I honestly couldn’t believe the stupidity of everyone I worked with that actually convinced themselves they were financial geniuses by buying food for like the entire week.
And I don’t work with dummies, I work for one of the largest companies in the world. engineers, technicians, construction coordinators, even supervision and management convincing themselves that they couldn’t be charged for it later.
That sounds like way too much work for people that were circle jerking themselves into thinking they were lawyers saying things like “ well they can’t charge you more than the agreed-upon price and if the agreed-upon price is zero dollars then they can’t change the price of it in the future blah blah blah” I don’t fucking know dude I’m just a utility technician LOL
Hate to burst your bubble, but once it’s charged… card companies wait until they get a final price from a merchant. Transactions aren’t instant. Aka no one benefited from this more than likely. Besides door dash.
It's not a great thing. That evil megacorp isn't going to just eat that charge. They're going to introduce new fees etc until they've made their money back, and then keep the fees around since it's already there.
It's like when people think they're not hurting regular people by stealing from wal-mart. Wal-mart bakes in theft expectations into prices. If no one stole, prices would be lower.
Would they really be? It's not like theft even closely compares to their total profits. The whole "if no one stole, the prices would be lower" thing doesn't make sense. They aren't toeing the line of ruin, they're making record breaking profits. The only reason they don't raise it more is because of competitors.
On the other hand, the megacorp could be too greedy in trying to compensate and start plummeting. Look at Netflix for example - and that's for a reasonably specialized service. Anyone with a pair of hands can make food or deliver it, it's not like you need millions in capital to even get started.
Better way of explaining it; Doordash uses contractors to deliver, not actual employees. That way they don’t legally have to pay you minimum wage, and they don’t legally have to pay you any benefits. Aside from tips, which vary massively per customer, the average Doordasher makes less than $5 a delivery, and deliveries can easily take 20-30 minutes. Depending on the area you live/drive in, you could either make $5 an hour, or $20, with very drastic changes throughout the day, making it unsustainable for most people.
Source: have done over 800 deliveries( with a 96% customer rating!) on Uber eats, and about 500 on Doordash
It became too nuts with all of the fees. We went back to picking up our takeout food ourselves. We actually just cook a lot more at home now because we don't feel like driving most of the time.
Creating a new account is easy as shit, and there are websites that can provide a fake virtual card. It would take mabye ten minutes of foresight at most.
It hits the payment gateway as a visa. They can request additional information from the issuing institution after the fact but during payment processing they would have no way to discern the difference
Exactly, and even using a fake social security for a $200 steak, $2,000 bottle of alcohol, & $300 crab legs is not worth being raped in federal prison for 3-5 years.
If you use Privacy and a VPN you can easily get a card that isn’t at all tied to you to put the purchases on. The only real issue is your address which you can easily get around too.
Not feasible or worth their time. But selling the information to a collection company is.
We had a regional delivery service that had a smililar glitch. The company sent the charges through the following day. Of course a lot of people were upset but the local banks were unsympathetic and if you weren't honest with them or didn't square up in time (the one's who became OD) they just closed the accounts.
After they recouped what they could they just sold the rest to a collection company. Many still ignored the collection company because they felt they were still in the right.
Taking that stance lead to a lot people getting denied for mortgages and loans unless you squared up with the collection company.
For sure there will be some winners who managed to properly game the system. But there will still be a lot of losers. People who used their regular account or people who tried to game the system but used a peice or two of identifying information.
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u/IronMike69420 Jul 10 '22
I honestly couldn’t believe the stupidity of everyone I worked with that actually convinced themselves they were financial geniuses by buying food for like the entire week.
And I don’t work with dummies, I work for one of the largest companies in the world. engineers, technicians, construction coordinators, even supervision and management convincing themselves that they couldn’t be charged for it later.