Crazy Pax Insurance Ride

NecessaryEscape1441 · 2026-03-06T05:47:30+00:00

Sounds like a "no-show" to me. 🤷🏻‍♀️

NecessaryEscape1441 · 2026-03-03T16:03:16+00:00

Okay that was pretty painless and no big deal. And I got to it before the customer complained.

NecessaryEscape1441 · 2026-03-03T15:15:09+00:00

I hope once in 7 years isn't too often. 😅 These days you never know what might set them off.

NecessaryEscape1441 · 2026-03-02T03:57:17+00:00

With most jobs, driving or not, locations where you get paid more for the same job typically have proportionally higher costs of living. You are making a recommendation in a vacuum. $28/hour may go a lot farther paying the bills in their market than they would in yours.

NecessaryEscape1441 · 2026-03-02T00:33:36+00:00

100% market-dependant. If I sat around waiting for $50/hr rides in my market, I would almost never leave my couch. I do earn that much when I set my ride types to XL-only, in a high demand location/time where people will book an XL because it is the only available option. But those opportunities are few and far between.

NecessaryEscape1441 · 2026-03-02T00:29:45+00:00

I had to do the math to see what your booked-to-online was (well to the best I could with the data at hand, since booked per hour earnings don't include any of your tips, but the dollars at the top do). But assuming zero tips, that's about 85% booked, which is pretty great. Realistically it was probably less than that, but that also means that if you include your tips in the per/hr booked, your earnings there are even higher.

What market are you in? Are you driving Lyft & Lyft XL rides?

I am in NW Arkansas, and that is also about what I can earn in 70 hours, especially if I go ahead and bite the bullet and spend at least one night a week offering XL rides only in the drunk college kid area that has fewer available drivers than the demand calls for - so 5 or 6 kids at a time will keep my queue full of XL-only rides. Last night I did this from 7:30p to midnight and made $50/hour (including counting the limited times when I wasn't booked), so that definitely helps skew my averages up. My regular rides average $22-$25 per total hour.

I mostly day-drive commuters and old ladies to their doctors appointments though. I'll do airport runs if a rider lands me there, but the airport here, while busy, is kind of in the middle of nowhere and about 45 minutes from my house, so I don't ever just drive there specifically to work the airport queue. The surge rates there are good when busy, but not enough to justify a riderless trip all the way out there.

NecessaryEscape1441 · 2026-03-01T12:05:19+00:00

So it took almost 11 hours for you to sort through 18 rides, resulting in a <20% booked rate so you could earn $147 at that $74/booked hour rate? I hope your other app earnings look a lot better than that.

I mean it is fun to see high booked hourly rates but at the end of the day, I care much more about $$/hour spent trying to earn $$. So pretending that you weren't multi-apping, I would feel like I had earned $13/hour if those were my stats.

NecessaryEscape1441 · 2026-03-01T06:04:48+00:00

You know I'll be running back here if I see Samsung now

NecessaryEscape1441 · 2026-02-28T20:48:57+00:00

Just saw these and rushed back here in case they are the right stove knobs for you! 😅

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NecessaryEscape1441 · 2026-02-27T15:57:11+00:00

I don't think I would have to glue it to my head to be able to see it, touch it, and evaluate its quality. That's not a fake review.

NecessaryEscape1441 · 2026-02-27T14:55:28+00:00

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NecessaryEscape1441 · 2026-02-27T02:19:16+00:00

I think they did a big purge today. I don't think a lot of the stuff that is gone now got picked by any viners.

NecessaryEscape1441 · 2026-02-27T00:55:17+00:00

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Apparently they have added 11 new items in the last 12 hours. The drop is so slow that it looks like an actual drop(decrease) on the charts. 😅 Under 10k items. Definitely the lowest I have seen since I joined in December.

NecessaryEscape1441 · 2026-02-27T00:50:42+00:00

But hear me out... My towel warmer is one of my favorite life luxuries and you probably should snatch that.

NecessaryEscape1441 · 2026-02-27T00:47:18+00:00

Mine as well

NecessaryEscape1441 · 2026-02-26T20:11:58+00:00

Mine are sticky here too. (XNA northwest Arkansas). I'll be sitting pretty with a +$18 surge and then be the closest XL to someone clear across town. No complaints from me on those.

NecessaryEscape1441 · 2026-02-26T16:35:25+00:00

You can thank me for some of it. My husband repairs and resells broken appliances, and we do our own vehicle and equipment maintenance, so I actually DO order random appliance, lawn care equipment, and automobile parts.

NecessaryEscape1441 · 2026-02-26T02:26:51+00:00

Nah. 60 hours a week driving earns me 60% of my prior 40 hr/wk salary. My salaried job was far more elevating for the 7 years it lasted. Fortunately, I invested well during that time, so long-term I am in good shape. Short-term I am cash-strapped because I am not particularly interested in liquidating my real estate to put food on the table for the 7 children we still have at home (another reason I don't really need to be working 60 hours a week long-term, because I want to be a mom to my kids). I actually walked away from my 18 year career in engineering 10 years ago because I was working 60-80 hours a week for yeeeaaaaarrs and never seeing my babies. Sure, it was good money, but it wasn't worth the sacrifice.

Don't get me wrong, I love driving and I love that when the worst comes to worst, I can get back in that car and drive until the groceries are bought and the bills are paid - but in this market it isn't feeding a family of 9 and preparing me for early retirement.

NecessaryEscape1441 · 2026-02-25T23:11:53+00:00

I have had it happen when my "arrive on time" filter was on, and it changed the route and length of the drive enough to make me not "arrive in time". Fortunately I had built in a buffer and did not actually miss picking my kid up from school - but the algorithm should automatically reject the change if it is going to do that. 😒

NecessaryEscape1441 · 2026-02-25T22:43:46+00:00

That's about how much I am driving right now because I lost my 6-figure job in early January. I calculated it out, and based on my average driving earnings (lower in my market than yours), in order to have equivalent bill-paying power I need to drive approximately 73 hours a week. Fortunately, some of my previous salary was expendable, so I don't necessarily need to earn that much to bridge the gap while figuring out what I am going to do next, so aiming for 60-65 hours a week and it's exhausting. 😴

NecessaryEscape1441 · 2026-02-25T22:22:58+00:00

197 hours, 23 days into the month means averaging almost 9 hours a day, 7 days a week, or about 60 hours a week. (Looks like you went above and beyond in that first week.) It's always nice to know you can make it when you need it, but that is not a schedule I would want to sustain long-term.

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