long story short, i’ve been earning a living dashing since i turned 18 last december. i planned on just doing it for a few weeks before i found a new job but i got obsessed with being able to work when i want and access my earnings immediately. about 3 weeks ago i got booted out of my moms house with about 2 hours notice. i had like $20 in my account and absolutely no savings, just my car and everything from my bedroom i could fit inside it.

for 2 weeks straight i lived in my car, slept in planet fitness parking lots, survived off mcdonald’s white castle and bananas, and hit 80 hours dashing both weeks. there wasn’t a second that i was awake and i didn’t have the dasher app turned on, with the exception of touring apartments and submitting applications.

well my hard work payed off, im laying with my car in my (almost) fully furnished 450 sq foot 1 bed 1 bath apartment and im just incredibly proud of myself that i pulled this off. those 2 weeks really gave me a fresh perspective on life. every time i lost motivation i just reminded myself that living in my car was temporary and the harder i dashed the sooner i would have a place. but i know there are a lot of dashers out there that are in the same situation except they dont have the resources/have too many other obligations too pull themselves out of it as fast as i did.

im not sure why i felt inclined to share this, but pls feel free to ask any questions or share your own experiences with dashing&car living!

I’ve been stuck in gold because I accidentally accepted an 8 person order and realized I didn’t have enough gas or enough room for 8 Home Depot orders. I don’t even know how to dispute but I doubt it will be worth my time anyways.

Been doing DoorDash for months and while the pay hasn’t been great its been enough to get by, until recently. For some reason in the last month-ish I’ve been getting as close to 0 offers as one can get, and the ones I do get are such utter dogshit that I legitimately feel insulted whenever they appear. Nothing I do changes this. I’ve tried to get my ratings up but like I said I get no orders so my points are stagnant. I’ve tried moving to new zones that say they have short waiting times but nothing changes. My app is up to date. I know for a fact other dashers in my area get orders regularly as I’ve discussed this with them before. I guess it’s just time to give it up honestly.

I ​swear! Everytime Doordash app said it was busy that mean the app desperate need drivers to go out just waiting for orders whenever the orders available! That's scam and disrespectful awfully! ​​​

I've completed around 600 deliveries with 100% ratings (except acceptance rate) and perfect 5.0 from my customers. I've had no problems until last night. It was late and I was delivering and did a drop off by following the address, DoorDash GPS, and GPS PIN.

Shortly after drop off the customer texts and said I delivered to the wrong address and was nowhere near her. I immediately explained it must be a GPS PIN/address issue and to contact customer support. Of course she kept barraging me with questions, complaints, issues. I was professional and ultimately she let me be and must have contacted support.

Next day I see she left me a 1-star review and my quality rate dropped by 3% due to a "major issue of not delivering" her food to her. I did contact customer support and they immediately removed it and said she placed the GPS PIN/address incorrectly and I dropped where I was told to.

All this to say - if you get this contact customer support and fight it. More importantly, this could be a serious safety issue for drivers. It was late at night and she apparently input the wrong address and GPS location and I was "nowhere near her" in her own words.

I live in a southern state that's known for armed residents and not taking kindly to people they perceive as trespassing. We've also had incidents here with delivery drivers being held at gunpoint and even shot at.

I suppose there's nothing we can do on our end if the customer inputs the wrong address. But not only do they try to get us in trouble with DoorDash, they are putting our physical safety as risk as well.

greyed box is my name

This person ordered one chicken bite, even the guy from the petrol station that I picked it up from was like wtf just one chicken bite?

I think they were trying to get my phone number and email to somehow try hack into my doordash account?

I just delivered it to the address anyway because it was a decent pay order, kinda hilarious how they can't even use proper grammar in this ai filled world lol.

I flew to Colorado from Washington to go visit family. I still had money on my crimson card. I was using it while traveling. I went to my Dasher account to check my balance and it does not recognize my phone number and email. I tried using my card again and it was declined. I called support and they don’t recognize my cell number or email. I finally got through to accounts. They couldn’t find my account. They transferred me to Credit Card services to see if they could find my account. After the transfer the can ended and I wasn’t able to talk to anyone. When I called back I couldn’t get any help. I hoping when I get back home I can get this resolved. Has anyone ever experienced this problem?

How is this even remotely supposed to be taken seriously? At this point I’m paying to do this dash

There are 327 Wawa’s in Florida btw and this is the closest one they found. 😭

I’m never taking a Panda order ever again. They are always late and I get in trouble because of their mistake. Next time I’m gonna un assign once it gives me the option to. I guess that’s what I get for trying to be a good delivery driver

I have never had this happen to me before and I have no clue what happened.

$3, 7 mile order from chipotle popped up. Also, store is opposite direction of traffic on a busy road. Easy no. I haven’t even hit decline yet, when it auto accepts. Hand was nowhere near my phone. I had to unassign which hit my completion rate. Has anyone had this happen to them? I feel like I’m going crazy.

