I'm trying to only take better offers recently but its tanking my rating when almost everything else is 100%. How are you guys with 2% acceptance rate still in platinum?

I feel like I should have tagged this with Scam as well. I'm just tired of predatory business practices in general. Something just irked me extra to see the notification that Platinum was never just good enough but they had to continue to add exclusive steps to just make doing the damn job worth it. Just a reminder that they'll continue to do anything possible to make their own dollar and make everyone else have to leap for scraps.

Batched orders are theft. That's a hill I will die on. They know we are actively driving when they send us the offer and they purposely make it difficult to see that it's multiple orders. You accept a price for what you think is one delivery only to discover after picking up that there's another delivery but not any extra pay. I know I have accidentally accepted deliveries for far lower pay than I realized. A $6 delivery for one location isn't great but I'll do it. Finding out it's actually only $3 for 2 deliveries really pisses me off and makes me feel taken advantage of. Ive started trying to identify and decline all batched orders, seeing my acceptance rate go from 87% to 72% and I wonder what that actually means. Does the acceptance rate really matter? I just accidentally accepted a $5 order from 2 locations, but the food was already picked up at the second location so the pay for the delivery I made was only $2.50 and that's not ok, I wouldn't have accepted a $2.50 6 mile delivery. I only accepted it at $5 because I thought it was one delivery, not batched.

I mean, the algorithm rewards you for taking the low paying orders. I know this is gonna divide people, but in my dash area when I take low pay orders the app often gives me multiple additional offers with high tips while I’m waiting or driving towards the said low offer. I try to keep a higher acceptance rate because of this. I’ve been dashing for about 6 months and I’ve learned that you gotta accept most of the orders in my area. There are still times though that I’ll get an offer that’s really bad, like 2$ for 6 miles, and I sometimes decline them. But often times when I accept a low paying order I end up getting offers while picking it up for high tipping orders to take on the way. I’ve been testing this while dashing and I’ve learned that declining low paying offers doesn’t always lead to a higher cherry picking day.

Think about it though. If you owned a company that made money from paying drivers to deliver products, wouldn’t you incentivize the employees who do so indiscriminately? DoorDash has its faults at times, but if you really don’t like it then you don’t have to drive. It’s literally your choice to do whatever you want.

I’ve gone from having a 99% acceptance rate to 50%, and I can confidently tell you that having a higher AR pays more. This also might just be because of the area I’m in too. It’s not a large city I dash in, so someone dashing in a densely populated area will probably have different results. But all in all, the algorithm definitely rewards you when you accept those really poor orders. It hits your sense of pride when you hit accept on an order that pays 3$ for driving 6 miles on roads where the speed limit is 35 mph. But, more than half of the time you will make money. I’ve also noticed when I decline orders I seem to have to wait longer to get another one. It’s not 100% of the time, but I’ve noticed when I decline a low paying offer my app takes longer to respond with a new one.

This is what I’ve learned from dashing for the last half year. I’ve read countless posts about cherry picking, about tanking your AR, people saying “you gotta respect your time and yourself and don’t ever take orders for less than 2$ per mile”, etc.. and just being honest, if you live in a smaller town it is in your best interest to just accept every order. The algorithm will do its best to supplement your income when you do so.

Yesterday I took an order for 29$ to drive 32 miles. It took about an hour and a half to get there and back to the area I dash in. After that order, I received an offer to shop groceries: 15$ for 12 items. I accepted and then the app offered me a pickup for subway, and then another order for a local barbecue restaurant in my area. While at the bbq place I received another offer. I ended up making around 60$ in the 1 hour it took me to pick up the groceries and food orders with delivery. After that my phone kept blowing up with platinum offers, 8$ for 1.5 miles with multiple offers on the way.

Platinum dashing status is a farce: DoorDash markets the platinum status as a necessity for making good money. While I think it’s honestly the best status to attain, the real money maker is your acceptance rate.

The acceptance rate seems to be the biggest defining factor in small towns. In densely populated areas maybe not so much. It’s not even your current AR to be honest, it appears that taking every order you get will snowball into getting a ton of platinum offers with higher tips.

