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/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/XXXTentacIes 9d ago

I’ve done this but in reverse as a customer, order for delivery but pick up myself. Order usually gets canceled by restaurant for an automatic refund and doesn’t impact the driver

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u/Cloudy_Daz3 8d ago

It absolutely does impact every driver who tries to pick up the order and wastes their gas getting there only to be told order was already picked up.

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u/XXXTentacIes 6d ago

Perhaps 3% impacted, as opposed to people who lie and risk them getting deactivated. There aren’t multiple drivers, it’s resolved after the 1st one and they were always ~5 mins or less away