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Manvo

order got clusterfluffed. Just curious what happens to the shopper

OK so we (GF and I) got an order today. She put it in while I was working and I got out early. We did not get a knock or a notification that the order had been delivered so we were a bit surprised. When we found it, it was blatantly obvious that it wasn't our order. Our shopper was grabbing a couple orders at once and delivered to the wrong address. We contacted IC and were issued a re-deliver order to be completed in 2 hours or less and told to just keep the other order to do with whatever we pleased. About an hour later, after our new shopper has already begun picking up our new order, the OG driver showed back up with a small portion of our original order. She said she noticed some stuff still in the back and realized it must have been ours. We brought the bags in (they were loud...like LOUD LOUD) and updated our new shopper that we had received some of the things from our first order, but not everything. We updated the cart accordingly and now I'm just here wondering. Does the money from the first order get charged to the ganja loving shopper? Does IC have insurance for mishaps like this? Will the tip we left for Mary Jane get transferred over to the new driver? IC said it would, but the order screen shows 0 tip. I took out a 10 spot from the ATM just to be safe. I'm just wondering what happens to the shoppers when things like this happen. I can't possibly be the first one.

Edit: Grammar

Edit 2: update. So or second order arrived with 0 problems. I had my gf throw an extra 5 in cash on the tip since this new shopper was nice enough to accept the delivery order without a tip in the first place. So we received the remainder of our order and the second driver got $15 for a relatively small order. We were unable to change the tip for the original driver. Oh well. Such is life.

Posted Feb 12, 2021, 11:28 PM UTC · edited

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FunFactress•

It really bugs me that IC puts out batches to be re-shopped with 0 tip. They are getting shopped again because a shopper screwed up but higher rated shoppers aren't going to touch a no tip order so the chance of having another issue is greater. Thanks for recognizing there was no tip on your second order and taking care of the shopper.

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ButtleyHugz•

I have had a few instances where I waited 2 hours and never got my food, and they offer to either refund or send out the order again. I always choose refund, and I guess that's what I'll keep doing bc that scares me.

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elfarolDF•

New shopper does not get the tip and you should $0 the tip from ganja head and give him bad rating, that is just insane. Those people are the ones who make everybody look bad.. Good shoppers are stuck with low paying order cause all the customers are tired of paying for messed up orders and careless people ( rightfully so)

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Hydrocodope•

The ganja head 😭😭

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ManvoOP•

In fairness it is legal here. And I couldn't really care less what people do on their own time. I was just surprised at how strong the smell was.

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Hydrocodope•

Legal or not, shoppers should never smoke in the car while they’re delivering that’s just terrible. Sorry that happened to y’all

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elfarolDF•

Yeah that’s the thing.. I don’t care if people smoke but the smell..!!!

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ManvoOP•

GF already left a pretty scathing review. I'll let her know to cancel the previous tip though. Thank you.

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tatiwati316•

We dont see any reviews other than 5 star reviews...

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ManvoOP•

You mean on the shopper side of the equation?

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tatiwati316•

Yep... shoppers only see the comments of 5 star reviews... you have to leave 5 stars and then you can write whatever you want...

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Usual-Canc-6024•

You can write whatever you want with a lower star rating. The shopper will have to contact support to find out what was said.

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lljc1967•

And I’m not sure they tell the truth when we call support cuz I’ve had a 3 star and 2 4 stars after staying at a 5 for months and months and support told me they didn’t give a reason. Come on 3 people didn’t give reasons?

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ButtleyHugz•

I got a delivery last week that was SOOOOO DAMN LOUD! Look, I’m into it myself, but that’s just disrespectful. I smelled it on my damn porch and the driver was long gone. Not cool.

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sckjwindow•

Loud is new terminology to me. I get the meaning through context, but I guess I’m officially old. And probably square too. 😬😂😩

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ButtleyHugz•

LOL hey I'm 40 and definitely read it a few times before it registered with me. I know the term, just used to a certain tone of voice that accompanies it.

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