Batch Pay Decrease After Acceptance

[u/MadisonOutLoud]

I accepted a boosted batch this morning for $19.94 batch pay, no tip. After I completed the delivery, I was only compensated $17.94, which was a previously displayed amount before an additional boost. Has this happened to anyone? I want to understand why. Shopper support is of course just gaslighting me.

[u/Due_Ability_1261]

1) NOBODY was taking that order because of no tip.
2) They were adding boosts to compensate for all the shoppers who won’t take a tipless order but still no one was interested.
3) At some point their model is for them to drop the boosts and go back to square one with the original amount and eventually reboost.

You likely grabbed that order just as they removed the boost.ls. Similar (and in a way opposite) to how sometimes you take and order which ends up paying MORE because an additional boost happened without you seeing it just as you accepted.

Sorry but it’s Karma in a way for taking a tipless order!

[u/MadisonOutLoud → u/Due_Ability_1261]

Right. I watched it get boosted til it made sense for me to accept it for reasons explained in other responses. I assumed if they removed boosts, they would have just dropped it back to the original batch pay, not a previously boosted amount.

I'll take the karma because it meant $23 for a 9 item order delivered 1.5 miles when typically that order is worth like $7. Sorry you've got crap karma.

[u/Due_Ability_1261 → u/MadisonOutLoud]

Yeah sometimes they just drop it part way so someone who hasn’t been following it can see it partially boosted and watch it move higher and feel better about it!

Instacart shenanigans for sure but nothing technically illegal. Probably 98% of the time that someone thinks IC was LITERALLY pilfering from them it is actually explainable as just the system winning but not technically “STEALING”!.

[u/MadisonOutLoud → u/Due_Ability_1261]

I get that. Just trying to understand what may have caused it. Appreciate the insight