I’m officially done with Uber

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Anonymous wrote:I'm confused how you didn't know this before?

I’m confused as to why that matters?

Its been all over the news and everywhere about all the extra charges. OP choose to do it anyway and now complaining?

No, I didn’t choose to do it anyway. I obviously didn’t know. JFC

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Are you new?

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Anonymous wrote:I live in Frederick where there aren’t that many places that deliver. We rarely order out, but we wanted Chinese tonight so we ordered through Uber eats. I got the receipt from the restaurant. Our total was $40.50 with tax. However, Uber apparently sets their own prices for restaurants (not the restaurant themselves) so Uber total came to $49.40. With fees it was 61.20. Of course I tipped so it was well over $70.

I understand that they need to make money, but $22 on a $40 order, that’s 50 percent. And they pay their drivers shit!!! I’m constantly reading on Facebook how people don’t tip drivers. I always do, of course and well, but I’m going to start urging everyone to stop tipping!!! Uber needs to start paying their drivers a fair wage.

They also created a monopoly with car rides and now they are super unreliable. However they hurt the taxi drivers to the point that they couldn’t keep up so they stopped taxiing. F this corporate greed. I’m over it. I’ll pick my own damn food.

If I’m getting any of this wrong let me know.

Ubereats actually doesn’t jack up the food price. The restaurant does it to account for the 30% cut ubereats takes from them.

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Anonymous wrote:This is news to you?
They all do this, Door Fash, Grub Hub. Where have you been?

Yes it’s news to me. Apparently I’m slow or just don’t order out very much. Either way, now that I know better I won’t use any of them. Maybe someone else who also didn’t know about this can learn from my mistake?

I don't understand. You write about it like it's a conspiracy. The prices are pretty clear on their website. If you have another option, like driving to pick it up, then use it, but I'm not sure what your mistake was. Not reading the prices before you ordered?

No, I didn’t write about it like it’s a conspiracy. I wrote about it like it’s greed which it is. That’s all. I will be picking up my own food on the rare occasions that we want to order take out, as I stated already.

You wrote about it like it's hidden. But it's very clear on the website how much you're paying before you purchase. There are plenty of things I don't buy because they cost too much, that's totally fine. But to announce that you're "officially done" with someone and that "now I know better" implies that they somehow deceived you.

If you bothered to read carefully you’d see that Uber charges their own, higher price than the restaurant. That part is most certainly not displayed at all much less clearly. I only noticed it when I got the receipt from the restaurant with the food. That was an extra $10 on top of $10 in fees which doubles their profit. But you are too busy arguing for no reason at all in a typical DCUM fashion to actually read carefully.

When you placed the order on Uber eats, you saw the amount that you were going to be charged. You must have decided the amount was worth it to you to have your food delivered because you submitted the order.

Your mad because Uber charged you more than the restaurant. If the restaurant had not included the receipt you would be no wiser and not upset.

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OP I was also shocked when I saw my recent Uber eats order. No more for me. It’s simply ridiculous. I’ll pick up my own food!

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I rarely have food delivered because of the exorbitant fees. It's outrageous.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the heads up
Haven’t done Uber eats since the last time they didn’t deliver my food, they dropped it off at some other address and I had a very difficult time trying to contact someone at Uber eats to ask about it, even the restaurant that I ordered my food from didn’t know

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Haha, never used Uber Eats, don’t like randos handling my food and paying $$$ for the privilege.

I mean unless you are disabled how hard is it to zip off and pickup off the counter? Sure beats cooking!

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Thanks OP for this post.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm confused how you didn't know this before?

This.

What a weird rant OP. Make better choices that don't annoy you next time.

[Anonymous]

I used GrubHub once while visiting San Francisco back in 2013. The fees and surcharges increased the bill by 50%. I never use any of these services, they all suck.

Just order directly with the restaurant

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I feel like in the past there would be a few restaurants that did delivery, and the extra cost was built into the pricing, namely pizza and Chinese. Otherwise you had to pay extra using something like Takeout Taxi, which was probably not far off from the Uber fees even way back then.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm confused how you didn't know this before?

This.

What a weird rant OP. Make better choices that don't annoy you next time.

No, It’s a good post. I have never used Uber eats but I have always kept in the back of my mind in case I have a sick day and I feel like eating soup. I won’t now. I was ok with a small sur charge but nothing like what op describes.

[Anonymous]

Definitely done with them for rides. I paid $70 for IAD to home which was expected, but when I looked online how much Uber gets vs. the driver, I was just sick. This is truly screwing the little guy with the fat cats just ka-chinging away.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm confused how you didn't know this before?

I’m confused as to why that matters?

It speaks to your overall level of competency.