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Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage

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Post by ornornor »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #220

I cut this deal with my neighborhood Italian restaurant! I texted the owner about being miffed they hadn’t told me they were on DoorDash. He replied. They aren’t. We compared pricing, and found the prices advertised are way off from what the restaurant charges. So I placed a $5,000 order to the neighbourhood homeless shelter. DoorDash paid him over $20,000, and I get free pasta for the rest of the year. (My neighbour…

What was the deal? You pay 5,000, the owner gave you back your 5,000 and kept the 15,000 as profit from door dash? The owner made a massive profit and the shelter gets free food and it didn’t cost you anything?

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Post by quickthrower2 »

three14 wrote: post #223

The real arbitrage opportunity is for a competitor to DoorDash to place orders through DoorDash, and pay the delivery person a small fee plus let the delivery person collect the DoorDash fee. You could scale this up to huge numbers. Curious if doing so would survive a lawsuit. On the one hand, DoorDash could argue that it's unfair competition, but only by admitting that their deliveries are priced too low, which itse…

What if you set up a fake Pizza website "Super Pizzas", that advertises the Pizza for $16. That site then places the order with DoorDash automatically.

Then Doordash will scrape "Super Pizzas" and sell those for say $12.

Then set up another site "Supper Pizzas 2" selling the $12 Pizzas, buying from Doordash, and then Doordash will scrape that and sell them for $9.

Repeat until you have a site selling $1 Pizzas, then get that posted on Lifehacker!

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Post by jimbob45 »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #220

I cut this deal with my neighborhood Italian restaurant! I texted the owner about being miffed they hadn’t told me they were on DoorDash. He replied. They aren’t. We compared pricing, and found the prices advertised are way off from what the restaurant charges. So I placed a $5,000 order to the neighbourhood homeless shelter. DoorDash paid him over $20,000, and I get free pasta for the rest of the year. (My neighbour…

This really makes me happy but I hope you delete this before it becomes mainstream and DD catches on.

Re: Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage

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Post by Dylan16807 »

sneak wrote: post #222
Dylan16807 wrote: post #210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

$15/hr plus tips plus mileage is overkill. Let's say you cut out the awful feature that is tipping and make it $15/hr plus mileage, which is a perfectly good wage. If I was previously paying $6-7 in fee+tip for a limited selection of restaurants, I'd be okay paying $10 for places that don't normally have delivery. If that means two trips per hour, and you're not in one of the ten worst cities for traffic in the entir…

You forgot wear and tear on the car, and gas. 15/hr is decent without additional expenses. Take out gas and tires and brakes and maintenance and it's poverty level.

No I didn't, that's part of mileage.

Re: Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

ornornor wrote: post #231
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #220

I cut this deal with my neighborhood Italian restaurant! I texted the owner about being miffed they hadn’t told me they were on DoorDash. He replied. They aren’t. We compared pricing, and found the prices advertised are way off from what the restaurant charges. So I placed a $5,000 order to the neighbourhood homeless shelter. DoorDash paid him over $20,000, and I get free pasta for the rest of the year. (My neighbour…

What was the deal? You pay 5,000, the owner gave you back your 5,000 and kept the 15,000 as profit from door dash? The owner made a massive profit and the shelter gets free food and it didn’t cost you anything?

> The owner made a massive profit and the shelter gets free food and it didn’t cost you anything?

We’re in the midst of a pandemic. The restaurant stays afloat, nothing more. The shelter got a donation, and I got promises of comped deliveries and catering.

It cost me $5,000; it cost DoorDash over twenty thousand.

Re: Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage

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Post by Apocryphon »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #235
ornornor wrote: post #231

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What was the deal? You pay 5,000, the owner gave you back your 5,000 and kept the 15,000 as profit from door dash? The owner made a massive profit and the shelter gets free food and it didn’t cost you anything?

> The owner made a massive profit and the shelter gets free food and it didn’t cost you anything? We’re in the midst of a pandemic. The restaurant stays afloat, nothing more. The shelter got a donation, and I got promises of comped deliveries and catering. It cost me $5,000; it cost DoorDash over twenty thousand.

Time for some cross-platform integration: start GoFundMes to crowdfund arbitrage of SoftBank derivatives in support of local small businesses.

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Post by ficklepickle »

jldugger wrote: post #181
inquiryaccount wrote: post #153

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From what I can gather, it is a ring of people behind this operation likely getting a commission for each 'drop' back at base https://www.google.com/maps/place/101+bowery+st/@40.7176021,...

So money laundering

Clearly the hotel business is a thin cover. One reviewer mentions dust as though the room hadn't been used recently.

The reviews are incredible.

https://www.tripadvisor.ca/Hotel_Review-g60763-d267183-Revie...

Re: Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

bransonf wrote: post #15

Reading the title, I anticipated this was going to be something along the lines of getting Domino's delivered for less than their delivery fee. (Side note, does anyone actually order franchise pizza on an app? They all already deliver for far less) But this was far more interesting. The fact that Doordash scrapes prices, and apparently doesn't verify... how does this happen? I'm not familiar with the reimbursement mo…

>If it's trivial to get listed, and potentially with the wrong prices, then it's trivial to launder money this way.

If it's trivial to launder money this way then it is a really good idea to build your own food delivery service and start doing all sorts of money laundering through it.

Re: Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage

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Post by PopeDotNinja »

hnick wrote: post #201
Barrin92 wrote: post #168

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I honestly don't know if I'm living in a different world than everyone else but I've been ordering food and taking cabs all my life and I've never had to deal with any friction. Like, you call the pizzeria, tell them what you want and then some college student delivers your stuff, and if you order for more than 20 bucks it doesn't cost you anything. Not even being facetious, but what problem do these apps solve? I al…

I dunno, even at physical restaurants or cafes I often have issues where they didn't hear my order correctly. Just today I had a guy repeat my order (thank you to people who do this, it's the only way) and he'd forgotten the cheese. Phone calls to ethnic restaurants (as with GP, no offense intended) are another layer of trouble. With my local noisy Indonesian restaurant we had a 50% miss rate on our orders so usually…

I almost never have problems making custom food orders in the USA, even when the order taker is not a native English speaker.

"I'd like a cheeseburger, only lettuce and ketchup."

But when I visited Australia, I had a much harder time placing the same order. Most of the order takers there were not native English speakers, and I learned pretty quickly that the difference between American English and Australian English was bigger than I realized.

Language is interesting.

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