She did Doordash, and I helped her here and there. I wasn't there for every run, but I helped her make a few deliveries and rode with her occasionally. For the most part, her and I had a negative experience. It's not quite as easy or rewarding as we thought.
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Most of the time you're sitting there doing nothing because orders are not coming in.
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A lot of the orders that do come in are less than $5, which are not worth doing.
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Adding to my last point, because of how boring it can be waiting for an order, sometimes we would do the $4 anyway, which was never worth the gas money or time.
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Because of the downtime, it's really hard to make very much money off it. We really struggled to hit $100 on some days.
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The Doordash app was very bad with directions. It was constantly having her go in circles, and she sometimes would be misinformed on what town she was headed in. She would be stuck delivering 20 miles away when she didn't want that. This could be user error though.
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It was unclear whether we should care about our acceptance rating or not. Either we didn't care and wait for the $20 orders to come in, or DO care about the acceptance rate and get TONS of $3.00 orders and not make much money anyway.
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The platform requires a LOT of memorization. You need to know which towns and streets are active, which Taco Bell locations are fast or slow, what time of day is good to make deliveries on, and so on.
Those are just a few points. Anything you would add? Agree or disagree with any of my points?