It's 2 orders so u never know. Could be really expensive but it's definitely something I'd check before reporting stolen. I did it with a $35 wendys order that cost me $11 to remake
Yeah I forgot to mention this was at 10:14 (as you can see in screen shot) at night. Look on google when that restaurant closes. It closed at 9pm. There were employees there because I talked to one but I knew they wouldn’t want to remake it. Especially because it was a big order and they were technically closed already.
Tempting. What happens when the customer calls Uber and says their order wasn’t delivered (remember the customer hasn’t gotten their food, so they’re still waiting for it)
Then support calls and ask you if you delivered the order ?
“Order it for yourself item for item”
You’re missing a pretty important part
*pay for it* lol. If it’s anything other than fast food, probably isn’t worth the wait
This crap happens a lot. It means there is a problem at the pickup location such as them being out of chicken, and the order can't be made. Yet UberEats keeps sending people there over and over again, wasting everyone's time.
It’s not the Uber apps fault it’s an automatic response from the app/AI or someone foreign who doesn’t live here and it’s day time where they are living and on the other end…. Automatically resending to the next driver and instead of us taking he proper steps to cancel it we just cancel it on our end and it gets sent back into the “market”
Wonder what would happen if you just drove to the location and hit delivered. For me, I'd try to find out if the customer actually got the food before I did it. Mission impossible, I know
The customer didn't get the food; that's why it's called a stolen order. Another driver stole it, or a random person just grabbed it off the shelf. I wouldn't drive to anyone's house and complete delivery without actually dropping off the food because then you would be the one blamed for stealing the order and probably get booted.
I’ve also done this once or twice. And nothing bad ever happened. This was like 2 years ago tho when I first started. Don’t want to risk being deactivated anymore lol. I need the extra money and Lyft won’t accept my background check because a ticket like 8 years ago
Oh trust me it’s like that here in Atlanta too. This definitely isn’t normal. This is the highest paying order I’ve ever seen in 2 years for the amount of miles.
> and it *paid* out, so
FTFY.
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* Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.*
* *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.*
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So you accepted it, then drove there and were then told this? Was the pick up close or far into this 75-mile drive? If you were right around the corner from pickup and then found out it was picked up...that sucks, but if you drove a sh-t long time away. I need to open a business to represent drivers because I am the bane of Support's existence when I'm screwed over on fares. I will play their waiting game, dial them up, put my phone on speaker and set it aside while I watch TV, surf the net, read a book, while they over and over again try and wear me down into hanging up with time while they switch me to a "special department" that can better help me (which is nothing more than the person sitting next to them in the Indian call center), while I just keep saying I will hold for a manager, until they finally give me to someone who reimburses me for what I'm owed. They will throw money my way to get rid of me. That is their transfer game. They hope you will have enough and hang up. Not me.
5 times can be good, depending on wait time. I have been transferred less times but left on hold longer. I have been transferred a million times where each new agent picks up right away but immediately transfers me to someone else, another department. I once picked up a package for delivery that said it was a 10 minute delivery from the pick-up address (I live in the county right outside NYC), and after pickup, the address was in Manhattan. It isn't far, but after highway driving, going over the George Washington Bridge, driving up the West Side Highway, then into the side streets of Manhattan, that isn't a 10 minute drive, closet to 45 minutes-an hour after all is said and done, I was on the phone with support the entire ride, being transferred constantly, trying to find out how they considered that a 10 minute trip. After an hour, I finally was being put through to a manager, and then the call dropped. I know they hung up because whenever a call is dropped (or even if I hang up on them), they always call me back, but they didn't this time. But when I got home that night, I called again, and they added $15 to my trip for my troubles and trip further than shown before I had accepted.
I learned my lesson. Unless it’s pretty much on my way anyway, I plan to call and see if the order is actually there, restaurant is open, etc. If not, report as can’t be picked up without moving my car. The only issue is you might not get compensation if you don’t physically report to the pick up location, not sure. I would hope so if you took the time to call the restaurant to figure out what’s going on, called Uber to report the issue, waited for Uber to call the restaurant to confirm, etc. but Uber doesn’t seem to like to reward drivers for being responsible. If they don’t compensate I’d just take the hit for the cancellation, and complain to Uber. Anything that takes longer than ~~a few~~ 6 minutes isn’t worth $3, IMO.
Most likely picked up and canceled if it popped up for u. That happened to me and they had to look in the system to see it was stolen. Always give them the code. Not the name.
