I made $80 last night, less gas costs. 10 hour shift and 200 miles. They've increased the ordering radius and that means regular trips of 10 miles or more. Orders take an hour to complete, 3x the gas, and few tips are forthcoming. Looks like this is their way of moving the tip cash we were making into their pockets.
Granted I realize people are getting fed up with Uber. They have totally run their rep into the ground and people (liberals and moderates especially) are starting to hate them. Practically all my orders now are from students and people in hotels, next to no orders from the wealthy neighborhoods anymore. I affirmed that one restaurant in particular now hardly gets any Uber Eats orders, which that may have to do with the warmer weather but this restaurant was busy in the fall too, so there must be more to it.
Last night they moved the Cincinnati boost zones to the wealthy areas, as opposed to the downtown and colleges areas. This would have been sensible except 1) they kept the boost in those areas overnight, despite the fact that all the restaurants but a couple McDonalds close there by 11PM, and 2) there were next to no requests from anywhere but McDonalds in the boost areas. Apparently they were doing a McDonalds promotion, and people were buzzing requests like mad, including to one establishment that was closed. I took 1 order in the daylight, but by sundown the drivethru was always backed up 9-10 cars. It was a mess.
By far the greatest indignity, though, was the "quest". 15 orders in 10 hours for $25 (enough to offset the gas price increase!). Previous quests in this area have been attainable, usually genuine incentives spread out over several days or a whole week. But this one seems particularly designed, in light of the radius increase, to be something not everyone who tries for it succeeds at. Most conspicuous of all, you make additional money if you make 2 more orders over the threshold. Of course this could just be a bid by Uber to weed out the delivery only people with old cars (like me) from their force, as it wouldn't hurt UberX, etc. drivers quite as bad I wouldn't think.
Granted I realize people are getting fed up with Uber. They have totally run their rep into the ground and people (liberals and moderates especially) are starting to hate them. Practically all my orders now are from students and people in hotels, next to no orders from the wealthy neighborhoods anymore. I affirmed that one restaurant in particular now hardly gets any Uber Eats orders, which that may have to do with the warmer weather but this restaurant was busy in the fall too, so there must be more to it.
Last night they moved the Cincinnati boost zones to the wealthy areas, as opposed to the downtown and colleges areas. This would have been sensible except 1) they kept the boost in those areas overnight, despite the fact that all the restaurants but a couple McDonalds close there by 11PM, and 2) there were next to no requests from anywhere but McDonalds in the boost areas. Apparently they were doing a McDonalds promotion, and people were buzzing requests like mad, including to one establishment that was closed. I took 1 order in the daylight, but by sundown the drivethru was always backed up 9-10 cars. It was a mess.
By far the greatest indignity, though, was the "quest". 15 orders in 10 hours for $25 (enough to offset the gas price increase!). Previous quests in this area have been attainable, usually genuine incentives spread out over several days or a whole week. But this one seems particularly designed, in light of the radius increase, to be something not everyone who tries for it succeeds at. Most conspicuous of all, you make additional money if you make 2 more orders over the threshold. Of course this could just be a bid by Uber to weed out the delivery only people with old cars (like me) from their force, as it wouldn't hurt UberX, etc. drivers quite as bad I wouldn't think.