It’s 1099 time. All the delivery apps are sending out their 1099’s. But you got nothing from Uber Eats. Or maybe it was a lot smaller than you expected it to be. Why is Uber Eats not sending out 1099’s like everyone else? And why are the ones they do send out for so little? …
I’m not sure I can answer why because I’m not sure that Uber Eats IS paying less with the new update that shows the total expected pay for an offer including tips. That said, a lot of Uber Eats couriers feel like Uber Eats is paying less – a LOT less – and especially that …
Uber Eats is trying something new: Showing the total amount, including expected tip, when they offer deliveries. They rolled it out in my market. What was it like taking offers now that I know the total amount that a delivery will pay?
Uber Eats showing total amount INCLUDING tip up front? Will they? Should they? Brian from the UDM Youtube channel has commented a couple times that my market always seems to get the first look at changes that these gig delivery companies roll out. It looks like he got the scoop on this one. (Around the …
I’m starting a new series, asking what is it like to deliver for the delivery apps, starting this week with Uber Eats. Last fall, we dedicated some episodes to whether each of the four major options are good ones, including Episode 45 where we asked, “Is Uber Eats a good delivery option for independent contractors?” …
News broke last week that Uber and Postmates were negotiating a take over. This morning, Uber and Postmates announced that a deal had been reached. Uber will buy Postmates for 2.65 billion dollars worth of stock. Postmates will fall under current Uber Eats management. Bloomberg reports that Bastian Lehmann and his team will stay on …
Uber is back in the food delivery mergers and acquisitions rumor mill. This time they are negotiating a take over of Postmates. Several weeks ago, Uber and Grubhub were in talks about a possible takeover. I had the feeling that a deal would be done, but wasn’t sure that it could pass regulatory approval. It …
News broke within the past hour that Uber Eats is negotiating a take over of Grubhub. (As I write this it’s about 10 AM MST). There aren’t many details right now. I’m not sure there are any details, to be honest. Sources have confirmed to several news outlets that talks are taking place, and that …
Uber Eats has made a lot of improvements that help us with accepting and rejecting offers, but we still don’t know the total amount that we will earn. How do you know whether an order is worth taking or not? Uber Eats is different than Grubhub and Doordash. With Grubhub, you know what you will …
Is it possible to earn as much when Uber Eats is your primary source of income as it was when I was relying more heavily on Grubhub? This is the thing that I set out to discover this past week. I’ve tried it for a part of a week, but how would it go for …
If you’ve been reading along, I’ve been trying something out. How well could I do if I focused primarily on Uber Eats for a whole week, full time? I’ve tried a couple of shorter term tests but never for the whole week. Yesterday (Friday the 13th) was my fourth delivery day, having taken Tuesday off. …
I tell drivers to have a lot of options. I say not to get so invested in just one delivery platform that you are overly dependent on them and that major changes with that platform could derail you. And yet my earnings have ranged between 70 and 80 percent coming from one platform: Grubhub. Could …
Let’s just call it brain fart Wednesday. Or maybe we’ll call it brain fart slow Wednesday. I thought of calling it the Uber Eats Theory of Relativity Wednesday. For every really good day there’s an equal and opposite… you know where I’m going. Seriously though, it wasn’t THAT bad, but it sure felt it for …
This week I ditched Grubhub. I didn’t schedule any blocks with anyone else but made the decision to go all in on Uber Eats. You can read more about my decision here. I’ll share my progress as I see if I can make enough money as a full time UberEatser I’ll be honest, I kind …
I made the decision. I’m going all in. Okay, for a week anyway. A couple weeks ago I wrote about the great Grubhub free Uber Eats experiment where a few days I focused on Uber Eats. It was a sort of forced experiment because I didn’t get to the schedule in time, and it was …
