Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage

Post by inquiryaccount » Mon, May 18, 2020, 4:27 AM UTC

MattGaiser wrote: post #141

walrus01 wrote: post #139

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I bet the person physically receiving the wine/goods is some gullible, naive person who has been social engineered into thinking they're working for a legit business. It's like the 419 emails where they are trying to "recruit a remote working employee in our finance department" where your job is actually to receive fraudulent ACH wire transfers and send the money to some overseas destinations, go to a bitcoin ATM and…

Or, it is the age of social distancing. Just order it to a random address and steal it off the porch/lobby area.

Post by inquiryaccount » Mon, May 18, 2020, 4:29 AM UTC

walrus01 wrote: post #139

inquiryaccount wrote: post #51

This reminds me of a post I submitted a few weeks ago on HN. A friend of mine works for a restaurant group in NYC and they like many they have had to respond by offering delivery to folks in order to keep some revenue flowing. He and I were chatting and he mentioned that lately, a large majority of high value ($500+) orders were fraudulent with the fraudster ordering things that can be resold such as high-value wine,…

I bet the person physically receiving the wine/goods is some gullible, naive person who has been social engineered into thinking they're working for a legit business. It's like the 419 emails where they are trying to "recruit a remote working employee in our finance department" where your job is actually to receive fraudulent ACH wire transfers and send the money to some overseas destinations, go to a bitcoin ATM and…

Post by vinayan3 » Mon, May 18, 2020, 4:30 AM UTC

xkcd-sucks wrote: post #44

throwaway_dflka wrote: post #11

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It's an interesting question. I suspect there's some trademark arguments to be made regarding confusion as to who is providing the product and service and whose failures any mistakes reflect. That kind of attribution, and the product quality it promotes, is one of the central purposes of trademark law. But there's also the first sale doctrine--that after you sell your physical product, people can do with it as they p…

All the regulation around food and beverage sales stands to the contrary - Normal people can't resell liquor, nor resell takeout food from a licensed restaurant. Relatedly, it's surprising that delivery times aren't monitored because of (totally appropriate!) food safety laws on holding food at proper temperature

Post by JMTQp8lwXL » Mon, May 18, 2020, 4:30 AM UTC

inquiryaccount wrote: post #117

Oh, one other interesting thing I've heard happens regularly. Couriers have multiple cellular devices. The second account usually get batched orders from the same restaurant they are already at which leads to a host of problems for the customer and restaurant. This leads to the order that was ready first to just sit and die in the courier bag while they work to maximize their earnings. Couriers sometimes leave before…

Post by dylz » Mon, May 18, 2020, 4:32 AM UTC

walrus01 wrote: post #149

dylz wrote: post #107

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The driver pays with a Doordash prepaid-reloadable card. When the driver GPS-checkins at the restaurant they're picking an item up at, the card is loaded with the exact balance the restaurant is "supposed to charge"

I wonder to what extent the back end software supporting this is identical to, or similar to, what Moviepass created.