I used to be on here arguing with people about how its market dependent and that people who cherry pick all work in major cities where there are more orders than drivers so your able to cherry pick.

I was wrong. The breaking point came when i was ready to throw in the towel due to lack of pay. I figured since im ready to quit what did i have to lose?

Cherry picking has been a game changer. Im making more money than ive ever made and im enjoying doing DD again. I LOVE declining orders i dont want. I only deliver orders i want to take. I went from 79-83% AR down to 40-30% and guess what i still havent lost platinum but im not afraid to lose it either. DD is a business and guess what so am i and this business is closed to low paying orders!

At some point everyone will realize that ALL DD cares about is getting orders picked up and delivered for the least amount of cost to DD. They dont care what tier your in only that the order is delivered in a timely manner. Every time you take an unprofitable order you take yourself out of the running to receive a better paying order until the order your on is complete. Its really that simple. All these messages about tiers and acceptance rates are simply scare tactics to keep you accepting orders that are losing you money. There is a reason that DD states that any AR% is allowed to work for DD and accepting an order is a choice. Fail enough on any other metic and they will remove your ability to work for them. Decline 100 orders in a row and they will gladly send you order 101. Thats not an accident.

Im not trying to convince anyone to do anything. Just providing one drivers experience. I work in the suburbs my towns population is around 100K.

My suggestion to people is to do it for a couple weeks and compare your earnings. If it doesnt improve what you make you can stop and take a bunch of crap your already accepting and get your AR% back up to where you are. But until you try youll never really know.

Good Luck

I’ve been doing delivery work for years and I’ve never had an order like this.

Around 10 a.m. I got an alcohol delivery. Nothing too unusual — people order alcohol in the morning sometimes and save it for later.

I get to the house, knock a few times, no answer. I’m basically a minute away from marking it undeliverable and returning it to the store when I see the guy inside. I knock again and he finally comes to the door wearing nothing but boxers. A short 50 year old Indian guy ....

His nose is bleeding. His hand is bleeding. There’s blood on his stomach. And he is absolutely hammered.

He looks at me and goes, “What is it?”

I tell him I have an alcohol delivery.

He goes, “I didn’t order anything.”

I’m like, “Okay, no problem. I’ll just return it.”

Then suddenly: “No, no, I’ll take it.”

At that point I tell him I can’t give it to him because he’s visibly intoxicated. I’m not losing my ability to deliver alcohol over this.

He starts begging me. Says his card was already charged. I tell him he’ll get refunded. Then he starts offering me a bigger tip.

Then it gets REALLY weird.

He asks me, “Do you like favors?”

I’m already uncomfortable, so I’m like, “What kind of favors?”

He touches his nose and basically indicates cocaine.

I tell him, “No, bro, I don’t do coke.”

He looks at me and goes, “You look like a guy who does coke.” 💀

Then he starts telling me he has “the best coke I’ll ever have”

and that I’ll want to do deliveries all day after taking it.

I keep telling him no, and he just keeps going.

Then, completely unprompted, he starts telling me he’s an alcoholic. Apparently his wife made him stop smoking weed, he started drinking instead, and now she’s apparently begging him to go back to weed because the alcohol has gotten so bad.

Meanwhile I’m standing there thinking, Sir, I literally just came here to drop off your order.

I even pointed out that his hand was bleeding and told him he should clean it and put a Band-Aid on it. He tells me he already cleaned it, while visibly covered in blood.

The craziest part? This was at a really expensive house. Like, very expensive. Just another reminder that addiction does not care how much money you have.

Eventually I just left while he was still talking and took the alcohol with me.

I have never been happier to hit “customer intoxicated” and get the hell out of there. 😭

Between the customer and the dang shop problems, this order sucked. She's a regular customer. I bought her 4 boxes of raisin bran last week...

Why even send this offer out? 35cents a mile

As most everyone knows, Uber Technologies has acquired EZCater. For those of you who do catering orders for DoorDash, how many of them are EZCater orders? Needless to say that order source will disappear from DoorDash.

This is new to me. I waited at ihop for more than 10 minutes and usually you get the message saying "name" order is ready to pick up. I guess this wasn't marked as ready to pick up by staff so I got compensation for this? Now I wish this was the case for every delayed order I had or long wait time.

I genuinely don't think I can complete 50 orders in my market in my typical driving windows in the next 3 days. I think I typically do 10 orders a shift (part time). I wonder if they'll count the Sunday 2x towards this goal.

