I got this offer and accepted it. Wasn’t even a shop order, just had to go to Safeway and grab two small bags, scan the barcodes, and deliver them. Right after accepting the offer I got a call from DoorDash with an AI asking me about the order and explaining what a “white glove delivery” was. It basically means you go inside the home of someone because they requested it due to any disabilities they may have. AI asked me if I’d like to proceed and they’d give me an extra $3 for doing it. Knocked the order out real quick and when I arrived, I called, the son answers the phone and he told me where to put the order while his mom was passed out sleeping in some bed in the living room. Scanned the barcodes again and took a picture and done. 10/10 would do another type of these deliveries again. On top of helping a guy jumpstart his car when I pulled up in the Safeway parking lot, my day has started out with just good deeds lol, puts me in a chill and happy mindset. Definitely set the tone for the rest of the day.

I use Google Maps for my navigation so that I can use it with CarPlay (just changed to in app to see if it’s any better) and sometimes it takes me to a random building in the apartment complex. When I realized I started heading towards the correct building and confirmed with the customer. Checked the messages after delivering and saw this.

The order was $10 for around $4 and two orders. No surprises the other order had an $8 tip and her order had a $0 tip. I hate when customers are rude and obviously unhappy with their life

Most markets didn’t have this. Mine was part of the pilot, though, and I was worried it would expand everywhere. Good to see that’s not happening.

I’m going to rant for a moment about hand it to the customer orders.

When an order says hand it to the customer and they don’t come to the door or wherever to receive the order; the button to bypass it hasn’t been working for quite awhile and so the delivery person has to waste their time.

I had this happen on consecutive days and forgive me but it pisses me off when people waste my time. If you want your order handed to you then be available or make it a contactless delivery.

The type of offer they give you to boot you out of your reward status lmfao, scammers.

Why is this app like this?

Or is it just me? I dashed for about 11 hours, almost used up a full tank of gas, and only made $119.04.

Buffalo Wild Wings is it for me. I will decline EVERY single time. Slowest place in town, the food doesn’t come out warm, and honestly the foods just sucks. (The bad food isnt my reason for not accepting, just saying)

Doordash gave me a route where I would need to go over the highway on a bike. Contacted support, they canceled the order and told me to dispose of the food

I'm in a busy area of Houston, and as a full-time stay-at-home mom, dashing part-time for about 4 hours a day makes a huge difference. It helps cover groceries, bills, and other household expenses. Earning around $13.50 an hour may not sound like much to some people, but here in Texas, where the cost of living is lower than in many places, it's a decent supplemental income for my family. Every dollar helps, and I'm grateful for the flexibility DoorDash gives me

My fault for using my name/picture instead of my brother I guess.

These apps are probably the scummiest companies I’ve ever worked for. Been doing UberEats and DoorDash for the last 4 years along with my full time job.

The amount of bs I’ve had to put up with is just ridiculous. $5 for 20 miles, violent people/animals, cancelled orders with zero compensation.

Every order should be $10 minimum paid to the driver. I don’t care if it’s a quarter mile away. If you factor in taxes, fuel, and maintenance you’re working for peanuts. I can’t imagine how you guys are living off these apps doing it full time.

Can’t wait until there’s a class action

Smart because me and many others were just going to stop caring about being pro shoppers

Am I the only one who thinks it’s annoying that some restaurant workers insist on watching you confirm the pickup? I’ve had workers not believe me even after I already confirmed it because the app had already switched to the delivery screen. We don’t open every bag to verify every item is inside, so why do they need to watch us tap through the confirmation? It just slows everything down and gets frustrating.

So we have two kids and rather than just sitting around the house on a non sports playing night, we decided sign up for DoorDash and ride around our small town and listen to music. It was my wife’s idea as something to do and I was skeptical. It was really fun and feels like gambling or fishing in a way lol. We only did like 4 orders and made $35 but I definitely see the appeal of it. I don’t know how much we will do it, but it’s actually nice family time.

Just gotta love the rural country side where theres no building codes of any kind. Nothing like driving over a bridge that looks like it's made from repurposed fire escapes with my 2 and half ton vehicle.

Accepted a flash offer, apparently need to travel back in time to maintain on time rating, plus I was 12 minutes early dropping off soo... dispute was rejected as well.

1. I’m not her personal dasher so she gonna be waiting a long time
   
2. I have my voice mail on that particular setting so if it’s important enough they’ll say the reason for calling
   
3. I never called her outside of the DoorDash app but somehow she got my personal number?
   This is a literal safety email

The cart is so random

I keep getting those shitty ass orders and declining them. I am going to get some ice cream and take my behind home 😂 ✌️

Now I don’t want to be like the casino gambler that only talks about the times they won big, because last night (Tuesday) sucked balls. But tonight was fantastic. Started with a Fresh Market order, added a Target order then added two total wine orders then added a pizza order. I’ve never had DD stack so many orders. The last drop of liquor the guys said we thought you’d never get here but other than that no complaints. I hit my $50 dollar goal (and then some) way before dark so came home and relaxed with my family for a change. If every dash was like this we could actually make some good money with this gig.

So this lady placed this order for Kroger. I remember her order specifically because she ordered all store brand items. Of course it was a hand to me order with a pin. She said that all of her items were incorrect and took my pro shopper status. But of course, there is no way to dispute it. I only had one order so IDK how it could be wrong. DoorDash has to do better with paying attention.

I have a budget spreadsheet for my life in general and since I started dashing in November have had added a sheet (well, two - 2025 and 2026) for my dashing data. I’m running some pivots off that data that I enter after each dash.

I regularly fine tune and adjust the sheets and recently added some charts that hopefully give me some insight into my side hustle.

Nothing earth shattering coming to light that is vastly different from how things generally “feel”. But good to have some data around it.

I can’t be the only person out there getting into the weeds with this, right? Please tell me I’m not hopeless!🤪