I have been delivering with UberEats for almost a year now with well over 1000 deliveries. Over the last several weeks, pings have been just about non-existent. A few weeks ago a good day was 3 to 5 deliveries and this week I am lucky to get just 1. The last 2 days were one each with 8 hours of online time. This is just something I do on my off days but do enjoy the extra money it brings in to support hobbies. I also deliver with GrubHub and it is is very similar in terms of reduced deliveries. I am located in Simi Valley, CA.
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It’s not declining there’s more people doing it now, it’s better than their previous 9 - 5 job, they have more free time and making more money also. If you can make $600 to $2,000 a week it’s going to attract lots of new people that never made that kind of money before.
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Ubereats offering no deals or promotions like the others, people started changing when they changed the delivery fare structure
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Uber lost a lot customers when they raised the fees in October 2018 and now they have lost more customers because of the recent increases in fees and the stupid double fee system they are doing.
This is the main reason that Uber doesn't have enough orders to keep it's drivers busy.
What makes me mad as a customer is that if I order from Uber it cost between $8.00 and $12.00 for a delivery or I can order from DoorDash for 1/2 the cost.
This is the main reason that Uber doesn't have enough orders to keep it's drivers busy.
What makes me mad as a customer is that if I order from Uber it cost between $8.00 and $12.00 for a delivery or I can order from DoorDash for 1/2 the cost.
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All of the other platforms as far as I can tell changed their delivery fee model too.
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Nope. The main reason is that there are too many people doing UE.
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There should be a cap on number of drivers
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Agreed.
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I'll bust a cap in a
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It's really the same thing.... Tomayto Tomahto
IDK.... Well how do you fix it?
Sure thing....
Have you ever heard this quote "Wish in one hand, shit in the other. See which one gets filled first."
Same thing applies here.... Do you ever think it's going to happen?
The only answer is to increase the number of orders. This is the one thing that Uber has failed to do.
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Around me DoorDash does monthly subscription, free delivery on orders $15 or more for $9.99 a month.
It’s a good concept because when you order you know what you are paying, for uber to charge an extra percentage on the total of the order cost is stupid, really dumb. A delivery is a delivery unless it’s some crazy amount of food that’s being catered.
If you order $100.00 worth of pizzas say for a team or a scout group, you should pay a delivery surcharge on 8 pizzas, not just a delivery charge, both charges no matter what ?
Stupid and cost them business.
They need to do more offers like they used to as well, promotions etc. all they have now is spend $500.00 on orders, move up a notch on the uber privilege scale and receive $5 off your next order. That’s 1% for spending $500.00. No benefit or incentive whatsoever
It’s a good concept because when you order you know what you are paying, for uber to charge an extra percentage on the total of the order cost is stupid, really dumb. A delivery is a delivery unless it’s some crazy amount of food that’s being catered.
If you order $100.00 worth of pizzas say for a team or a scout group, you should pay a delivery surcharge on 8 pizzas, not just a delivery charge, both charges no matter what ?
Stupid and cost them business.
They need to do more offers like they used to as well, promotions etc. all they have now is spend $500.00 on orders, move up a notch on the uber privilege scale and receive $5 off your next order. That’s 1% for spending $500.00. No benefit or incentive whatsoever
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I didn't get the meaning of your quote really.
Uber doesn't have control over orders.
Uber does have control over the number of drivers.
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What it means is that when Uber has too many drivers each driver has less orders to deliver and each driver makes less money or when Uber has too few orders and each driver has less orders to deliver and each driver makes less money.
It's just that Uber has messed up the ratio of the number of drivers compared to the the number of orders and the cause of this is because Uber charges more for the orders reducing the number of customers ordering from some markets and in other markets it has messed up because Uber just has too many drivers.
Tomayto = Tomahto (Tomato = Tomato) means that the outcome is the same even if the variables to get to the outcome are different.
Uber also has direct control of the orders. If Uber charges more less customers buy from them if they charge less more customers buy from them. The problem is that Uber's competitors are charging less and taking more market share from Uber.
Uber also has direct control over the number of drivers. Pay the drivers more you have more drivers. Think about it are you more likely to work if the boost is 0 or if it's 2.0? Uber has less customers so don't need drivers. Uber's plan is to have less and less customers? I don't know how that is going to work for them? The way Uber is run they don't want to be a rideshare company and they really don't want to be a food delivery company.
I'm also not sure where your from, but do a google search on american history slave trade and cotton trade in the United States in the early 1800's. What you will find is that Uber runs it's business like the american slave trade with how it controls the drivers and restaurants and it controls the customer the same way the cotton trade was done in the early 1800's
That's the funny thing about history. We learn about history so that we don't repeat the mistakes that have happened in the past and then we do them anyway.
Also not to leave out the restaurants. Uber does what is called fixed price and profit marketing. This is nothing new it. The modern version of this started back in the 1300's. The best example of this I can think of is Christopher Columbus discovery of America. If you look it up he was contracted where he could keep 10% or the riches plus some other things. The restaurants in the Uber model keep 65% + all the cost. It's the same thing.... Hundreds of years of the same thing....
The biggest problem Uber has is they are not competitive with the other companies that are taking market share from them. It's really the first thing you learn in business school on the first day you go there. If your not growing your shrinking. More customers means more growth. Less customers means your shrinking. In free markets it's the money you spend that controls what these companies do.
Take Tesla for example. When they have their robo taxi fleet it's is going to take business from every other player in the rideshare industry. It's bad because even if Uber sells out the company with their IPO. The people that invest before the price drop are the ones that will be hurt the most. It's going to happen anyway but what if Tesla delivers on robo taxi? What will the price drop be then?
Uber needs to do something to get more customers. They are the ones that buy the product and they are the ones that pay the bills. The only reason Uber would not go after getting more customers is Uber doesn't have the money to invest in getting more customers.
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Keep doing what's they were doing? How's a company like Uber staying in business by lossing millions of dollar?
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Thanks for the detailed comment. It's nice information.
In my opinion, robo taxis will never happen. For many many reasons. Uber and Lyft wasting money for SDCs.
The winner of the rideshare market is whoever pays the "drivers" more. Without drivers there is no business.
Imagine if Uber was paying the drivers better than Lyft. Wouldn't all drivers switch to Lyft in that case? If they attracted all drivers, there was no Lyft business. To achieve this, they needed to reduce their costs.
This is my opinion.
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My opinion on robo taxis.....
We will see....
If my grandparents were still alive they would tell you about this crazy thing called the railroad that the Prussian Nationalized Government had built in Deutschland and how they could travel anywhere in Germania in 7 to 10 days. Now we can fly around the world in a few hours.
It might be next year or 2 or 5 or 10 years, but change is coming
We will see....
If my grandparents were still alive they would tell you about this crazy thing called the railroad that the Prussian Nationalized Government had built in Deutschland and how they could travel anywhere in Germania in 7 to 10 days. Now we can fly around the world in a few hours.
It might be next year or 2 or 5 or 10 years, but change is coming
Keep in mind, door dashes prices are higher .The jack up the prices of the food,
If you never went there, u might not know they are upcharging u. They almost steal tips.
They got a funny system,where they use your tip to pay part of the driver. If the delivery pays $5,and u tip $6. Door dash pays $1 amd uses $5 of your tip. If u don't tip,door pays $5.
If you use door dash tip in cash. The way they raise the menu price and funny tip stealing i avoid them. According to the article, they are gonna be less shady w the fees. I bet they aint gonna tell a customer about the funny tip scheme. Whatever the pay out for the delivery is,dd use the tip towards that.
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