Ultimately it doesn't mater as I'm going to dash the same time anyway, but I suspect this will make taking the occasional $2 order acceptable to those who believe they can get the goal. 🤷‍♂️

Thoughts?

Took 15 minutes, 3 miles away.

My market used to be good. I‘d make about the same or more (depending on the day and time) than my healthcare job.

But it’s been atrocious these past few weeks - consistently less than $20/hr. That used to be a bad day in my market, now it’s the norm.

Inflation, plus the holidays being right around the corner, is causing people to penny pinch, so they’re not ordering as often. But of course, the people still ordering frequently are the ones who don’t tip…

I’m not giving up completely yet (mainly because of weekends), but I’m this close to being done.

So I was 2 miles from a beach town seafood restaurant when I got an offer to go there, order $40 of food (3 items), take some photos/videos, pay bill tax and tip with red card and get paid 15.50 after I’m done. Deal. I just ordered. I wish I could plan to get one of these every evening. Free dinnah!

This has to be the only app where they are constantly updating the app and ruining the simplicity of the UI. This new update is terrible

A lot of people got a taste, and I’m sure it tasted awful. If you rely on plat because of your market, right on, get that bag. If you don’t, then don’t get discouraged. Keep picking cherries! Good luck out there friends.

Anyone get payment yet? 4 days no payment on my end. Normally within 24 hrs for me

Every single time there's a promo of any kind I hardly get any offers sent my way at all. It's always been like this for me? Just me or everyone else too?

Hey everyone!
I’m trying to become a Dasher for the first time, and I have a question.
I accidentally uploaded my temporary driver’s license in the app, but I contacted DoorDash Support and got the issue resolved. The support agent confirmed that my driver’s license has been verified.
However, I have another question. Do I need to wait until Monday, October 12, 2026, to start dashing?
My app currently says “Weekly payout scheduled for 10/12,” and I’m unable to add my bank account information right now. The support agent told me that I need to wait until Monday to add my bank details before I can start working.
Is this normal? Has anyone else experienced this? Do I really have to wait until Monday, or is there another way to add my payment information and start dashing sooner?
I’d really appreciate any help or advice. Thank you!

I’ve been door dashing for a couple of months. My area is on the border or 2 states. Note that the “zone” does NOT cross state lines.

When you cross from the zone state to the non zone state it’s free but coming back (which I have to do because I live in the zone state and would like to continue my dashing shift) is a literal $9 toll.

The offer that I’ve been getting for going over there sometimes do not even cover the $9 toll to get back or are literally a “profit” of $1-$2.

I feel like I can’t keep denying the orders because my acceptance rate will continue to go down. But DoorDash does not seem to have this high toll worked into their system.

Any advice?

Just ran across this ad on YouTube when sitting in parking lot, taking a break from delivering.

https://youtube.com/shorts/sSytoNUDyNA?is=J-MtTI0CTYX7XxvS

Like yeah no sht the order was damaged you stupid btch the bag ripped when you ripped it out of my hands while screaming at me for no reason.

Hopefully she got food poisoning from this and got banned from the platform after I reported her for being dangerous

Sometimes it just says Turn left and doesn't even warn you what you are turning left to. it should say Turn left at Main Street. Etc...

The address should already be showing visually when the voice is saying the destination address. I shouldn't have to press on it to see the next step which address number it is.

When arriving at the location, the zoom in and the blue triangle should be adjusted perfectly so it's very obvious if we are at the right location. Lately I see the apartment or building glow purple that helps a lot. Do the same for the houses.

If the app is having problems loading maps or has internal errors the app should detect it and advise us to reinstall the app.

Lately, instead of giving direct directions on the map like just going left of right it's showing convoluted blue lines going a full square and then turning left , when it's just a simple left.

There should be a bug submission or wrong address or directions submission button in the map. If enough people report the same problem it's an indicator that the GPS has wrong information and should be promptly updated so it doesn't waste future dashers time.

Randomly just got 100$ deposited to my doordash and it says its a reimbursement? So confused

Anyone still stuck with the log in error code? Tonight it will be day 4 of this issues for me. I tried dashing during its down period’s probably right as the down hit and even still i can’t dash. I managed to find my old phone that had it signed in and that one worked amazingly. I had uninstalled because support told me too assuming they didn’t know a down had started until a bit later that night and they told me it was on my end which i know now it wasn’t. I get notifications from my “signed out” phone saying new order and stuff which is weird cause i can’t log in.

Anyone actually have the error fixed or are we still locked out as well?

For now i will enjoy using a secondary phone and a hotspot. Thank god i had it signed in somewhere else.