Is this real life? But we complain too much right?
Posted Dec 9, 2018, 7:32 PM UTC
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Wow, that's just a blatent rip off. They are really having the customer shoulder our pay!
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Yup because new shoppers who don’t understand the pay will happily take it and they won’t realize they have been ripped off until they actually realize how much gas and maintenance they spend this month .
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Yup, a minimum of a $33 wage decrease(using $7 old system delivery commission), would be even more with LOB
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Looks like the large order bump would’ve been $10 on old system
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I'm sure someone will take it, sad but true!
$400 order! 🤦🏻♂️
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In my zone, yeah they will definitely take it. I see large $10 orders get taken all the time. Not sure what those people are thinking.
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That shopping is easy and quick. I’ve learned that any order with 40 or more diverse items I won’t take less than $50 because that shit takes 2 hours just to shop for and checkout. It sucks when half the order is soda and water bottles and boxes of chips shit takes 3 carts and you get mad stares from people thinking you are a spoiled 20 yo baller.
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Many people are, seriously, stupid. It doesn't take long to figure out that you should expect to take about one minute shopping, per item, on average. This gig really requires a lot of math on the fly to actually be good at it and stick with it. Add on about 2-5 minutes checkout time for most orders (again, on average)... Then, you get to calculate your time to the store and from there to the customer. If you don't do these things, you are almost certainly being taken advantage of... Not you, obviously! ;)
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That would not be me.
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That's a hell no. Our tips are OURS not theirs! They don't get to use them to pay us crap! This will catch up to them mark my words.
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Man that sucks. I’m so sorry. I ended up getting a full time job and Instacart is still asking me to pick up random shifts. I want to, but I know it’ll be a waste of time because of shit like this.
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And there are people in hear talking shit saying that we're only making less because we don't accept every shit batch they throw at us. 🙄 I'll be damned if I'm ever going to lower my standards or sell myself out and start accepting shit like this. Let all those holier than thou people who take everything have this shit. Because they deserve it.
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And it sucks because the customer left a generous tip, but now they’ll never get their groceries delivered.
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That is so fucked up.
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I did an order similar to this last week for $98.
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I think overall I’ll be making more per batch. It’s Sunday and the $7.45 delivery commission is less than the $10 minimum per batch on the new pay system. I’m all for making more money.
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Good luck. However, your optimism is likely clouding your judgement unless all you do all day is 1-5 item orders that don't include deli, water, or anything else really heavy or time consuming and, even then, mainly only from stores that you can be in and out of in no time.
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Yeah, the delivery commission is less than the $10 minimum, but you're forgetting that they took away the guaranteed delivery commission, item commission, large order bump, club bumps and replaced the long distance bump.
On this order the item commission ALONE would've been $32.80, $3 less than what instacart whats to pay including the tip. So this is a loss of at minumum $33. You would essentially have to work for free on 3 other $10 minimum batches to recoup your wage decrease.
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$7.57 for 82 items 😂
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What if you refund any item will the pay decrease too?!
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The batch incentive won't but the tip definitely will.
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Oh... what about customer decided to add an item or 2 half way thru the shopping. Or I got a customer that just put a note and ask to add 2 or 3 items(fruits) probably they can’t find in the app?! We won’t get pay extra??
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Adding items can only increase the tip if it's a percentage, the batch incentive would remain the same.
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Imagine if customer take away the tip. All that hard-work you put into for $7-11
With that many items you know there will be replacements and refunds too so tip likely will decrease at minimum.
Yeah, that’s why I try not to accept any order that tips high and low payment for instacart. It sucks
Because tips are extra money 😢😭😡
Replacements shouldn’t hurt the overall total that much though. Refunds, yes.
Not the total, just the customer's satisfaction.