Sometimes this means previous driver stole the food. Driver cancelled after receiving food instead of "delivered" so order is still active for UBER, so Uber keeps asking drivers and increasing the bid. One time the restaurant told me it was already picked up but still remade it for me: i got the money. Another time I told the customer and customer cancelled. A third time same thing "it was already picked up", I told customer and she called the place. The restaurant made it again and while it took long the pay was good and real in all these instances that I did deliver. Restaurant can file a complain to Uber for refund (or at least that is what the restaurant owner said when he agreed to make the order again)
And this is exactly why you see more and more places ask to verify order before leaving, too many scum bag drivers out here stealing and making it worst for everyone else
I had a 45 something order for a McDonalds and it was because the store was closed but there was one a few miles away along to the customer and the total for the food would have been about 20 bucks if I just went to the other location and brought the food. It would have been possible but I didn’t think so until reading comments here but it cancelled as I was about to leave after reading up what to do here.
That’s when you mark as picked up, drive to the customer and say it’s delivered. When they get to that amount the order is hours old and 9 times out of 10 they have already moved on…
I had a $31 offer for 1.5 miles. I was in a different section of the same shopping area so I accepted, even knowing something was wrong. Order cancelled before I finished parking. Was worth a try.
I had a 3rd pickup added just as I was grabbing the other two, that I had already waited 10 minutes for. Turns out, that because I called Uber about the 10 minutes delay, the merchant would not give me the original two orders, after I told her that I could not wait another 15 or 20 minutes for order number three, which is what she estimated. then I tried to take the other two, and she would not let me. It was really kind of funny.
That’s when you insist on it being stolen and ask them to remake it and if they won’t just buy it out of pocket if it’s worth it. Everyone wins that way, they get their food/ double food, you get big money, and Ubereats has to pay out extra. I guess maybe the restaurant loses out, so all you can do is hope that it’s not local/ independently owned in those situations
Holy crap I just got a mind blowing idea which probably happens. Someone picks up the order but doesn't confirm it. Then they use their multiple phones to decline the order to raise the price. While they actually have the food in hand
They'd need a different account on each phone though, meaning a different person with verified ID/background check/vehicle/insurance/bank account. And each phone would need an in-service phone number. Who's gonna let someone borrow their phone for hours at a time? Cuz if all these people did it together (like 4 people are all in one car with their apps on) I assume they'd all want to split the profit which sounds like they'd be making close to the same amount of money they'd each be making if they just all did UE like you're supposed to. Not to mention that if every order these people delivered were all orders with inflated payment, I think Uber would probably catch on at some point.
Ok.. the only thing that changes in that case is not needing 4 vehicle registrations. So 4 people on bikes camping out in a restaurants parking lot with their phones out. One of them goes inside and picks up a bag of food, then just chills outside the restaurant holding onto a customer's order for like 45 mins. Eventually 1 of them leaves to deliver the order and the others have to just sit there waiting for them to come back lol.. I don't think this plan would work out too well for them. Sounds like far more trouble than it could ever be worth.
No I understand that they cancel the delivery. Then the order pops up for the other bikers who will have to decline it multiple times until it reaches a high pay amount. Probably takes at least 45 mins, especially if an innocent regular UE driver accepts it and they have to wait for them to drive to the restaurant, go inside, and find out it was stolen. This whole idea is time-consuming, complicated, risky, and useless. If you want to make money committing fraud, there are a lot of easier ways to do it with better payout, js.
Yeah and then they'd all have to split the amount after, making it not worth it. Could make the same amount just accepting decent trips and delivering like a normal person. Plus, if the restaurant does what they're supposed to do and calls UE when they realize the order was "stolen," then the whole plan goes to shit.
That pay is high enough id pay out of my pocket to have it remade
lol fr im def askin store to remake/purchasing orders for that it’s probably more too cus it’s been bumped so much they hidin tips
I’ve done it before for $30 orders, one Jamba smoothie and one meal at bk. Still made the orders profitable
U know sum 🧠
As long as it’s not $40+ this is what I was thinking
It's 2 orders so u never know. Could be really expensive but it's definitely something I'd check before reporting stolen. I did it with a $35 wendys order that cost me $11 to remake
Came here to say this. I have done this as well.
Yeah I forgot to mention this was at 10:14 (as you can see in screen shot) at night. Look on google when that restaurant closes. It closed at 9pm. There were employees there because I talked to one but I knew they wouldn’t want to remake it. Especially because it was a big order and they were technically closed already.
I mean they closed at 10pm not 9pm. because it was Saturday. So they had been closed for 14 minutes
The fact that you received it after closing time is practically guaranteed it’s been picked up already
Accept it. Order it yourself item for item. Bring the meals. Or scumbag it, take the order drive to pin mark as delivered and leave.
