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I use Uber Eats for ordering food exclusively exactly because when there is a screw up and I receive the wrong item or none at all, I get refunded immediately b
by oxplot 5y ago
I use Uber Eats for ordering food exclusively exactly because when there is a screw up and I receive the wrong item or none at all, I get refunded immediately by Uber with a few taps.
- mvid 5y agoUber Eats sent my order to restaurants that were absolutely not open. After two times, and two refunds, they stopped refunding me because of a “pattern of suspicious behavior”. No way to escalate review to a human. None at all. So maybe be aware of your choice
- nxmnxm99 5y agoWhy is there no way to escalate review to a human? I've never had trouble getting through to Uber customer support and having my issue dealt with
- mvid 5y agoNot sure. They must operate differently in Spain. I had photos, timestamps, everything.
- axlee 5y agoI have probably used Uber Eats for 100+ times over the past two (pandemic) years, and I've maybe have my orders being messed up 3-5 times, each time refunded within the next ten minutes. YMMV.
- cromka 5y agoThat’s because you were refunded automatically without human intervention. This is what the author of the comment pointed out: once you do that too often in a short period of time, the bot assumes you’re scamming them and there’s no way to escalate that.
- hilbert42 5y ago"...once you do that too often in a short period of time, the bot assumes you’re scamming them and there’s no way to escalate that." The only way that'll be fixed will be with legislation. It's not only Uber, it's Google et al - they all into it. Simply, they need to be halled kicking and screaming to plow some of their enormous profits back into customer servive. Trouble is consumer protection law is decades behind where it ought to be.
- Nextgrid 5y ago> Trouble is consumer protection law is decades behind where it ought to be. Potentially, but on the other hand, card disputes are a thing and I'm baffled as to how little people know about them or have misunderstandings such as them only being available for credit cards (the law may give you extra protections there, but the standard Visa/Mastercard dispute rules apply equally regardless of whether it's debit or credit). Just like Uber and similar Silicon Valley scum gets away with this because they have a monopoly and can do as they please, so do the card networks - and the card networks are on your side in this case, so use that to your advantage.
- cromka 5y agoIf you successfully request a chargeback, they will almost certainly ban you from using their services forever. It’s usually in their T&Cs.
- hilbert42 5y ago"I'm baffled as to how little people know about them or have misunderstandings such as them only being available for credit cards..." Right, and reckon I'm no exception. One of the principal reasons why we have democratic governments is that they are there for the protection of the citizenry. The trouble is that by the time governments venture into these murky areas much damage has been done. Here, the problem is that no one has spelt out the details in advance —i.e.: what the ground rules are and the consequences if they are broken. Alas, governments are never proactive in many areas where they need to be. There's just so much going on in modern life that we can't expect citizens to keep up with everything that's going on. We need short, actuate and informative one-liners that people can check before and or during any operation that they're involved in. This ought to be the role of government.
- hilbert42 5y agoMoreover, you can't even phone Uber Eats! I had a huge delivery of Chinese food left on my doorstep (it was still quite hot). Obviously, delivered to the wrong address. The bill was fully itemized and stapled to one of the Uber bags and it came to just short of $200 but there was no correct address and no telephone number to be found on it anywhere. Anyway, I did my best to contact Uber Eats to get the delivery person to collect it but to no awail. Checked everywhere for a telephone number including searching the internet and found nothing except the number that explained how to place an order. When I rang it, it had a recording - no hunan to be found anywhere. I couldn't log in on online as I didn't have an account. And no one reappeared from Uber to reclaim it. Anyway, I gave up. There was so much food I couldn't get it all into the freezer. It lasted several weeks. Saved a lot on food bills over that time. Damn fuckwits!
- waste_monk 5y agoEven if the bag was sealed, I don't think they could take it back once it left the delivery person's custody. That's usually how these operations work (but not sure about Uber Eats specifically). Too much risk of food tampering or other mischief.