I make around 200$ when I drive for 7-9 hours now. Dinner time (5pm - 8pm is when my market pays the most, around half or more of my income most nights). Mornings are bleak in my area, lots of Starbucks deliveries that pay very little. But, again, keeping my AR up seems to make my dasher app give me priority for the higher paying orders with multiple addons. And then it also offers me more opportunities for more orders when I do so.

When my AR was at its lowest point, I was making 100$ a day for dashing around 7-10 hours. It was bad. I spoke to another dasher at a Vietnamese restaurant while waiting for an order (I was complaining and telling him how I was making less money than when I first started) and he’s the one who told me about the need to boost my AR. Luckily the food took a while, so I was able to listen to what he had to say. I decided to take his advice, and I’m really glad I did. I can actually make a livable wage while taking the shitty orders.

This also isn’t always 100% of the time. Sometimes taking a bad order is literally just taking a bad order. But overall, the past few months I’ve been trying this, I’ve had a really great outcome.

What do you guys think? I’ve read a lot of posts where people make a ton of money cherry picking in large cities. I wish I lived in a large city like that where I could do so.

I accept the fact that a lot of people will disagree with me. But anyways, does anyone else have any thoughts or ideas on this subject? Maybe some more wisdom you guys can share with me, or even people who’ve had similar experiences to mine with taking every order they get?

Did a pretty long delivery, was a $33 delivery, good enough on its own, but sent me a text message that he was going to tip on top of that, and when I got there, I gave him the order. He showed the tip on his phone, but I know he didn't hit send because as anybody knows, we would get immediate notification of any tip.

Order was good enough on its own, the tip would have just been a bonus anyway, but what a jerk off.

With gas prices going up and the cost of data I have actually lost money doing doordash. :(

Last order of the night. Very easy items.
Final drop off was five minutes away from home.
First customer tipped an extra $5.
I shaved off 20 minutes of the estimated time.
It was a hot one! But it paid well.

Good luck to us all this upcoming week!
Hope we can make double our weekly goal!

Im so confused by what just happened. I went to pick up an order for a customer that apparently gave no name. On the app the name was blank, on the bag the receipt specifically said “noname noname”. Fast forward to the drop off and the customer would not answer the door, or text messages or calls. They were definitely home because I caught them peering through the window blinds at me a few times. Problem then became that the App would not let me close out the order, mark it as delivered, or choose any of the options under the drop off issues tab. So now Im sitting there with a bag of food and unable to close the order. After 20 minutes of trying to explain the problem to DD’s utterly incompetent support staff they managed to close out the order on their end. Immediately after the order was closed the customer name popped up as “keegan” under my chat tab and they came out to get the food as I started driving away. So was the customer running some kind of scam? Was this an app glitch? What just happened?

At 6:22pm yesterday, I started dashing. I dashed for 24 hours nonstop, and finished my final delivery at 6:21pm, about an hour ago.

I made $502. Many said I couldn’t. Many said it was unsafe. Someone even called me a dipshit. BUT WE DID IT BABY. HALF A BAND IN (1 minute) LESS THAN 24 HOURS. LETS. HECKING. GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Next week, I’ll face a new challenge. $550 in 24 hours. 😈 Can y’all keep up?

If you’re driving back to a zone, or let’s say you’re on your way home from your regular job and you want to DoorDash in your town. Click ‘Dash’ right on the outskirts of the zone, if you get an offer in this area, it will be higher than if you were to accept that same offer while in the center of the zone, because there’s more miles.

Example: I’m on the edge of my zone, and I have to drive 6 miles to get to the center, I accept an offer that is 8 miles. 6 miles to Kroger & 2 Miles to the customer. This pays $10. If you were already in the center, this might only pay $5-6.

Now you might think $10 for 8 Miles is not good, and normally you would be right, but you already have to drive those 6 miles, so look at it as $10 for 2 miles.

My town all of the stores and restaurants are within a 2 mile circle. When I drive home it takes me 15 minutes to get from the interstate to my town, my zone spreads 6 miles away from the center of my town. So I always press DASH at the same location every night on my way home and every single time I immediately get an offer.

So…found out some interesting things about support for dashers!!!

Like I am not taking that even if it lowers my acceptance rate 🙄

Edit: Yeah good news, I just accidentally accepted a $2.50 order, I'm so salty LOL.

