I’m one of those people who is very picky about the orders I accept with gas prices the way they are and DoorDash offering a lot of $3 base pay rates for apartments. I’ve had two orders in the last week show up as under $10 (but not less than 5 or I wouldn’t have accepted them) that I’ve thought were going to be worth my time, and finding out right after the order has completed that the tips were HUGE and at least tripled my base pay. I’m talking a $50 tip on a normal Burger King order with no tip baiting, it actually paid out, and a red lobster order that tripled the pay DoorDash had quoted me.

Has it just become normal practice for DoorDash to misquote tips until after an order is delivered if it’s a custom amount like that? It makes me wonder how many people are tipping extra for faster service and ending up with dashers that think they’re only getting paid $5 to care about a big order.