r/UberEATS • u/PizzaTimeIsAnytime • 9d ago

USA Stolen

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What’s going on in Atlanta today?? 😅 nearly ever other order was stolen by a driver. I figured it was too good to be true…

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u/Dith_q 9d ago

How does this scam work? I've twice had fast food orders upwards of $20 and both were "already picked up" according to the workers. 

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u/Worldly-Reindeer-853 9d ago edited 9d ago

A driver accepts the offer, comes to the restaurant, picks up the order, but never confirms the pickup. Gets into the car and drops the order as if he doesn’t want it. Order is gone. However, it’s still circulates in the system as if it has not been picked up yet (as technically it’s true), every single driver who accepts comes only to hear it was already picked up, and cancels the order, and it keeps going. The system thinks that no one wants this trip and keeps raising the base pay for it. Most like the base pay for this 41 dollar order is 40 bucks with 1 dollar tip. Hence, if it’s just a burger for 10 bucks, you can just pay out of your pocket and still end up in 30 dollar profit. Or if the restaurant is cool; they can remake it and you can have the 41 dollars, customer is happy, and everyone is happy.

Stealing food is fucked up, and people should really stop doing this nonsense, even if it’s a 2 dollar order. They should Have some integrity, if the customer is an asshole with zero integrity expecting the food for free, don’t lower yourself to his level.

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u/okaysureyep 8d ago

So wait.. the person that “stole” the order just literally steals the order and doesn’t get any benefit other than some food? And the system handles it by increasing the offer even though the offer doesn’t exist and was stolen? That’s regarded.

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u/Worldly-Reindeer-853 8d ago

Yup. And they steal the stupidest foods ever, like a single burger or a few Tacos, not like a 200 dollar order from Olive Garden. It’s dumb.