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I've spent many thousands of dollars on app-delivered food over the last few years (Foodpanda, Uber Eats, Grab Food, Lineman, and Deliveroo). I use the apps bec

I've spent many thousands of dollars on app-delivered food over the last few years (Foodpanda, Uber Eats, Grab Food, Lineman, and Deliveroo). I use the apps because: - GPS tracking of the driver, and helpful notifications - Discovery of new restaurants - Detailed menu (and occasionally useful suggestions of menu items) - I don't have to create a new account or fuck around with giving some restaurant my credit card - I don't have to speak to a human I'm hungry right now. I can pick up my phone, and in 30s, without needing to do anything other than click on the food I want to eat, in 25m I will have a human with food at my building's lobby.

judge2020 6y ago
> - I don't have to create a new account or fuck around with giving some restaurant my credit card In case you need to in the future, i'd recommend privacy.com for merchant-locked cards.
- thomk 6y ago
  How has your experience been with privacy.com?
  - dylz 6y ago
    Usually gets your Uber account terminated or not able to sign up in the first place with a prepaid.
    - ramraj07 6y ago
      Hopefully not a problem with small businesses?
      - dylz 6y ago
        It does become a problem depending on their POS vendor deciding to flag prepaids, I've seen several dislike this because of the ability to modify transactions afterward / tip or something of the sort, for the restaurant industry.
  - akiselev 6y ago
    Mine has been excellent apart from the daily limit and merchants that don't accept their cards like cloud providers. Takes a bit of regular activity before support will raise the limit but the fact that Privacy.com cards show up as prepaid (try it out with the Stripe api, for example) is a show stopper for some narrow use cases - which overlap almost perfectly with spammers so who can blame the merchants.
eitally 6y ago
That last bit only applies in dense downtowns. In the Bay Area, if I'm hungry right now and that happens to be roughly dinner time, I'm waiting 50-70 minutes for a food delivery.
- peteretep 6y ago
  My guess is that your app of choice can show you estimated delivery times for different restaurants based on distance and avg preparation, adding yet another reason for using
  - eitally 6y ago
    Yes. I'm just saying that the majority of restaurants in the greater bay area will have lengthy delivery times during weekday dinner hours... the exception being if you order from a place physically close to your delivery point.

judge2020 6y ago

> - I don't have to create a new account or fuck around with giving some restaurant my credit card In case you need to in the future, i'd recommend privacy.com for merchant-locked cards.

thomk 6y ago
How has your experience been with privacy.com?
- dylz 6y ago
  Usually gets your Uber account terminated or not able to sign up in the first place with a prepaid.
  - ramraj07 6y ago
    Hopefully not a problem with small businesses?
    - dylz 6y ago
      It does become a problem depending on their POS vendor deciding to flag prepaids, I've seen several dislike this because of the ability to modify transactions afterward / tip or something of the sort, for the restaurant industry.
- akiselev 6y ago
  Mine has been excellent apart from the daily limit and merchants that don't accept their cards like cloud providers. Takes a bit of regular activity before support will raise the limit but the fact that Privacy.com cards show up as prepaid (try it out with the Stripe api, for example) is a show stopper for some narrow use cases - which overlap almost perfectly with spammers so who can blame the merchants.

eitally 6y ago

That last bit only applies in dense downtowns. In the Bay Area, if I'm hungry right now and that happens to be roughly dinner time, I'm waiting 50-70 minutes for a food delivery.

peteretep 6y ago
My guess is that your app of choice can show you estimated delivery times for different restaurants based on distance and avg preparation, adding yet another reason for using
- eitally 6y ago
  Yes. I'm just saying that the majority of restaurants in the greater bay area will have lengthy delivery times during weekday dinner hours... the exception being if you order from a place physically close to your delivery point.