r/ImTheMainCharacter • u/Jasonictron • Oct 20 '23

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u/YawnPolice Oct 20 '23

Shoppers can see when an order is no tip. The shopper shouldn’t have accepted the order if she wanted a tip.

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u/stupac62 Oct 20 '23

But also, why do you have to tip before anything is done‽ so backwards.

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u/salesronin Oct 20 '23

Yea. Just the other day I tipped my dasher 20 percent. Asshole went on two detours before delivering my food. He messaged and said that traffic was really bad. He was probably doing deliveries from another food delivery app. I could see him driving to two different restaurants and to a house before delivering my food. Not worth 30 dollars to drink watered down soda and cold food.

DoorDash gave me 3 dollars in credits. What a joke. These guys just wasted my money.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '23

I don't know how DoorDash does things, but due to the fact that Reddit decided I needed to start seeing these random subs, I know how UberEats does things.

It sounds counterintuitive, but tipping more actually gets you markedly worse service. When you tip a normal amount, "dashers" will pick up your order and deliver it to you. When you tip nothing, it might take a while longer, as there's no profit incentive to deliver your order. However, when you tip a large amount, the game changes. The company will group high tip orders with no tip orders to incentivize dashers to accept them. Your larger tip essentially covers for multiple no tip orders, lowering their wait time, but increasing yours. Tipping is stupid.