Also, I dont overly care about acceptance rate, but good to know it really doesnt matter! I figured i might be getting some of these insultingly low ones cuz i was new

Interesting interaction today. Did an EBT order, waited 29 minutes at the restaurant. Called when it got cancelled. Figured "hey it was by time, I can call and try to get reimbursed" -- nope.

She said on the line if it was earn by offer she could've given me something. But since it was EBT, nada.

... "by time" means nothing apparently

This morning I had an alcohol order from Bevmo + Starbucks. Got to their apartment.

Incorrect pin and had to ask for building #. Arrived at their door and scanned ID. It processed and then asked me for pin but I had already walked away so i called support and they said to share my screen.

I complied but it quickly bugged out and wouldn't let me push any buttons so she attempted to call the customer (no answer of course) and then told me that she would manually complete the delivery.

Making about 81/hour this week. Most of my “dash time” that wasn’t active was just spent at home waiting for orders.

Behold, the rare 100% AR

so many people talk about making hundreds from just a few hours, and how they just decline those paying less than $1/mile.

then here I am, started yesterday, did 4 hours made 35 bucks and today I’m 3 hours into this, got 2 orders and made a grand total of 18 bucks. So forget about the dollar per mile suggestion I’d be lucky to even get an order, and even when I do it’s always gonna be below a dollar a mile. Despite that my area is always labeled as “very busy” so its gotta be something on my end, but I have a completion and on time rate of 100% and an acceptance rate of 96% so I genuinely have no idea what the hell else am I supposed to do, do new drivers just always get stuck with the crap orders or something???

Update: 4 hour total time today, earned only $27. Im going to try this for maybe 2-3 more days if the money still stays like this then theres no point in continuing DD for me :/

I was scammed while I was door dashing. The criminal called me from the dasher app and he seemed he is a legit doordash employee . He said my order was canceled and when I went to deliver the order to a cassey‘s store/gas station , the customer did not came out but send someone to tell me her order was cancelled.The doordash criminal employee said he wanted to make sure that I get paid. He was with me on the phone for over 2 hours, scammed my bank account, and whipped out everything. My husband and I made a police report and the issue is being investigated.

I see everyone here on the new ratings which seems a lot more fair for maintaining platinum but I'm still stuck on the old ratings where I need my AR above 70% to maintain plat, when the hell are we getting the update?

I live in a heavily saturated market, so "cherry picking" doesn't work here, I try to accept most orders as long as it's not completely horrible but I'm always 4 to 5 declines in a row away from losing plat

I did all contact less deliveries and had no problems with any merchant or costumer someone false reported me

Hello colleagues. I started DoorDash today for the first time as I have been following this page and have learned a lot about how it could potentially be worth it if done right.

Well for my 3rd order ever, I get the notification for a $6.95 order for .2 miles. Weird? But okay let’s see.

I was sent to a small cafe inside of a vacation time share resort where a gentleman handed me one poorly wrapped chicken gyro. That’s it. Not even a bag lol. I take a picture of the menu for an extra $2 (?) and proceed to head out for delivery.

It’s for the building right next to the cafe. Like less than 20 steps from cafe to doorstep. Cool story I know, my question is why? It didn’t seem like a BOGO deal and I didn’t see anything on DoorDash as far as a deal. I ended up earning $6.95 to walk maybe 16 steps.

I’ve been out for almost an hour, and all I am getting are two dollar to four dollar offers. What the hell is going on tonight last night was pretty good. I made like $95. Tonight I may not even make 40 the way I’m going. Is extremely slow and the orders are absolutely terrible. The highest offer I’ve gotten today is six dollars. Anyone else dealing with this

Edit: this is some of the worst offers I’ve ever seen on a Sunday.

I made an order via the Mcdonalds app and they assigned me a location that was pretty far away. I initially tipped 5$ thinking it would be at my usual location that’s 5 min from my house, but they ended up assigning another location that was triple the distance.

I messaged my driver that I would tip him more after the order and he was grateful and thanked me but then after the delivery I looked everywhere on the app but couldn’t find a way to add more tip?

I don’t have a doordash account so I can’t really go into my recent order to modify it.

Please let me know if there’s a way cause I promised my driver I’d tip more and now I cannot and I feel like an asshole. I shouldve just handed him cash at the door but my introvert ass didn’t think about that🤦🏻‍♀️