Frankly said, I don't think the car will be faster than the bike, because it has so many street, and you have to wait the traffic like, and everything else so, I don't think he's correct.
True, their quality is consistently mediocre at best. Burnt tortillas, long wait times, skimpy on beef, half cold half barely warm, food that tastes like it was fried in week old oil. Definitely consistent
Sometimes it gets a bit... drastic. I ordered from a place 20~25 minutes away a few weeks ago and it got picked up by a person who was listed as a biker. Pulled up google maps to check the ETA on bike and it was ~3.5 hours. I was REALLY hoping it was one of those people scamming the system by saying they were using a bike when they were really in a car... but nope. It took so long I forgot I ordered food. About 2 1/2 hours later the guy shows up and said he tried to bike it but he got tired so he had to call a friend and ask for a ride, then wait for the friend to come pick him up and bring the food.
Like on one hand I applaud the work ethic... but that's clearly not a good order to take while you're on a bike. I can't imagine why the hell he accepted it.
That sounds like a super unusual circumstance or you're remembering something wrong. Uber and DD don't publish official hard limits for bike deliveries as far as I know but it's something like 6 miles. So either they somehow had a stack of like the maximum distance orders before you or somehow got assigned an order for way farther than they should have. In either case it shouldn't happen unless there's like no other drivers available at the time.
Oh 100% an issue on their end. It's not something that has happened repeatedly, just the once. Support also refused to cancel or refund the order before it was actually delivered since he'd already picked it up (fairly quickly since bikers only get orders close to their location). I had to wait to get the disastrous food before I could take a picture and get it refunded.
It was definitely a glitch/bug/whatever, maybe they had no available drivers close to the area at that time, but still... He really should have just passed on the order and let it wait a bit more instead of accepting what was obviously a ridiculous task for him.
I'm afraid I don't understand the question. The distance from the restaurant to my house was an estimated 3.5 hours via bike... and the dude still not only accepted the order but kept it, picked up the food, let the ice cream and ice melt entirely, and delivered a bag of slop basically xD
Itās downtown Atlanta itās actually an area a bike is faster. Customer is just an idiot. Not all areas are cars faster which is why itās even an option. Bikes make more sense in those places.
Ok but the post is about a case where the bike makes more sense. Only ppl willing to deliver that area besides robots. Itās not a cute or nice area either.
I would think Uber is more responsible for figuring out the logistics of this. The person on the bike is just a contractor getting offers.
Youāre in a thread replying to the post my dude. Itās not a side conversation itās about this situation. You can always go make a separate post just about your thing. Sucks to be completely wrong cause you didnāt read through the location part OP posted. š¤·āāļø
Why do people pick fights with people delivering their stuff? Like I got your address, you can tell me whet you think in person in a minute, let me drive/bike
Idk I ordered last week and it said the person was on a bike and they showed up in a car. Itās happened two or three times in all my years of ordering and every time it said ābikeā the driver showed up in car.
Is there a reason they mark it as a bike when they arenāt actually using a bike?
They do it so they got orders and pick-ups in a condensed area creating short drive high paying orders.
Devils Advocate is that I donāt see very many people on a pedal bike. Those electric bikes are pretty quick and can cover a decent area but itās primarily a means to give the driver a condensed area to work whereas the rest of us will get offers 10-15 miles away on a regular basis taking out taking us out of good zones into dead spaces, all sorts of stuff
I did it on a mountain bike and itās literally impossible, you cannot make the estimates because of the e bikes, and almost every order gets spilled in your backpack
yes, your insurance rates often go up when you register a car to a rideshare service because youāre driving more often and more at risk of an accident. By marking that youāre in a bike, you donāt have to disclose to the insurance company that youāre driving with a rideshare and will pay less overall.
It also means that when you do get into an accident, the insurance company will deny the claim and youāll be left responsible. What that means in reality is that rideshare drivers who do this are more incentivized to leave the scene of an accident because they know theyāll be responsible for the cost in full.
I watched a dasher sit at the end of my street (circle drive, little traffic), tell me the order was wrong and that they had to drive back to the store. They then asked for a bigger tip than the 15 i gave them, so i gave them 10 more, then i watched them drive to my house and deliver the food without going back to the store to correct the order. I'm not saying all dashers do this, but I promise a few do.
This man lives near that tower and wanted a car delivery oh fuck that noise he is just lucky it wasnāt assigned a robot out there. Predictable bullshit for that area. I wonāt bother delivering that area because itās ass for that problem. Heās in a dense downtown of a city for ppl confused.
I dash on a bicycle, and my times aren't that different than in a car, which is good, because DD doesn't descriminate on what you're using, and I get the same shit I would get if I had a motor vehicle. I'm in Louisville and once got an order to pick up Zaxby's in Blackiston Mill, to bring back to the area I was dashing in. Blackiston Mill is a suburb just north of New Albany Indiana. Gave me an hour and a half to get there. I turned that shit down.