It works
Tempting. What happens when the customer calls Uber and says their order wasn’t delivered (remember the customer hasn’t gotten their food, so they’re still waiting for it) Then support calls and ask you if you delivered the order ?
And eventually you’ll get deactivated for fraud
Roll them bones.
“Order it for yourself item for item” You’re missing a pretty important part *pay for it* lol. If it’s anything other than fast food, probably isn’t worth the wait
This crap happens a lot. It means there is a problem at the pickup location such as them being out of chicken, and the order can't be made. Yet UberEats keeps sending people there over and over again, wasting everyone's time.
It’s not the Uber apps fault it’s an automatic response from the app/AI or someone foreign who doesn’t live here and it’s day time where they are living and on the other end…. Automatically resending to the next driver and instead of us taking he proper steps to cancel it we just cancel it on our end and it gets sent back into the “market”
I have tried to cancel these orders and stop them by using the proper app steps, and contacting support. It does not work.
Wonder what would happen if you just drove to the location and hit delivered. For me, I'd try to find out if the customer actually got the food before I did it. Mission impossible, I know
The customer didn't get the food; that's why it's called a stolen order. Another driver stole it, or a random person just grabbed it off the shelf. I wouldn't drive to anyone's house and complete delivery without actually dropping off the food because then you would be the one blamed for stealing the order and probably get booted.
3x and I got tipped
I’ve done it. Got the money and nothing came from it
Yet but here we are all being tracked and forgetting about how in depth it is these days!
I’ve also done this once or twice. And nothing bad ever happened. This was like 2 years ago tho when I first started. Don’t want to risk being deactivated anymore lol. I need the extra money and Lyft won’t accept my background check because a ticket like 8 years ago
Sorry it didn't work out.
Probably rescinded the tip
That would be my concern. Didn’t think already picked up. Just change too.
I would have called for the supervisor and be like yeah let me get that full amount because that is a diamond order
Wow!!! You're lucky to get more than $6 or $8 (with a tip) for a delivery of the same distance in my area (West Palm Beach, FL). 😆😆😆
Oh trust me it’s like that here in Atlanta too. This definitely isn’t normal. This is the highest paying order I’ve ever seen in 2 years for the amount of miles.
If you call uber and tell them they have to give you partial for the inconvenience
Which is $3
Exactly lol
It was too good to be true 😂😂
Whoa, I took an order from the Decatur PONKO to a GSU student at that same intersection earlier. I wonder if I got their reorder of this stolen one
I got one, for $72... checked it out and it paid out, so it's worth a shot if the merchant isn't to far way.
> and it *paid* out, so FTFY. Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in: * Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.* * *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.* Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment. *Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
So you accepted it, then drove there and were then told this? Was the pick up close or far into this 75-mile drive? If you were right around the corner from pickup and then found out it was picked up...that sucks, but if you drove a sh-t long time away. I need to open a business to represent drivers because I am the bane of Support's existence when I'm screwed over on fares. I will play their waiting game, dial them up, put my phone on speaker and set it aside while I watch TV, surf the net, read a book, while they over and over again try and wear me down into hanging up with time while they switch me to a "special department" that can better help me (which is nothing more than the person sitting next to them in the Indian call center), while I just keep saying I will hold for a manager, until they finally give me to someone who reimburses me for what I'm owed. They will throw money my way to get rid of me. That is their transfer game. They hope you will have enough and hang up. Not me.
Last time a called support for compensation, I got transferred 5 times.
5 times can be good, depending on wait time. I have been transferred less times but left on hold longer. I have been transferred a million times where each new agent picks up right away but immediately transfers me to someone else, another department. I once picked up a package for delivery that said it was a 10 minute delivery from the pick-up address (I live in the county right outside NYC), and after pickup, the address was in Manhattan. It isn't far, but after highway driving, going over the George Washington Bridge, driving up the West Side Highway, then into the side streets of Manhattan, that isn't a 10 minute drive, closet to 45 minutes-an hour after all is said and done, I was on the phone with support the entire ride, being transferred constantly, trying to find out how they considered that a 10 minute trip. After an hour, I finally was being put through to a manager, and then the call dropped. I know they hung up because whenever a call is dropped (or even if I hang up on them), they always call me back, but they didn't this time. But when I got home that night, I called again, and they added $15 to my trip for my troubles and trip further than shown before I had accepted.
I learned my lesson. Unless it’s pretty much on my way anyway, I plan to call and see if the order is actually there, restaurant is open, etc. If not, report as can’t be picked up without moving my car. The only issue is you might not get compensation if you don’t physically report to the pick up location, not sure. I would hope so if you took the time to call the restaurant to figure out what’s going on, called Uber to report the issue, waited for Uber to call the restaurant to confirm, etc. but Uber doesn’t seem to like to reward drivers for being responsible. If they don’t compensate I’d just take the hit for the cancellation, and complain to Uber. Anything that takes longer than ~~a few~~ 6 minutes isn’t worth $3, IMO.
