and say they make money - are they just lying (to me and/or themselves)? It basically worked out exactly how I expected. You get stuck with the long distance no tip orders, so you're really just working for minimum wage while putting tons of miles on your car.

I'm a customer, not a driver. I've had two deliveries recently where the delivery picture was the driver holding the package out the window with my house in the background, and then marking the package as left on/near the porch, but they put it in my mailbox. Is this normal and okay? Personally I find it a little annoying that I have to get dressed and walk out to my mailbox to get it (I know, first world problems, it's not a huge deal). I don't think it rises to the level of "I need to complain about this", but I also don't want it to become the norm, either.

EDIT: Unanimous opinion so far seems to be they shouldn't be doing this and I should report it, so that's what I did. CS Agent treated it as a pretty serious violation. Escalating a report on the driver for coaching and retraining, and adding a $15 credit to my account.

After 7 months of CRH, looking through $648 worth of nickels, just shy of 13,000 nickels, I finally found a 2009-D. I have found many V nickels, buffaloes, and even several war nickels. But this bugger has been the empty spot in my folder that bothered me the most.

Story Time.

A few months ago, I had a stacked order. I take the first delivery and drop it off, and head to the second location. The second location was a childcare facility and the door is locked, so the delivery notes say to ring the bell when I arrive (hand to customer). So I'm walking to the door and reading the delivery note, I hit the button to ring the bell, and then noticed - I had the wrong restaurant bag in my hand.

I've already rung the bell and see someone walking to let me in. I have no idea how to handle this, I've clearly dropped this customer's food off at the 1st stop. In the 2 seconds I had to contemplate this before the door opened, I kind of decided I'll "notice" my mistake when I hand her the bag and she says "this isn't what I ordered", apologize, and take the hit to go back to the restaurant and buy her lunch.

Except she didn't say anything. She thanked me and walked away. I kept expecting a message, but neither customer ever contacted me about the wrong order. And here's where it gets awkward.

About 15 minutes later, I get an order, pick it up, and realize I'm delivering to the same childcare facility. I look at the name and realize it's the same customer. I get there and the same woman comes and gets her bag of food. And STILL SAYS NOTHING. I just pretended everything was normal and I regularly deliver two lunches to the same person 20 minutes apart.

I know, in retrospect, I could have (and should have) handled this differently, but in the moment, I guess I panicked. The worst (best?) part is I got decent tips on ALL THREE orders, including the re-order.

And somehow, neither of these customers appear to have reported an issue to DD, because I never got a CV for it. My assumption is the first customer was stoked to get a better lunch and didn't complain. The second customer took it on the chin as "things happen sometimes" and just let it go and placed another order.

I added three items to my closet this morning, and all are saying inactive. I've tried activating them individually on the iOS app, on a browser on my PC, and then activating in bulk in the browser. Each time it says successfully activated, but then I reload my closet and those three items are still inactive. Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong. First new items I've added since they rolled out the inactive update.

In February my base pay was always at least $2.75 up to $3.05 for short drives. In early April I noticed it was regularly showing up at $2.40. Last week I saw a lot of $2.25. And this week they’ve almost all been $2.05. I’m talking about base pay only, not peak pay, for drives under 4-5 miles. Is anyone else seeing this? Is DD subsidizing their gas relief plan by reducing base pay?