DoorDash Outage • Hacker News Board

Re: DoorDash Outage

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Post by poisonarena » Thu, Oct 06, 2022, 2:27 AM UTC

ajsnigrutin wrote: post #11

cloudking wrote: post #3

Oh no, how do I get my $22 burrito now?

We have different delivery services in my country (mostly wolt and glovo), and yep, they fucked the prices of food here. They probably take 20-30% of the item price from the restaurant (+charge delivery extra)... so eating inside or takeout should be cheaper.. but nope, to keep the prices consistent, pretty much everyone raised all their prices to the delivery levels. I did start cooking more though.

Israel? I have never ordered food because I knew it would be insane.. Are you telling me ordering wolt is about as cheap as ordering take out?

Re: DoorDash Outage

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Post by pbj1968 » Thu, Oct 06, 2022, 2:38 AM UTC

My very large company got us all “free” premium Door Dash accounts, and then Door Dash starting classifying our IPs as bots and blocked us from promos.

Our company has now blocked the Door Dash website from our networks.

Yet the premium accounts remain unabated.

Re: DoorDash Outage

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Post by soulofmischief » Thu, Oct 06, 2022, 3:02 AM UTC

NonNefarious wrote: post #32

soulofmischief wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried switching to Postmates today and was presented with 5 different fees including taxes, only 1 of which was actually covered by their subscription service. This is in contrast to Door Dash, which only had 3 fees (delivery, service fee, & taxes), which were mostly covered by their subscription. So I have to hand it to DD, despite all of their flaws with transparency, they're a more transparent about fee structur…

Their entire service IS delivery, so WTF is the "service" fee? It's still an insulting rip-off.

I agree, it's still shady. I don't understand why less scummy businesses can't seem to make it in this space.

Re: DoorDash Outage

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Post by SOLAR_FIELDS » Thu, Oct 06, 2022, 3:49 AM UTC

stevehawk wrote: post #38

nmeagent wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also some restaurants have apparently started contracting out some of their 'normal' deliveries to these entities, so it can be difficult to avoid them entirely even if you're deliberately trying not to do business with them.

my local papa johns franchise outsourced its delivery to... doordash :-/

Someone else reported that some Pizza Huts are doing this as well. I believe Dominos still uses only their own employees to deliver.

Re: DoorDash Outage

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Post by NonNefarious » Thu, Oct 06, 2022, 9:10 PM UTC

genocidicbunny wrote: post #40

NonNefarious wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not about the price YOU, the customer pay. It's about the scumbaggery that these lowlives perpetrate on restaurant owners. The best one is how they impersonate the restaurants online, hijacking their online presence and setting up fake numbers as the restaurants' own. Never use food-delivery services. Not only are they scammers, but they (and this is first-hand observation) mess with, eat, or take your food into…

It's actually also about the price the customer pays. I've seen plenty of restaurants raise their prices across the board (even if you call them up yourself and order carryout) because DoorDash et al take such a high cut. It's one thing if only DoorDash orders were more expensive, but those fuckers made it expensive for all of us, even those that don't use DoorDash.

I was responding to the OP's willingness to pay extra for DoorDash. I agree with your complaint.

Of course some infantile shut-in or DoorDash shill downmodded my straightforward observation. Every day this site descends into Redditude.

Re: DoorDash Outage

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Post by ajsnigrutin » Thu, Oct 06, 2022, 9:30 PM UTC

poisonarena wrote: post #41

ajsnigrutin wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We have different delivery services in my country (mostly wolt and glovo), and yep, they fucked the prices of food here. They probably take 20-30% of the item price from the restaurant (+charge delivery extra)... so eating inside or takeout should be cheaper.. but nope, to keep the prices consistent, pretty much everyone raised all their prices to the delivery levels. I did start cooking more though.

Israel? I have never ordered food because I knew it would be insane.. Are you telling me ordering wolt is about as cheap as ordering take out?

Slovenia.

I'm saying that stuff used to be eg. 7eur if you either picked it up or ate inside. Then wolt came, and due to wolts taking a percentage of the price, the price was 9 or even 10eur + delivery fee if you ordered on wolt, and because people complained (because the in-restaurant price was still 7eur), they raised the price to 10eur in the restaurant too.