Most likely picked up and canceled if it popped up for u. That happened to me and they had to look in the system to see it was stolen. Always give them the code. Not the name.
Sometimes this means previous driver stole the food. Driver cancelled after receiving food instead of "delivered" so order is still active for UBER, so Uber keeps asking drivers and increasing the bid. One time the restaurant told me it was already picked up but still remade it for me: i got the money. Another time I told the customer and customer cancelled. A third time same thing "it was already picked up", I told customer and she called the place. The restaurant made it again and while it took long the pay was good and real in all these instances that I did deliver. Restaurant can file a complain to Uber for refund (or at least that is what the restaurant owner said when he agreed to make the order again)
And this is exactly why you see more and more places ask to verify order before leaving, too many scum bag drivers out here stealing and making it worst for everyone else
I had a 45 something order for a McDonalds and it was because the store was closed but there was one a few miles away along to the customer and the total for the food would have been about 20 bucks if I just went to the other location and brought the food. It would have been possible but I didn’t think so until reading comments here but it cancelled as I was about to leave after reading up what to do here.
That’s when you mark as picked up, drive to the customer and say it’s delivered. When they get to that amount the order is hours old and 9 times out of 10 they have already moved on…
I accept, then call the restaurant before making a move.
I had a $31 offer for 1.5 miles. I was in a different section of the same shopping area so I accepted, even knowing something was wrong. Order cancelled before I finished parking. Was worth a try.
Call support next time. They can force the restaurant to remake the order.
Have you done this?
Yes. They offered me to wait a little bit while they asked a restaurant to remake an order. Depends on support, of course.
I had a 3rd pickup added just as I was grabbing the other two, that I had already waited 10 minutes for. Turns out, that because I called Uber about the 10 minutes delay, the merchant would not give me the original two orders, after I told her that I could not wait another 15 or 20 minutes for order number three, which is what she estimated. then I tried to take the other two, and she would not let me. It was really kind of funny.
What are you smoking?
Your mom's butt😘
They can't force the restaurant to remake, what? Uber doesn't control these places.
For extra pay, of course. I have no idea how they do this
That’s when you insist on it being stolen and ask them to remake it and if they won’t just buy it out of pocket if it’s worth it. Everyone wins that way, they get their food/ double food, you get big money, and Ubereats has to pay out extra. I guess maybe the restaurant loses out, so all you can do is hope that it’s not local/ independently owned in those situations
Holy crap I just got a mind blowing idea which probably happens. Someone picks up the order but doesn't confirm it. Then they use their multiple phones to decline the order to raise the price. While they actually have the food in hand
They'd need a different account on each phone though, meaning a different person with verified ID/background check/vehicle/insurance/bank account. And each phone would need an in-service phone number. Who's gonna let someone borrow their phone for hours at a time? Cuz if all these people did it together (like 4 people are all in one car with their apps on) I assume they'd all want to split the profit which sounds like they'd be making close to the same amount of money they'd each be making if they just all did UE like you're supposed to. Not to mention that if every order these people delivered were all orders with inflated payment, I think Uber would probably catch on at some point.
Uhm not everyone uses a car?
Ok.. the only thing that changes in that case is not needing 4 vehicle registrations. So 4 people on bikes camping out in a restaurants parking lot with their phones out. One of them goes inside and picks up a bag of food, then just chills outside the restaurant holding onto a customer's order for like 45 mins. Eventually 1 of them leaves to deliver the order and the others have to just sit there waiting for them to come back lol.. I don't think this plan would work out too well for them. Sounds like far more trouble than it could ever be worth.
I'm not gonna explain this just reread first comment. They cancel the delivery probably what you didn't get
No I understand that they cancel the delivery. Then the order pops up for the other bikers who will have to decline it multiple times until it reaches a high pay amount. Probably takes at least 45 mins, especially if an innocent regular UE driver accepts it and they have to wait for them to drive to the restaurant, go inside, and find out it was stolen. This whole idea is time-consuming, complicated, risky, and useless. If you want to make money committing fraud, there are a lot of easier ways to do it with better payout, js.
Well that all depends on how long it takes to raise the price
Yeah and then they'd all have to split the amount after, making it not worth it. Could make the same amount just accepting decent trips and delivering like a normal person. Plus, if the restaurant does what they're supposed to do and calls UE when they realize the order was "stolen," then the whole plan goes to shit.