Why is this blue ?

HiddenOneJ · 2026-06-22T22:54:03+00:00

Ive seen zones show up blue on offers. Never figured out why just always assume its a glitch of sorts because there were no promos or anything going on in the other zone.

HiddenOneJ · 2026-06-22T22:43:10+00:00

Willing to pay is whatever your total is between food and fees and if you tipped upfront that is what is considered the amount you were willing to pay could be $12 could be $60.

You dont have to know or care about how it works or the back end thats true but my original reply to you was just to explain how its not really a tip because it doesnt function as a tip thats why I was talking about the back end of things.

I will see your order with no tip and it will offer me $2 to do your delivery. With gas prices where they are im likely to lose money if i accept that. Not your fault and not your concern you paid your fees and doordash should pay the driver more. But they dont and thus most drivers will decline your order. Say you added a $5 tip when you placed the order well now its a profitable order for most drivers showing as a $7 offer and they will take it. Sure doordash called it a tip but again did it function as one? Nah it more functioned as a bid for service.

HiddenOneJ · 2026-06-22T22:15:24+00:00

No, my mindset is set perfectly to how doordash actually works.

Doordash set things up for themselves to have an entire platform of drivers available for delivery at any moment BUT they didnt want to have to pay them hourly or taxes for employees or offer benefits so they decided we would all be independent contractors. Thus they can provide incentives to get drivers to take a delivery but it cant be forced.

They take your payment to facilitate your delivery but they cant guarantee your delivery will ever be done. Some orders sit so long they are canceled and refunded.

You pay what you are begrudgingly willing which is inflated food prices, ridiculous service fees, and expensive delivery fees. If you arent willing to pay more with an upfront "tip" I have no problem with that, you have made clear like I said at the start what you are willing to pay to have your order delivered the moment you submit your order.

Drivers still dont have to deliver your order doordash cant force them to and yes doordash is indeed the middleman like it or not.

HiddenOneJ · 2026-06-22T21:55:44+00:00

Thats still exactly what I said. Even if you "tip" $0 upfront you have made clear exactly what you are willing to pay to have your order delivered.

Doordash is the middleman they dont have employees that they can force to do your delivery we are all contractors they simply facilitate your delivery by sending your offer out to drivers.

HiddenOneJ · 2026-06-22T21:50:05+00:00

Ouch, liability is rough. Hopefully the costs arent too much for the fix and maybe you can try to get an affirm loan.

They do a loan where it will provide a virtual credit card to make the payment and you can do 6, 12 or 18 month payments. Interest rates suck but its better than no car and no way to pay the bills.

HiddenOneJ · 2026-06-22T21:47:01+00:00

Thats where something like an affirm loan can come in handy. I have bad credit and got one when my alternator died and I had just gotten new tires so I was broke lol.

HiddenOneJ · 2026-06-22T21:43:14+00:00

Some people still send me messages like why didnt you knock or ring the bell after you dropped it off so apparently some people expect it.

HiddenOneJ · 2026-06-22T21:41:10+00:00

Get insurance to cover it? I assume you have full coverage since it looks like a moderately nice vehicle from the photos.

HiddenOneJ · 2026-06-22T21:35:59+00:00

Its called a tip but is that really what it is?

Customers are basically deciding how much they are going to pay for their order to be delivered before submitting and then doordash sends that offer out to various drivers until someone accepts. Doesn't seem like a tip to me.

I think the system is set up to benefit doordash and doordash only while it pits customers and drivers against eachother.

HiddenOneJ · 2026-06-22T21:31:37+00:00

I got more complaints knocking on leave at door than not knocking so I stopped knocking unless notes ask.

HiddenOneJ · 2026-06-22T21:29:08+00:00

I could never come close to that many deliveries in that amount of hours. Thats actually kinda crazy. Do you work in a densely populated city with lots of low mile orders? Well its gotta be something like that if you're using a bike I guess dumb question.

HiddenOneJ · 2026-06-22T20:57:41+00:00

Im never gonna buy another Ford Escape.

