Episode 88: Evaluating Delivery Offers - #DeclineNow vs Top Dasher vs 50¢ Rule

What's the best way to evaluate delivery offers?

I'm going to tell you that the best way is what works for you. If you are happy with the results from a certain method, then stick with them.

I have issues with certain groups who will tell you their way is the only way. Some get almost militant about it. My beef isn't their philosophy, it's their tactics.

We look at a few approaches: As we do we stress the best way to evaluate is profit per hour which we talked about in Episode 8

You can read the associated blog post here: #DeclineNow vs #TopDasher vs 50 cent rule

Top Dasher / Grubhub Premier / Take Everything.

There are people that this approach can work for. There are markets where this approach may be more necessary. Program levels offer benefits in exchange for taking more offers, but you have to evaluate if the cost is worth the benefit?

Cherry Pickers / DeclineNow / Minimum Dollar Amount

It was among Grubhub drivers that the term cherry pickers came to be popular. Referring to people who reject offers until they find the one that fits. I'm a cherry picker in a loose sense of the definition as I am extremely selective.

A more recent movement has been the #DeclineNow Facebook group. Essentially their approach is to reject anything less than $7. They also stress a theory that Doordash adjusts offer amounts upwards as they are rejected by drivers - a theory put out on this site before the current pay model was fully introduced. There was an interesting article referenced in the episode about the DeclineNow group.

Dollar per mile club

Popular among Doordash drivers is the approach that says it has to pay a dollar per mile or more to take. It's a great way to weed out some bad offers but leaves too many bad offers on the table. In my opinion.

Fifty Cent Rule

A delivery has to pay 50 cents a minute to be worth taking. (Or 40 cents or whatever rule you wish to implement).

Originally introduced here as the 40 cent rule I've since given myself a raise.

The bottom line is

You do you. I emphasize the 50 cent rule because I think it works. But note the words: "I think."

If you choose a different way of deciding or choose not to decide, that's your business decision. I'm not getting emotional over your choice.

When I begin to form a negative opinion is when a philosophy becomes something that its followers insiste I (or anyone else) have to follow.

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