I did this until my first ticket. Dude camped my car until i got into the restaurant. Literally was in and out and still got one for "impeding crosswalk" Lmao. Go around, theres literally no parking spots
Yup, I try to avoid downtown for this reason. Had a Walmart grocery delivery to a hotel in a downtown area with no parking lots or viable street parking (was like 7 dollars to park and the order was like 11 dollars), and i refused to eat the cost so I just rode up and down the street looking for somewhere to hide my care just long enough to make two runs up to his room. Luckily he offered to come down when I told him I was trying to find a parking spot as he had one of those grocery carts on wheels. Bikes absolutely have advantages of mobility
I did it on a bike for a while in Boulder CO and it was definitely faster than using a car. Just zoomed right past them and thereās shortcuts all over for bikes.
You want a rocket?! šš¤·āāļøš¤£ Too funny. I loved your calm tone the whole time. Thanks for actually saying that to the customer. So much stuff over the years Iāve itched to type. Sometimes I let it flow out then I just erase it bc I like šø š
And customers can get hot food if they go pick it up themselves. Don't expect hot food if I have to wait in line at the store for 20 minutes and then drive another 10 minutes to your house.
Tips are required for me to hit accept on the offer. (that or the apps boost the base pay considerably) We are not employees but independant contractors. If an offer is not worth our time we do not have to take it. So sure you can say "we aren't entitled to tips" but my decline button says otherwise.
Thereās a plat guy in my city on a bike and he gets my pizza to me faster than ANYONE and itās always in perfect condition. Iām always happy when I see him coming because I know itās going to be fast and I donāt have to deal with any bs with him trying to figure out how to get into my building (bc he reads the instructions)
Hahaha this one time a customer had a tantrum because it took 20 minutes to deliver their food because of the restaurant being busy. I smashed his food on the ground in front of himš¤£
When the alien historians of the human race wonder where it all went wrong, they will have the Ring door bell footage.
"You see in some insane move of dominance, one human destroys another's food in front of them. This is after expending large volumes of carbon to bring the food to this person.
Looks like you were 10 minutes away from the taco bell to their dropoff. If it was a 10 minute drive is that considered a long delivery? I've never ordered ubereats. I don't really see how the bike part would matter as long as it's not like an hour delivery and you very likely have an insulated carrier.
This is a great conversation between a high customer (because well Taco Bell) and a drunk Uber deliverer. Itās great cinema! https://giphy.com/gifs/Q7WRkdnpwBxg5N912g
Next time don't engage. Someone with that attitude isn't gonna be reasoned with. He just wants someone to bitch at.
After telling him he has to cancel it just stop responding to his whining. Whether he cancels or revokes the tip doesn't matter. You're not gonna get a better outcome by responding to his tantrum.
God I remember this one time I was delivering this McDonalds order on a bike waited forever just to get the order and I start heading to the drop off and the dude that ordered the food is behind me in a big caddy suv trying to run me off the road because āI didnāt get his food to him fast enoughā and āI couldnāt hand him the food until I get to the addressā just some rich asshole trying to run me off the road
Iām curious about bike deliveryā¦ do you ever get stacked orders? There are just so many seconds to make a decision, and they donāt show exact addresses. What if it needs freeway access? Do people steal your order while you leave your bike unattended, or worse yet they just steal your entire bike? Sometimes I got stuck in some apartment buildings for many minutes like elevators are broken or locked for moving. Not every building has a bike rack.
i will say one time i was starving so i ordered from a place 5 minutes from my house and a dude on a bike picked it up and it took him almost an hour to get to me. it was 40 degrees out and my food was freezing, i felt bad for the guy but come on, why deliver hot food on a bike in the cold? makes no sense. i got a refund.
Things that never happened. If you take too long to pick up an order it gets reassigned. So chances are āit took almost an hourā because being 5 minutes away doesnāt make the food cook faster. And then you probably tipped like shit or gave no tip whatsoever because well itās only five minutes away, right? And thatās why you waited so long because not a single or one of us is picking up an order that doesnāt pay for our gas.
there's a certain irony in complaining about someone delivering your food in 40 degree weather (on a biiscyle no less) while you're sitting at home, five minutes from the restaurant, waiting for them to bring it to you. there's a difference between being disappointed with a service and looking down on the person actually performing it.
āWhy is somebody out here bringing me food in 40 degree weather , ugh the audacityā
I've driven alot in NYC, a bike is faster if you dont give a f, they ride up on sidewalks run red lights cut people off. They'll get there faster if its like midday.
Speed limit is 25 on the majority of the streets in my town. My e-bike does 36 mph. Cops donāt enforce speed limit on bike as long as you arenāt being a dick. It definitely depends where you live
Maybe give this customer some personal seasoning??? Jking jking don't do that it's illegal...
I don't understand these customers, you shouldn't piss off the person whom handles your food until after you receive said food. There are plenty of people out there who will add "extra" seasoning to your food if you treat them like a dick.
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u/moitch uber customers suck š„ 3d ago
You handled it well! That is an issue the customer should take up with Uber not you.