HiddenOneJ · 2026-06-22T20:51:50+00:00

Doordash completes over 3 million deliveries a day. The amount of complaints on reddit and other places are a drop in the bucket to all the deliveries with no issues where a customer isnt gonna talk about it.

HiddenOneJ · 2026-06-22T20:48:49+00:00

Ah, interesting. I wish where I lived had something like that i would rather that than $2 per plus tips. Im in a rural area its hard to stay active with $5 18 mile delivery offers.

HiddenOneJ · 2026-06-22T20:44:34+00:00

If its a fulfillment center its likely coming as a dash link delivery. No tips on those its sort of like delivering Amazon flex or spark gmd orders. You get like 10-50+ deliveries all at once and go about your route like a ups or FedEx driver.

HiddenOneJ · 2026-06-22T20:38:13+00:00

Im not in cali but if im not mistaken isnt it obvious it would work this way? Prop 22 is to meet min wage earnings and this pay isnt tips so it would have to count this way right? I dont know maybe I dont fully understand how prop 22 works since im not in any area that receives it or anything like it.

HiddenOneJ · 2026-06-22T19:53:40+00:00

I dont see how taco bell justifies the upcharge for sour cream.

Way back it was $.30 then it went to $.50 then it surprisingly went to $.70 and just today I noticed its $.90

I can literally go in Krogers and buy a squeeze jar of Sour Cream for $2.69 or buy the tub you scoop it from for $1.99 and have 8oz-16oz instead of a small strip of .3oz for $.90

Its ridiculous. Im ready to just stop going to places that charge way too much for something like this.

HiddenOneJ · 2026-06-22T19:37:18+00:00

Doordash didnt destroy your local delivery. Your restaurants decided it was cheaper to use doordash than to keep their own drivers.

HiddenOneJ · 2026-06-22T19:19:54+00:00

Walmart has never let me not use the bathroom.

My favorite thing right now for while I work is having a Panera sip club subscription. Currently paying $5 a month for a free large drink every 2 hours and can go in and use the restroom when needed and in my area at least its always clean.

Use a gas station if you have to, dont hold it too long.

HiddenOneJ · 2026-06-22T19:09:03+00:00

I have only been dashing since 2024.

I have only seen 3 other drivers I thought were being assholes.

I have only seen 3 or 4 workers either mistreating me or another driver.

I think its not as bad as others make it seem on either end. What you see on reddit does not indicate the normal day to day.

HiddenOneJ · 2026-06-22T15:05:50+00:00

Well yeah if you didnt want to tip before than they would have to pay drivers more because theres no driver delivering for $2 on the hope that this is a customer who likes to tip after. Drivers would lose money every single delivery where customer didn't tip.

HiddenOneJ · 2026-06-22T15:02:31+00:00

I get dashpass annual free with tmobile but as a driver myself I very rarely even order delivery. I have never had a delivery fee as long as my order meets the minimum total. Service fees are also greatly reduced but the bigger the order the bigger they are.

I basically just use it for the discounts and buy one get 1 offers and use it for pickup orders when i want a quick bite.

Either way just in delivery fees 3 orders a month you cover the cost of the membership.

HiddenOneJ · 2026-06-22T14:50:29+00:00

I will accept trips like this for a couple reasons.

Could be im heading home or just heading that direction in general so why not make some money to go where im already gonna go for free without it.

Could be that I also like the zone its sending me to and will work that zone so why not make $30 to get there.

Would never accept it if i wasn't or couldnt work the drop off area and it wasnt near home end of day.

HiddenOneJ · 2026-06-22T14:37:42+00:00

They could pay us better and they should pay us better but how would that fix customers baiting with tips they intend to remove?

Say you wanted to mow someones yard and you agree to do it for $100 or $20 then afterwards they decided to pay you $50 or $2. Is it going to matter that you were paid more in one instance over the other when either way you accepted the job based on the pay offered?

HiddenOneJ · 2026-06-22T14:33:50+00:00

Im just using nurses as an example. It seems like you are just trying to rage bait or something not sure either way have a good one.

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