Anonymous
10/17/2022 09:12
Subject: Re:I’m officially done with Uber
My family in Brooklyn food order would at least 50% of the time get cancelled as the Uber driver was delivering their food. It has been known for them to pick up the food and then keep it for themselves and cancel the order. It was really bad in the height of the pandemic. Of course they would be refunded but they would have rather their food like they ordered.
Anonymous
10/16/2022 17:01
Subject: I’m officially done with Uber
We cook and eat together as a family.
Anonymous
10/15/2022 13:15
Subject: I’m officially done with Uber
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.
OP, if it bothers you that much consider an eye for an eye, perhaps. DH and I usually order late at night, but we lay out a tack strip on the driveway so it punctures the tires of the Uber driver’s vehicle. It’s a slow leak that gives the driver time to make it 2-3 miles away before getting stranded. If we’re going to be paying 50% more in nonsensical fees, taxes, tips, and inflated prices, it’s only fair to redirect some commensurate inconvenience and cost right back at them. BTW, we ONLY do this when the driver arrives later than the original delivery time estimate.
Arrive late to an unfortunate fate, that’s our motto!
Anonymous
10/14/2022 17:31
Subject: Re:I’m officially done with Uber
Here's what happened: Uber got huge amounts of investor money, with the mandate to grow market share and edge out the competitors. Both for car service and food delivery.
To do this, they offered huge discounts both with promo codes, but also just offering cheap prices. They "ate" a lot of those costs. Well, the investors did.
Now they're a public company and investors aren't as cool with massive losses (they still lose plenty though), so Uber has been charging the real market price and no longer subsidizing. It's why Uber rides have gone up too. I paid $90 to go from Dulles Airport to Bethesda last week. Usually it's $50-60 in all times of day.
To do this, they offered huge discounts both with promo codes, but also just offering cheap prices. They "ate" a lot of those costs. Well, the investors did.
Now they're a public company and investors aren't as cool with massive losses (they still lose plenty though), so Uber has been charging the real market price and no longer subsidizing. It's why Uber rides have gone up too. I paid $90 to go from Dulles Airport to Bethesda last week. Usually it's $50-60 in all times of day.
Anonymous
10/14/2022 17:23
Subject: I’m officially done with Uber
Anonymous wrote:I have no idea how people are cool with COMPLETE randos delivering their food. Hell no. I wouldn't do that if it were free, let alone $10-30. I honestly don't even like to do pizza delivery, but at least then it's typically a local kid from the area. With uber and grubhub, it's the weirdest random people. Hell no.
Never lived in a city, huh?
Anonymous
10/14/2022 06:37
Subject: I’m officially done with Uber
I got an offer for six months of free Uber One and $25 of my first order. So I used that promo to order food one time and then closed my Uber One account after it was delivered. It only saved me $10 vs me picking it up. But whatever, I'll take their $10 and I figured I'd give the service a try. It was convenient but also kind of weird having someone deliver food I normally pick up myself.
Anonymous
10/13/2022 21:27
Subject: I’m officially done with Uber
I have no idea how people are cool with COMPLETE randos delivering their food. Hell no. I wouldn't do that if it were free, let alone $10-30. I honestly don't even like to do pizza delivery, but at least then it's typically a local kid from the area. With uber and grubhub, it's the weirdest random people. Hell no.
Anonymous
10/12/2022 01:43
Subject: Re:I’m officially done with Uber
One quibble is sometimes the delivery menu prices might be higher on the restaurant's initiative, because the services might charge THEM a cut as well.
I definitely saw it once when the print sushi restaurant menu had lower prices than the online menu, which was thru a "menupages" type site (which door dash and such might even try to scrub themselves without asking the restaurant, I believe I read about this).
I definitely saw it once when the print sushi restaurant menu had lower prices than the online menu, which was thru a "menupages" type site (which door dash and such might even try to scrub themselves without asking the restaurant, I believe I read about this).