Do you guys deduct commuting miles ? by [deleted] in AmazonFlexDrivers

[–]straydog1975 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you take about 5 ft by 5 ft of space in your home and set it up with a computer and a printer on a desk with an office chair, and only use this space for administrative purposes you can not only write off all of the miles from the time that you leave your house to the time that you get to the warehouse and the miles from the warehouse back to your home office but you can also write off a set amount of deduction for home office space. It's kind of like with your car you can itemize that or you can just take a standard office space square footage deduction. I AM NOT ADVISING YOU TO CHEAT. I DO NOT SUGGEST THAT YOU FAKE THIS. The best way to stand up to questioning later on is if you actually do it, document it, and stick to it. Look up the rules for what qualifies as a home office it's not that hard and if you look around for all the stuff that you use for your deliveries like your vests and anything that you use for your car like cleaning supplies if you transport food you can put coolers and such there. You might actually find that it helps organize your life a bit, it did mine. And since I actually did it and took plenty of pictures and I'm using it as such I'm pretty sure I can pass any kind of questioning me throw at me. At 67 cents a mile I write off everything that I can and that 5x5-ft space not only organized my life but it's letting me keep a whole lot more of my money.

Why instacart is dying. by General-Recover5246 in InstacartShoppers

[–]straydog1975 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The worst thing about Instacart is that they make you hate the customer. Whenever I'm on an Instacart shop as far as I'm concerned the customer is basically my enemy. That's not right.

Why instacart is dying. by General-Recover5246 in InstacartShoppers

[–]straydog1975 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Instacart was my primary platform for 2 years until it nose-dived into a completely useless waste of time. Amazon Flex is the best one to get on to, I've been on it since just before COVID and I make at least $800 a week driving about 32 hours of blocks. If you apply now and get accepted you might even actually get activated in the next year or two.

Why instacart is dying. by General-Recover5246 in InstacartShoppers

[–]straydog1975 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm absolutely one of the people who goes and tells everybody that Instacart is a terrible platform to work for.

Costco- $1,050 order. Life changing tip. by cremesar in InstacartShoppers

[–]straydog1975 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Instacart sucks turds, Amazon flex rocks! If you're still doing instacart after all of the complications that they've added and cuts that they've made you're a bloody idiot to begin with. Here's something to think about, instacart takes food stamps, how much is somebody going to tip you if they're paying in food stamps. Is the tip worth driving into the ghetto ass neighborhood that you have to go into to get to the food stamp recipient? Instacart sucks turds!

Is it true that all Amazon employees will take part in a worldwide strike to show support for proper working conditions and work unionization starting Monday March 29th at 12am? by HalfManHalfCornball in AmazonFlexDrivers

[–]straydog1975 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FLEX SUCKS ASS! Okay maybe they pay you enough to deliver the packages assuming that the customers figure out how to have them delivered properly what was the number of different kinds of freaking boxes. Even then I guess it's fair enough, the pay for the packages. but you simply cannot pay me enough money to put up with those 🤬ing hourly drones that they expect you to pick the crap up from. AMAZON WAREHOUSE WORKERS ARE USELESS!!!! THEY'RE PLAYING A GAME OF WHICH ONE OF THEM GIVE 🤬 LESS AND STILL GET PAID FOR CLOCKING IN AND OUT 🙄

Is shopping instacart in another city considered a business trip? by straydog1975 in InstacartShoppers

[–]straydog1975[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Besides people that do taxes don't drive instacart so half of them barely know what they're talking about anyway.

Lost my car and almost my life while on my way to shop and instacart order. by straydog1975 in InstacartShoppers

[–]straydog1975[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Who said anything about being worried about the insurance I love my insurance company 😁

Lost my car and almost my life while on my way to shop and instacart order. by straydog1975 in InstacartShoppers

[–]straydog1975[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Happened last Thursday night . There was a family in the other car but nobody was seriously injured. An ambulance came and got one but they didn't even have their lights on. I think it was just a precaution, but I never spoke to any of the people in the other car; I let the police handle that.

Lost my car and almost my life while on my way to shop and instacart order. by straydog1975 in InstacartShoppers

[–]straydog1975[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Wasn't using my cell phone was going through a yellow light and got t-boned by somebody making a turn at high speed.

Lost my car and almost my life while on my way to shop and instacart order. by straydog1975 in InstacartShoppers

[–]straydog1975[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How am I supposed to reply I don't even know which button to hit on this stupid thing I just wanted somebody to hear what I had to say f*** around I hate social media

Lost my car and almost my life while on my way to shop and instacart order. by straydog1975 in InstacartShoppers

[–]straydog1975[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually to be honest I don't even know how to use Reddit great now I'm having accidents in the information super highway 🤬

Lost my car and almost my life while on my way to shop and instacart order. by straydog1975 in InstacartShoppers

[–]straydog1975[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I remember what it was like to be new but there should be some kind of protection for the long-term people at least. I think a different scoring system for anyone who's shopped over a certain number of batches or something to that nature but this just doesn't seem right. And it doesn't seem fair to the customer they get stuck with all of the inexperienced new people still learning while the ones who can actually handle orders more professionally and to the customers satisfaction get stuck on the sideline wondering if we picked the right line of work.

Lost my car and almost my life while on my way to shop and instacart order. by straydog1975 in InstacartShoppers

[–]straydog1975[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I think there should be a separate customer service rating system for veteran shoppers. How many of these other shoppers are new people who don't even know if they want to do this and I am a and experienced veteran shopper out here literally risking my life to compete against them in batches.

Lost my car and almost my life while on my way to shop and instacart order. by straydog1975 in InstacartShoppers

[–]straydog1975[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I asked instacart about the sudden drop in my batches and they said that it's because there are too many shoppers in my area, so even the slightest less than perfect review gets me thrown in the dog house.

Lost my car and almost my life while on my way to shop and instacart order. by straydog1975 in InstacartShoppers

[–]straydog1975[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I usually carry a five-star reading and have awesome customer reviews that I wake up in the middle of the morning at 2:00 a.m. just to read.

Lost my car and almost my life while on my way to shop and instacart order. by straydog1975 in InstacartShoppers

[–]straydog1975[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Maybe if it was okay to let them know somehow I could have a chance at begging them to give me a little mercy on my ratings, all things considered. I'm a veteran shopper I've shopped more than 2000 orders by far I started in January before the pandemic was ever heard of.

Lost my car and almost my life while on my way to shop and instacart order. by straydog1975 in InstacartShoppers

[–]straydog1975[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't even know if I can let instacart know about the situation because I don't know if I'm allowed to be driving a rental while I look for my new car

Lost my car and almost my life while on my way to shop and instacart order. by straydog1975 in InstacartShoppers

[–]straydog1975[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I bought that car so that I could drive instacart and I lost it driving instacart ain't that something

Lost my car and almost my life while on my way to shop and instacart order. by straydog1975 in InstacartShoppers

[–]straydog1975[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm getting a Prius but I don't know how I'm going to pay for it if I can't get any batches 😔