Saturday, 1 June 2024
By Bensen32
@Bensen32 (27610)
United States
June 1, 2024 10:54am CST
Good day to you.
Well, that weather person lied about the little rain today. It’s been raining steadily for the last two hours and when I checked the weather forecast again, it said it would rain all day. I guess it doesn’t matter, I will survive I am sure LOL.
I have not given you all an update on my testing out the delivery apps in a while. I have been doing it when I have some free time and nothing better to do. I have been switching from Uber Eats and Door Dash and as I said before it’s not that bad for a part-time side hustle. Over the average I been making about $15 an hour, alright really it came out to $14.96 an hour. Now that is the hours I am on the app, if I take just the hours, I am active it jumps up to about $23 an hour.
So, what does that mean? I am sure the companies take those active hours, so it sounds like you are making more. They say Active as in an offer to do a delivery comes to you and you accept the delivery, the active time starts, and you go get the food and deliver it and end the delivery. That is active time, now you sit and wait for the next offer to come to you, that is on the app time but you’re just waiting. That is on the app hours, well to me that is still time I am “working”, so I put that time into my average to see what the hourly pay is.
As you see that makes it almost a $10 difference. The way I see it is that on app time is still time I am working. I guess it would be like being at any other job and you are waiting for your boss to give you an assignment, you’re not really working but you’re there and ready to work. It’s not your time it’s work’s time and you should be getting paid.
Also, another big thing about this is there is no way of knowing how much you might make. One day I go out and it is busy, and I make $50 to 100, the next time I make $20 and call it a day cause to much time goes by waiting and not making anything. So, to try to depend on this as an income I think is not doable. At least not where I live, maybe a bigger market you could do better but not here.
Alright I went on long enough so have a good day.
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@kaylachan (69661)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
1 Jun
You're obviously going to do better in a larger city.However, a large part of it is the stores, themselves. My husband has admitted the little box uber has given them doesn't really give them enough time to accpt the order half the time. And, if he's busy then he would deliberatly ignore it. So, you have to take that into consideration, too. It's kind of silly that Pizza Hut (of all places) accepts Uber Eats, but then Uber Eats can get to places their drivers can't. Either way, it's an order.
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@Bensen32 (27610)
• United States
1 Jun
yes, you have short window to accept or decline. Yeah, pizza places here will do it to avoid their drivers from having to drive too far. If I see one of them come up, I decline right away because I know it is going to be too far and not worth my time to do it.
Yes, more population, more orders, more chances to make money. I been pickier on the orders I accept. If it's not at least $1.50 a mile I won't take it, and I hardly take any order that doesn't pay me at least $5.
I have seen some for like $3, I'm not wasting my time on that. Or one's like 6-10 miles and they want to pay $5, no thank you. I don't want to drive out of the area for $5 to have to drive back to get more orders.
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@kaylachan (69661)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
1 Jun
@Bensen32 I don't blame you on that one. Why do more work for not worth the pay? I'll admit, I've had to rely on door dash and companies like that since the stroke, but I also make it worth it (or try to) when I do order something because my husband used to drive for Pizza hut. I know what goes into it.
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@Bensen32 (27610)
• United States
2 Jun
@kaylachan I have ordered through both before, and the convenience is nice but can be expensive.
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