LPT: Don’t tip through delivery apps, tip in person.

Submitted by mambomak t3_12600gi in LifeProTips

There’s times where I order through a delivery app and something happens with the order. For instance, the order was never picked up or the driver was running really late, but there’s not even a notification about it. Sometimes it updates itself, but this is nearly a half-hour after it should have been delivered. And going through customer service to remove your tip is a real pain and a drain on MY time.

So, instead, I stop tipping through the app and leave a message, when possible, that I will tip at the door. That way I can decide whether or not to tip and it also gives an incentive to be on time and the driver to not be flippant with your order.

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itsMousy t1_je6uhht wrote

The vast majority of them won’t pick up your order if you don’t tip first.

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mambomak OP t1_je78bq0 wrote

Yikes... I'll just avoid it altogether than.

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ChrisGeritol t1_je6t5wj wrote

Many drivers decline deliveries that don't have tips. Good luck with your brilliant idea. Good drivers aren't delivering your stuff for the shitty price the delivery service pays.

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mambomak OP t1_je78ejc wrote

I've been getting bad drivers regardless if I tipped. So it doesn't matter much...

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evanlang t1_je6t0u0 wrote

Enjoy never getting your food or a getting cold food!

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Cid_Darkwing t1_je70nyp wrote

Yeah—I have over 15,000 deliveries under my belt; this has been my FT job for 3 years now since the pandemic. I can tell you in no uncertain terms that no driver worth a shit is taking your order until it has mold growing on it if that’s your MO.

The apps pay less than the IRS deduction rate per mile. Drivers have zero guarantee that your word is good that you’ll tip afterwards, and zero recourse if you lie (other than to blacklist you—which we will). You can argue all you want that it’s not your responsibility to pay us, but guess what? We’re all independent contractors—none of us are required to take any order we don’t want to, and none of us are doing this as a charitable endeavor.

The restaurants are guaranteed their money once the order is marked ready for pickup, so they have no incentive to do anything. And while the apps themselves will raise the base pay after a certain number of declines, it’s a stair step slow as hell process that guarantees your food will have been sitting out well past the time it was fresh.

So really, it’s up to you. Sure, you might get a n00b every now and again who will jump on that $3 for 9 miles during the lunch rush because they don’t know any better. But more often than not, you can either tilt at windmills on principle and get cold ass stale food (which you’ll then stiff the driver out of a tip for anyway because it took so long and it’s no longer hot), or, you can recognize that you are partaking in a luxury service of convenience and pay the person responsible for providing it accordingly.

You get what you pay for.

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mambomak OP t1_je792fi wrote

I think I'll just avoid that service. It's overpriced anyway...

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RedditDK2 t1_je7339u wrote

I agree with this in principle - but in practice the odds are no one will pick up your order if there is no tip. What I would love to see is a rating system somewhat like eBay where both the delivery driver and person doing the order gets feedback. Drivers that don't maintain a certain level of customer satisfaction aren't allowed to pick up orders. Tips are only given after the fact. But at the same time drivers give feedback on customers. So a customer with a history of not tipping won't get their order picked up.

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mambomak OP t1_je799nh wrote

Gotcha. I think I'll just avoid the service and run down there. I shouldn't be so lazy anyway, lol.

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Bryan_Mills2020 t1_jea0ulx wrote

I hear InstaCart customers will wait until their grocery order is accepted and then they will go into the app to remove the tip and double the order.

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SerenityNowWow t1_je6ujnu wrote

I agree. Never ever tip before the service is rendered.

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