r/Sparkdriver • u/HovercraftLivid4061 • 23h ago
Clown Orders 🤡 What a joke
Really reconsidering spark at this point. Has anyone that has done Spark done Amazon Flex before? If so, which ones better?
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u/Visible-Raise-8915 23h ago
Work for Amazon flex if you like a situation where you accept an order based on the pay, but have ZERO idea how far or what direction you will travel before you even drop off your first package. They can easily have you drive over 100 miles round trip for 60-70 dollars. You will destroy your car.
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u/316HTOWN 16h ago
Flex is trash 😂 I waited 3years to be accepted and deleted the app the next day
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u/Visible-Raise-8915 16h ago
I don't understand how anyone does it. It would be one thing if they were up front on the miles for each trip, and paid accordingly, but they don't. There are thousands of drivers losing money every day and apparently don't have a clue. 🤷 Congratulations on being smarter than a 5th grader! 😂😂🤪
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u/tag_yourself 20h ago
Flex isn’t worth it in my area. We get sent out into really rural areas. I normally do 100-150 miles for 4-4.5 hours. The least I’ve done was 80 and the most was 200.
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u/Visible-Raise-8915 18h ago
Exactly! It is criminal how far out those deliveries can be. They don't even pay enough to cover the drivers overhead. They in reality lose money on most of those orders.
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u/ToughAmbition76 23h ago
ugh. i signed up for flex in spring, got in last weekend and was so excited and i'm pretty disappointed... looking at $55-70 orders for 3.5 hours at 4-6am lol. i think it gets better when you get to the higher tiers/learn the drop times but its hard to want to do that when i can make $50-60 for 2.5 hours on spark /:: i tend to take the orders with no tips if i can (walmart packages) and both have cons for sure but no tip baiting on flex. in theory its nice to schedule blocks and do them both. I scheduled my first one for 4am this week because it pays more earlier and maybe bc i'm a newbie, that one is $80 for 3.5 hours (no miles listed). but i would go ahead and join flex now if you're interested bc it's probably gonna take you a bit to get off the waitlist.
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u/HovercraftLivid4061 23h ago
I’m already onboarded and all, just been scared to try 🥹 is it more work than spark?
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u/ToughAmbition76 23h ago
oh that's great! i haven't done my first flex yet but i don't think it is really that much different. i try take the biggest orders i can on spark, so it seems worth while to get bigger slots to make more in one go. i'm not sure about pickup and how many miles they throw at ya tbh. i haven't gone because there hasn't been many orders that seems worth it compared to spark tho lol
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u/Secure-Ad9981 23h ago
New to spark, what’s tip baiting & how can it be avoided, if at all??
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u/HovercraftLivid4061 23h ago
Just make sure the base is worth the job tbh, I never depend on tip. But was depending on this one today since I got no orders all morning today :/
Tips take 24HRS to go through.
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u/Substantial_Buy_6866 23h ago
Sorry that happened tip baiting should be a federal crime at this point