05/02/2026
Only cherry pickers have experienced this
Only cherry pickers understand how the algorithm works because people who worry about AR aren't training the algorithm, they're letting the algorithm train them.
I found this out by accident. I was getting the normal $6-10 orders for most of the night. I decided I was done for the day and decided to go home, but instead of logging out, I decided to just turn down orders on the way home.
After I started rejecting the $6-10 orders, I started getting $10-15 orders. Normally I would have done these in a heartbeat but I was truly done for the night so I kept rejecting.
By the time I got near my house, they were $30 orders, for 30 minutes worth of work. I decided to take it because it was $60 an hour.
It was so busy that night that every order after that averaged $60 an hour and they kept sending them back to back to keep me on the road.
Ended up averaging $40 an hour only because of the cheapy orders I was taking at first.
This only happens when it's really busy and orders are coming in back to back. When it's slow they don't need to raise pay, but when it's really busy they'll pay you more to get orders delivered.
Only cherry pickers have experienced this, as they're the only ones who really turn down orders like that. People worried about AR will never experience this side of the apps.
I understand this is Uber Eats and not Door Dash, but DD works the exact same way when it's really busy and there's more orders than drivers.
The reason DD'ers don't see this working often is because there's more people just accepting the bad orders, so they've never experienced DD raising the pay to get orders delivered. If there's plenty of drivers taking bad orders, there's no need to raise the pay.
But if you live in a town where there are way more orders than drivers, you will experience this same thing on DD too.