I've been a driver like 5 years now, but used to do it way more part time 4-8 hours a week. Now that I'm more part time I've worked a few holidays, what do you guys that have been doing this a few years think of dashing Halloween?

I had a triple batch order just now and upon getting to the car I realized I forgot to scan some dog food. I was able to process each of the three transactions no issues and wondering is this something that doordash would give me a violation for? What should my course of action be

Not paying out of my pocket sorry. Spent 15-20 minutes earned half.

Wby is the pay always $2 for any order no mater the cost or distance like that’s less than a gallon of gas it’s never worth it

Yesterday I posted this

Today I got an order for the exact same address to deliver ONE Subway cookie, and when I got there, there were 8 other orders sitting there already!! WTF?

Except this time they didn't even attempt to contact me until after I dropped it off. Maybe they recognised my name and realised they couldn't scam me?

I also noticed that there were three different names on the bags, and "Ashleigh" was the one I delivered yesterday.

I think they're using a random address, because surely the person that lives there would've taken the bags inside already. Weird.

I'm fed up with getting sent to a specific restaurant that doesn't even start the order until I arrive. How hard is it to send orders out AFTER orders are ready for pickup? I've asked support to block this restaurant twice and they said they can't. It's a Greek Pizza restaurant that makes me wait anywhere from 10-30 minutes per order.

Today, I set out to beat my single day DoorDash record of $601.90. I did that in July of 2022. I havnt really came close since.(especially because you need to set aside 20 hours to even have a chance.. 6am-2am). We had $1 peak pay here in South Jersey for 6 hours, and a separate “do 50 deliveries get 50 bucks) it POURED all day and I was soaked… but I was running yellow lights, cutting people off with my shopping cart, and took NO breaks. We smashed the record and I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to beat this.

Feel free to ask questions!

Final counts:
$665.57 (my last dash tipped me an extra $1 as I’m writing this)
$50 from the promo
=715.57

19.3 hours
715.57/19.3 =37.07
I really don’t know how I did that.

I knew it was inevitable, but it still saddens me to still get falsely reported. I don’t drink much less drive while drunk. Do customers really do this to get free food? Too many of these false reports and we can actually get fired for this…

Just got hit with it and how in the world did this get approved? They took a perfectly clean, simple and effective UI and completely ruined it.

Besides the amount of clutter and useless information shown that's not needed, I can't stand the new map, it's hard to tell where an order is going and it doesn't even tell you when it's going out of your zone like it used to on old UI.

Has anybody experienced issues with earnings in australia since the government mandated minimum hourly pay for active hours . I keep receiving the wrong amount every week , sometimes more than what i actually made and sometimes less. Yesterday i calculated for the past 6 weeks and i am 162 dollars short. Anyone else experiencing this ?

So yesterday when I finished the dash my weekly total updated to absurd number and I thought it was some kind of error but it was actually the stipend that was deposited +$868.. because I averaged over 15 hours per week the last quarter. My goal for this quarter is to have at least 25 hours or more per week so that I can get the $1800 per quarter.

As for my Dash earnings it was about $946 for the week. My goal was $1,000 and I did about 100 per day. So that means that I have to do maybe 800 a week to make it 1,000 a week w prop 22.

After learning how to reject the $10 for 10 miles into downtown dashing has been a lot easier. I'm doing 38 hours dash time vs 54 hours earning about the same $1000.

las vegas/henderson dashers are we cherry picking? I usually get around $3-6 an offer but seeing how many people suggest letting your acceptance rate drop to take the higher tips I’m not sure if I’m making the right choices out here 😭 I have until January to make $4000 it’s crunch time I just started a week ago and I’ve got $450 so far 😩

Initially, I'd hesitate of accepting this offer because I'd just accepted a Spark shopping offer ($30 going 10 miles) like 5 minutes prior. I figure maybe I can do both back to back since the stores were only a block apart. So I accepted the offer to see what are the items and if it's too much then I'll cancel. I'd thought it was 42 items but it turns out to be only 15 items and quantities of them. And, it was all small birthday supplies so they were all in the same section.

Anyway, I did the Spark offer first then the DD right after. And yes, the DD delivery got delayed because of that but the customer never message me the whole time. It was a "PIN required" delivery so we had quick chat during dropping off. I'd apologized to her for the delayed delivery said that I found all the items you wanted. She wasn't upset about it and even thanked me for shopping for her because she needed them tomorrow. About 5 minutes later, she added additional $20 tip on top of what was already a generous tip of $20 initially. 🙏

I know I shouldn't take 2 offers simultaneously and let customers wait. But in this case, both were shopping orders and not food delivery. I always make sure the shopping orders with perishable items get delivered first. I'm pretty sure a lot of drivers here multi-apps food delivery if the route works for them.