Testing A NEW DoorDash Dasher Feature (It Did Not Go Well…)

I drove for DoorDash to test the new Dasher Preferences feature allowing Dashers to turn off certain offer types. See how much (or how little) I made.

🖥Video Chapters🖥
0:00 - Cherry Picking Multi-Apping
0:27 - How To Cherry Pick Offers
1:16 - Dasher Preferences
1:36 - How To Multi-App (Example)
2:24 - Declining Low Dollar Offers
2:37 - Slow Shift Start
3:13 - Opt In To Shop & Deliver
3:35 - Why Is Your Shift Slow?
4:11 - DoorDash High Paying Offer (Resent)
5:01 - Problem With Smaller Gig Apps
5:59 - Sample Size
6:46 - First Accepted High Paying Offer
7:25 - Would You Accept This Uber Eats Offer?
8:04 - Immediate Accept Or Wait?
9:01 - Complete Earnings Breakdown & Verdict

*The thumbnail of this video is for illustrative purposes only and does not represent an actual DoorDash Dasher app screen.

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[xVndt]

I DD in Pittsburgh, in the south hills to Robinson areas. I just got to platinum 2 months ago and have been averaging $20-$25/hr daily. Even a $40/hr during a Wednesday night. Being a Platinum dasher has been amazing for me

[Jim_Delivers]

I think the saturation so many people have noticed is actually because of the shop and delivers. They've been growing their order volume tremendously, but since they know a lot of dashers won't shop, they have to hire way more dashers for the same volume

[bmills]

Oh I want dasher preferences! Jealous. Good luck Mike. 🎉

[byte]

I did dash by time and I can't believe the orders I got. 30% tipped. The ones who didn't tip kinda frustrating that they would allow them to not tip going 10 miles. I took my time of course 😂

[iyehp]

I dropped down from Platinum to Gold on DoorDash over the weekend. The orders have been so bad I've just been sticking with UberEats because at least they don't punish you for declining offers taking your little titles and stars away, freeze you out or send five $2 orders in a row. I'd rather just deliver wine and big bags of dog food on UberEats for more money.

[jesses]

@YourDriverMike You remember when the market was good. I remember seeing you once at the Washington Red Robin years ago. Those were the good times, too bad it will never be like that again. Gone are the days of averaging 1, 700 per week in the Pittsburgh market. Due to the sharp market decline we can no longer cherry-pick, it's slim picking as it is. I laid delivery to rest for good last August after over 14, 000 combine deliveries on DD and Uber. I moved on to an oil field job, it's stressful at times but we're making that money. Here it is possible to make 4K+ per week if you're on the right job!

[LarryBeard-wmrd]

Is July a bad month for food deliveries? Maybe it’s just an historically bad month?

[kev]

Mid afternoons and mid mornings are often the best time to turn on shop and deliver. I'm noticing in my market that lunch shifts are usually pretty good for me from about 11:30 to 1:00. The dollars are less because I get several fast food single meal sorts of orders but the miles are low for the most part. I will go out 4:30-5:00 PM for my short evening shifts and the first hour can be pretty good but then about 6:00 it slows way down (I usually go home around 7:00). This tells me that a lot of dashers come on that work a regular job and this is for extra income (or the wife goes out when the husband gets home or vice versa). Weekends are almost always dead for me - - too many dashers out!

[discodirk]

When I first started with DD orders were on average 10$ for a couple of blocks and then it became 10$ for a few kilometers and then it became 4$ and then it sucked.

[Kya_the_camera_dog]

Wow your dasher app is sooo different than mine. Dasher prefrances? That doesn't exist on my app.

[iekt]

Hey Mike! I saw you were driving near squirrel hill, but have you tried venturing out a little bit? I’ve dashed in Monroeville quite a bit and it has been pretty successful which wouldn’t be far from ya at all. I know everywhere has just gotten too saturated, but it might be worth a shot. Good luck man!

[SuperScottCrawford]

Not sure if this works, but if I'm sitting for a while, I'll take a small order just to end up in a different location where there might be more offers.
Cherry picking while multi apping is what I'll do. I'll shop if I'm not getting offers from other apps.

[maxi-me]

Mike I feel you on S&P avoidance, but I've gradually given in to the hearty goodness of it.

It seems as the economy is presently tanking, many consumers are aiming at a _"bang for buck"_ lifestyle for now, and single meal deliveries just don't fit into that budget. Probably gonna be low volume and lowball offers for a

[UrbanTreasureHunter]

Friday was BAD! I was doing the same thing, cherry picking multi apping and I made $30 in 8 hrs. 🙄

[KathyWarren-ii]

Right now i have been on Uber Eats and i want to multi app but doordash and skip the dishes tell me i am on the waitlist up here in canada...any idea how long the waitlist takes? Love your content. 🇨🇦

[carlahaley]

I keep trying to figure out what your most recent video is and I don't see a subscribe button

[Ty-mhey]

Different question how’s the “ REAL TIME “ selfie going to work and when does it get implemented everywhere?

[sarahandy]

These apps or just not they used to be. Plus we got the Summer Slowdown. People are not at home ordering food. Also students and teachers now want a summertime job so they're driving and we have an influx of drivers. Not the best time to be delivery driver no matter your market. Sending love from Los Angeles 💛💜

[Jim_Delivers]

Looks like preferences is coming to Albuquerque. No email about it, but suddenly Mt app has a preference button. Right now, it just shows pizza orders, but when rewards came, it took about 2 days for everything to be online here

[Jim_Delivers]

Just noticed some (I think) new verbiage. Got a shop and deliver order and the screen stated 13 distinct items. If that's new, it's a very useful bit of info. Especially on orders with 40 items. Much more likely to say yes to a 40 item order if I know it's got 15 picks on it, rather than accepting and looking through the list and saying, oh, there's only 13 items, because they ordered 20 jalapeños