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Deliveroo users are getting defrauded

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Re: Deliveroo users are getting defrauded

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Post by OliverJones »

CaptainZapp wrote: post #102

“Deliveroo takes online security very seriously. Sadly fraudsters rely on the fact that people reuse the same passwords on multiple online services to try and gain entry to different accounts across the web.” Yeah! Blame it on your customers! Way to go! Sigh! Another gig economy service I'm damn sure never to use.

"...takes online security very seriously..." That is a statement that means its exact opposite. If you get breached, don't let that phrase creep into your announcement. Just say "We were breached. We're sorry. We're cleaning up the mess." or whatever.

Re: Deliveroo users are getting defrauded

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Post by vollmond »

iagooar wrote: post #177
talltimtom wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What’s immoral here? You know someone who can’t work so you let him rent your phone so he can work. I mean it’s not respecting the law, but it’s no more immoral than companies renting out cars, houses, or tools used by others to earn a living.

The author wrote that some people would make other people do the work, taking a cut. Given, that people who work themselves at Deliveroo already struggle to get a decent salary, then yes, it is immoral.

The person with the account is providing a benefit in return for that cut, though -- the account itself and the attached phone. It's not slavery, any more than Amazon taking a cut of sales through their website is.

I fail to see how the citizen in this case is harming the non-citizen.

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Post by ams6110 »

pbalau wrote: post #67
skh wrote: post #60

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I think I’m old fashioned but I just don’t understand the appeal of these food delivery services. My friend’s son uses Postmates to order fast food and it seems absurd to me. I must be missing something about theses services given their popularity. Do you mind explaining why you use them?

I think you are just trying to be that guy. I go to this website, pick what I want, pay and some time later what I ordered gets delivered to my door. What's there to get?

Fast food is pretty bad when it's fresh. It's awful after it's been in transit for 20-30 minutes or more. The idea of spending $10 or more to get a lukewarm burger and mushy limp french fries has no appeal to me.

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Post by skh »

pbalau wrote: post #67
skh wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think I’m old fashioned but I just don’t understand the appeal of these food delivery services. My friend’s son uses Postmates to order fast food and it seems absurd to me. I must be missing something about theses services given their popularity. Do you mind explaining why you use them?

I think you are just trying to be that guy. I go to this website, pick what I want, pay and some time later what I ordered gets delivered to my door. What's there to get?

Fast food is usually only palatable hot. By the time it gets delivered it’s cold, no? Also fast food is cheap and the delivery cost is a large percentage of the overall bill. I mean a $10 meal ends up being $20.

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Post by skh »

mikestew wrote: post #161
skh wrote: post #60

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I think I’m old fashioned but I just don’t understand the appeal of these food delivery services. My friend’s son uses Postmates to order fast food and it seems absurd to me. I must be missing something about theses services given their popularity. Do you mind explaining why you use them?

I think I’m old fashioned but I just don’t understand the appeal of these food delivery services. "Old-fashioned"? Nice try, Grandpa. I'm approaching retirement, and delivery of restaurant food has been a thing since before I was born. Hell, Domino's was founded in 1960.

But not fast food delivery. This is a recent thing. And most restaurants didn’t do delivery. I don’t see the point of ordering a meal that is best eaten hot to be delivered when it comes to the house warm.

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Post by ams6110 »

unforeseen9991 wrote: post #31
martinald wrote: post #14

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But what you going to do with 3 £100+ takeaway orders back to back? You can hardly resell it!

Put it in the fridge or freezer? Why would they ever sell it at a loss? Everyone needs food, so they get the value by consuming it themselves.

When you're not paying for it in the first place, there's no "loss." It's all profit.

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Post by skh »

stronglikedan wrote: post #181
skh wrote: post #60

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I think I’m old fashioned but I just don’t understand the appeal of these food delivery services. My friend’s son uses Postmates to order fast food and it seems absurd to me. I must be missing something about theses services given their popularity. Do you mind explaining why you use them?

I know, right‽‽‽ I don't even know why people pay other people to cook for them! Absolutely preposterous!

I’ve paid people to cook things for me. I’ve paid someone to cook shitty fast food for me. I’ve never paid someone to deliver that shitty fast food to me. When it arrives it is at best warm and even more disgusting. I don’t see the appeal of these services. It’s much better to get the food when it is hot. At least in my opinion. My friend’s son spends several hundred dollars a month is delivery charges. I certainly don’t understand doing that.

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Post by bosie »

tyfon wrote: post #99
skh wrote: post #60

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I think I’m old fashioned but I just don’t understand the appeal of these food delivery services. My friend’s son uses Postmates to order fast food and it seems absurd to me. I must be missing something about theses services given their popularity. Do you mind explaining why you use them?

I do not use Deliveroo but what sounds like something similar in my area. I live 20 minutes outside of a small town in Norway and the restaurants/kebab shops don't generate enough take-away business to provide this service themselves. There is another company that does that for them and services all making take-away possible at all. Now this company actually operates with a time guarantee, that is if the food is not…

genuine question, how can food stay warm/fresh if you have to drive 20-30 minutes with it? how often do you get the food cold?

Re: Deliveroo users are getting defrauded

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Post by jwdunne »

tomp wrote: post #150
jwdunne wrote: post #123

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If I recall, there's no distinction between an en masse data leak and someone being able to access your personal info without authority under GDPR. Both are a data breech. It seems like many people have been affected by this too so clearly Deliveroo doesn't have the mechanisms in place to protect user information. The fact unauthorized people can spend your money through Deliveroo is even worse. Deliveroo are respons…

> there's no distinction between an en masse data leak and someone being able to access your personal info without authority under GDPR. Both are a data breech. It seems like many people have been affected by this too so clearly Deliveroo doesn't have the mechanisms in place to protect user information. The fact unauthorized people can spend your money through Deliveroo is even worse Well, the distionction can be as…

That'd be a valid excuse if you're not safeguarding personal and sensitive data. But is that the most you can do to protect the addresses and some level of access to somebody's money?
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