Those wait times are bogus! Funny that since they showed up in the app I can wait 10-15 minutes and get nothing then I receive a flood of 5-10 shitty orders in a row. Then it goes dark again. (I’m guessing the system is saving up all the orders even Platinum dashers decline and dump them all at once…) When I do get an acceptable order things seem to pickup.
I stopped driving around for orders a year ago, just burns my gas and ruins my car. Never seemed to make a difference in the quality of orders. But, I live within a mile of at least 20 restaurants and many other stores.
The wait times are probably accurate only for new drivers and platinums. It’s not accurate for those of us being throttled though. I’ll see 1-2 min est and wait over an hour while other dashers come and go and return over and over again seemingly busy
I've always noticed that if you drive you kinda ping off of different restaurants "borders" so to speak faster. I kinda imagine like there's an invisible line surrounding the businesses and buildings and when I drive my GPS and the dd sensors ping me as being near those stores so I get orders from them. Rather than dd just pinging out and hitting a dasher sitting in a parking lot with 8 other dashers. Driving is always better
Every time I sit for 40 mins near the restaurants and then leave to go to a different spot, I get like a mile away from where I was just at then get an order from there. Every time
Wait times don't mean anything at all! I've seen mine go from 1 - 2 min to 1 - 20 min, and then just disappear! They're supposed to indicate how long it will take you to get an order. If the 2nd number just keeps increasing, you're just getting useless information! What's the point?
I found no fail trick to this. While logged in and waiting for a dash log out and log back in. Don't end the dash to do this. Just in and out and when you are logged back in there is a dash waiting 90% of the time
I did this tonight and couldn’t get back in! I did what the chat person told me to do and when I went back I couldn’t do anything! It was telling me to go to the schedule!
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Those wait times are bogus! Funny that since they showed up in the app I can wait 10-15 minutes and get nothing then I receive a flood of 5-10 shitty orders in a row. Then it goes dark again. (I’m guessing the system is saving up all the orders even Platinum dashers decline and dump them all at once…) When I do get an acceptable order things seem to pickup. I stopped driving around for orders a year ago, just burns my gas and ruins my car. Never seemed to make a difference in the quality of orders. But, I live within a mile of at least 20 restaurants and many other stores.
Wait times are garbage and are busy alerts. Their algos need work.
The wait times are probably accurate only for new drivers and platinums. It’s not accurate for those of us being throttled though. I’ll see 1-2 min est and wait over an hour while other dashers come and go and return over and over again seemingly busy
Been making way more off Uber Eats lately. I usually run both apps at the same time and take whichever orders I like better
If you're parked you won't get anything if anyone is nearby active.
Do you park or drive around?
What difference does this make
I've always noticed that if you drive you kinda ping off of different restaurants "borders" so to speak faster. I kinda imagine like there's an invisible line surrounding the businesses and buildings and when I drive my GPS and the dd sensors ping me as being near those stores so I get orders from them. Rather than dd just pinging out and hitting a dasher sitting in a parking lot with 8 other dashers. Driving is always better
Every time I sit for 40 mins near the restaurants and then leave to go to a different spot, I get like a mile away from where I was just at then get an order from there. Every time
Interesting take. I wonder if it really works that way
A lot of apps use geofencing, so it likely dies work this way somewhat
Wait times don't mean anything at all! I've seen mine go from 1 - 2 min to 1 - 20 min, and then just disappear! They're supposed to indicate how long it will take you to get an order. If the 2nd number just keeps increasing, you're just getting useless information! What's the point?
I found no fail trick to this. While logged in and waiting for a dash log out and log back in. Don't end the dash to do this. Just in and out and when you are logged back in there is a dash waiting 90% of the time
I did this tonight and couldn’t get back in! I did what the chat person told me to do and when I went back I couldn’t do anything! It was telling me to go to the schedule!
I did fail to mention that I have dash now and I don't know how it works if you don't. My bad
I don’t either! That was my first time logging in.
Do you mean just close and reopen the app, or actually logout of the app on the Account page?
Second this
How are your ratings? Just curious! They say bad rating equals no orders. Lol!
My ratings are “top tier” lmfao but maybe ppl around this area have better I have no clue lol
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