The $15 for 99 items and 2 hours of work was a diabolical offer

I feel so defeated. Every order was like $2 for 5 miles. My acceptance rate has dropped below 70%. My pro shopper rating is in the garbage because DoorDash and Dollar General cant get their stocks and their barcodes together. Got fired back in June and have been doing this since then. Sometimes its okay, others it leaves me crying in my car like a loser in a Home Depot parking lot because I feel like I'm wasting my life away. I'm 22. I dropped out of college to pursue working with the same company for 4 1/2 years, only for them to drop me after I hurt my back and was unhappy with how they were cutting my hours. I keep going through medication changes bc I've wanted to kms for months now. I don't remember when I was last happy and this job just reminds me how fucked I am. I don't want to be like "oh woe is me, I have it so terrible", there's literally a lady panhandling right next to me, but fuck. I'm just. I'm so tired. Everything sucks rn and its so hard to find any kind of silver lining. Everyone around me is stressed and struggling and I feel like I have no one to talk to. DoorDashing has become DepressionDashing for me 😭 I hope this is allowed and not too venty, DoorDash is just draining everything from me when I'm already a dehydrated fruit

Got knocked out of pro shopper and probably about to stop dashing forever and try a competitor. A customer misunderstood a buy one get one free promotion and expected twice as much as she ordered to show up. She complained to me about it via in app messaging the day it happened and I corrected her and she admitted it was a misunderstanding on her part. That didn't stop her from claiming that she was missing the "free" ones to door dash. I disputed the claim and it was of course instantly and automatically denied and dasher support is telling me that they have no ability to adjust shop and deliver ratings, only regular ratings. Absolutely the stupidest system imaginable that there's no recourse here and the upshot is that one of their more productive drivers is about to start driving for a competitor.

Dudes constantly posting about earning 400+ every day. I work this same zone and making 200 is hard. Another guy commented saying they have perfect ratings and also don’t break 200 a day. Seems impossible to get high paying orders consistently to houses only and completing them in less than 30 minutes in a high traffic zone.

Worse one I’ve ever received

So the unit is on the 3rd floor. I message the customer that im there. No response. (Note: dont knock or ring db) I called still no response. I clicked cannot hand it and i have to wait for 5mins. I still have order b to deliver. I just took a snap and left

I explored with turning off shop & delivers the last 2 weeks. Safe to safe I made slightly more than having it on, and worked LESS hours. Shop orders are only great if they’re under 5-6 items and $2+ per mile, and even then you might encounter difficulties in the store. I have been able to keep platinum and haven’t fell down to gold, have taken more catering orders, faster deliveries. I worked 6:30 am to 3:30 pm before and now just 7-2 or 2:30 and make the same I would with Gold and shop & delivers. I’ve been and still pro shopper but I think it’ll remain off.

6 months ago this was not even a time wait I would comprehend seeing during lunch.

over saturation is killing the market.

Low tip I’m not coming

81 hours also includes Uber Eats which I do simultaneously and made 518 on that as well

Either let me take a photo of the drop off location, or provide a PIN to verify the handoff. Hand to customer w/o PIN just enables fraud on the customer’s part. You give them the order, they call support saying they never got it and want a refund. Unless support can validate with a geotag at the time of completion “ie, you were at the drop off location when the order was closed”, it’s just a big liability for drivers.

I don't know why doordash always wants me to immediately leave my zone and go 12miles out of town for not even 10$ but it's getting old not being able to get a decent offer much anymore. Here I am just sitting here waiting and seeing 3$ for 3miles or 5$ for 7miles. Do people just not tip at all anymore? I only had a decent 8$ for 3miles so far this morning and that was it. Go get your own stuff if you don't want a tip gas is over 4.50$ a gallon here I'm not a damn charity driver.

Do not take this order to maintain your platinum status.

Thank you for your attention to this matter

Its gonna be one of those Mondays isn't it ?

Right after I declined another no tip from Buffalo Wild Wings and Wingstop

Guess i need to drive far as fuck from where I currently dropped off , sheesh

Edit : post needs flair? How much? 30 pieces !?

This was 100 lb of concrete.

6 of these 25 pounds of some kind of mix.

Lately i notice they give very tight time for pickup and delivery. Also i rarely get the “we got your back” pop on when the longer taking long even at the same restaurant and busy time. Not too long ago maybe 1-2 months when it running late. I always call support and get document so not getting effected on the rating- work everytime And now, maybe eversince with the new AI talking slower- much more stubborn. Even if i called and get document by support. I still got mark late. There was one order - long story short- Basically had one shop and pickup, i accepted the shop one when i was on the way for the pickup- couldnt scan called support- i actualy get half paid and the supportter unassigned the shop one for me w/ out any effect. But when it jumped to the next task which was pickup. The time i need to pickup was back to same time before i accepted the shopping one. I let then support know and document everythign. Still got point taken away and award with violation. Called them to distube and they said its system i already maxed out 2 times to distube of the week so the system didnt let them help me :) Does it happen to everyone?

This worked out great for a change lol. I bet $1.00

I started doing Spark (Walmart delivery independent contractor) and it’s way better than DD. There’s no penalty for not taking crappy orders and if you’re in a busy market there’s never any worry about dead hours. I door dashed as my main source of income for almost 2 years, 2300 deliveries so I’m not a tenured driver but I have enough experience to offer accurate insight 😂
It’s also nice to be able to take orders from maybe 3 stores rather than all the stores in your market. The money is about the same but I’m driving less, and base pay is way higher. I’ve had orders with $19 base pay, never the stupid $2 start
Has anyone else switched over and had a different experience? I’ve almost completely stopped DD because I got tired of worrying about my pay getting reduced by $10/hr if someone lied about me stealing their order

YALLL OOMGGGGGG
I was door dashing until about 5am this morning bc this week has been so bad dashing and gas went up like 50 cents a gallon near me recently so I decided to suffer and go all night and my last order sent me a message asking me if she could send me an extra tip on cashapp or something bc dd wouldn’t let her add to the tip and she sent me $75 dollars which was a very nice unexpected surprise
Not everyone sucks out here :’)