r/DoorDash_Dasher

Am i the only one not getting orders in the dfw area? Im platinum. Pro shopper but barely getting an order an hour. Starting to piss me off

My business has suffered greatly and last month after paying all essential bills I had no money left for food. Due to obvious reasons I have started dashing part time in Miami. On Monday I made $65 with a total dash time of 5hrs 23 minutes while spending 3/8 of a tank of gas. On Tuesday I made $119.40 with a total dash time of 4hrs 43minutes spending less than 1/4 tank. I’m having a hard time figuring this out, any advice would be greatly appreciated. I’m driving a larger car and during the day I’m averaging 17mpg but at night I average 25+ mpg. I did my first 50 orders between Friday and Sunday and didn’t even break $400 for a total dashing time of like 24 hrs. My first day as platinum was humbling, my second day was decent but was it just a fluke? I’m still pushing my business but need cash quick so I’m doing a few hours of this every day. I’m not afraid of work, and I’m not looking to make this permanent or full time, I just need some help to get through a tough time

This is a true story. Today I was almost done dashing and with just about to end the dash but I got a dash for $22 but it was for 27 mi. I figured what the hell I had nothing better to do. So it's set to go to a place called Bloom Market.

The address was only 4 minutes away so I drove there and when I got there it was a residential house. I wasn't sure what was going on. I walked up to the front door and rang the doorbell and immediately the door opened with a woman holding a small glass vase with a bunch of wilted flowers in it and an envelope with no card in it. She handed it to me and I said oh I didn't know this was the right place and she said people always say that.

So I hit "Directions" ready to drive 30 minutes to my destination. Then I started to think to myself who would order wilted flowers in a glass vase with an empty envelope 27 miles away? So I called doordash to ask them the address that I just came from because I didn't remember. It called the pickup a restaurant and said it was somewhere in a town that was 30 miles away. The pick up I was just at and it didn't even give me the correct location.

I drove down to the house that I was delivering the flowers to and it was an empty house that was for sale. I put it on the front doorstep took a picture and left. I've tried to find this Bloom Market, I've tried to remember the address I was at, and there's nothing. It's the weirdest thing that I've ever seen.

Seems sketchy.

Had my first dollar tree order last night woah that was rough nothing in the right place everything out of stock. The store doesn’t even sell single bottles of diet coke but that was on the buy list.. never gonna take an order from that store again

I have platinum status and I still only get trash orders. It's so bad that I can barely maintain Platinum status because I have to reject most of what I get. I try to only run orders that pay out the same dollar amount as the mileage. So I have no problem running a $4 order that will be a 4-mile trip but all I get are $3 orders to run five plus miles. My wife also has Platinum status. She can go out. Doordashing and make in 2 hours what it takes me all day to make. She gets back to back $10 orders for around 5 mi or the big catering orders that are 20 plus dollars for $10 ish miles. Is there anything I can do about this? It feels like a predatory business practice like targeting people that maintain Platinum status. Are there any class action lawsuits I could jump on?

Just went to a Papa John's where I have been probably two dozen times and now they want me to sign a sheet... Anyone else have something like this I have seen like two posts about it before.

There is a rural area just north of my Home Zone that I found out has much lower acceptance rate requirements to maintain Platinum status. These people are coming down into my zone and dashing as Platinum dashers with 30 or 40% acceptance rate while I have to maintain 70%.

How can I permanently change my Dasher Zone to this small area just to the north of me?

Weekly I use between 50-90$ in gas ⛽️ and I bring in 200-450/wk

I drive a 2009 Corolla as well as a 2018 jeep renegade

I didnt realize why people hated these so much until i learned what doordash is actually doing ,

So if person A tips me good in a way im sure to take the order they pair the offer up with person B whos offer is likely a loss to the driver , throw them together so you dont see that one of these isnt like the other

How is that legal , doesnt that take away from person A's generosity, does the customer know the app is doing this ? I honestly find it quite upsetting , scandalous even !

why is dd not being sued yet for stack order base pay $2?

should be $4 base total for stack orders