- hilbert42 5y agoVery likely. But he couldn't have gone more than a couple of minutes. I'm surprised I didn't hear him. What I'm still unclear about is that someone nearby ordered the food, as I didn't answer immediately why didn't he ring hone to base or to the planned recipient for an address correction?
- alexvoda 5y agoThis kind of situation is fixed by pin verification like there is for Uber rides and other services like some package delivery companies.
- tedmiston 5y ago> No way to escalate review to a human. None at all. > Moreover, you can't even phone Uber Eats! Uber Eats does have human phone support. https://gethuman.com/chat/UberEATS https://gethuman.com/chat/UberEATS UberEATS Phone Number: 800-253-9377
- PakG1 5y agoThey only stopped refunding you? They completely banned my account and my wife's account. We're still not sure what we did and they won't explain to us. Even escalated on Twitter and communicated by email. All we were told is that they have a zero tolerance policy for fraudulent behaviour and that the decision was final. WTH?
- imroot 5y agoI was blacklisted on Uber a few years ago when I reported a security vulnerability to them. They said no such vulnerability existed. I sent them video. They said I must have been doctoring the video because they couldn't reproduce it. They then banned me. This was in 2015. They were then sued because the vulnerability apparently identified someone's affair[0]. I sent my email exchange with Uber to the attorney who sued Uber, letting them know that they were aware of the bug two years prior. You know, because no good deed goes unpunished. I get by just fine with DoorDash and Grubhub these days, but both of those platforms have the same issues that UberEats does. --- 0: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38948281 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38948281
- southerntofu 5y agoThanks for sharing this anecdote. > I get by just fine with DoorDash and Grubhub these days, but both of those platforms have the same issues that UberEats does. To get back to the original point, don't you think you would be better off saving as phone contacts the few restaurants you buy from, or maybe writing down the numbers on the fridge if you live with other people?
- Nextgrid 5y agoI was banned from Deliveroo because I guess I should just be happy to absorb the cost for ~20% of orders which arrived wrong instead of calling them out and asking them to do their job properly.
- elygre 5y agoUsing Wolt, there is a separate step where “a human at (restaurant) has seen your order”. Presumably that resolves this problem.
- ssharp 5y agoI’ve had food sitting at restaurants for over an hour before while Uber attempts to find a driver. After a particularly frustrating instance where Uber told me to cancel but didn’t refund me for me, I did manage to find a support inbox that’s read by an escalation team and I had a real life human calling from SF let me know that they would refund me. The effort it took to get the refund was ridiculous though as every contact option Uber presented me resulted in robo responses telling me since I initiated the cancel that I’d be responsible for food costs, even when I included chat screenshots of their agents telling me to cancel.
- pwdisswordfish9 5y ago> I’ve had food sitting at restaurants for over an hour before while Uber attempts to find a driver. If you're in a metro area ordering during ordinary hours and having this happen, it's almost certainly because the restaurant has developed a bad reputation and people refuse to work with them. The thing about Uber's intermediation is that if you had this sort of experience by ordering directly through the restaurant, you'd rightly associate the experience with the restaurant's failures, but with Uber, it feels like Uber failing. > a particularly frustrating instance where Uber told me to cancel but didn’t refund me for me UberEATS drivers are like Fedex or USPS for food. They have no special powers here. Expecting one to refund "for" you is like having a mail person show up at your door and then berating them for the screwup of whatever business sent you the wrong thing, etc.
- ShroudedNight 5y ago> UberEATS drivers are like Fedex or USPS for food. This is to be expected, but it's not clear how this is relevant to your parent given it appears to have been Uber customer-service agents directing them to cancel, not a driver.
- Nextgrid 5y ago> the restaurant has developed a bad reputation and people refuse to work with them Do you mean delivery drivers refuse to pick up from there? How is that a customer's problem? That's a potential breach of contract between Uber and the delivery drivers. Uber Eats positions itself as an end-to-end managed service where you pay money to receive delivered food, and charges hefty fees (on both sides of the transaction) for doing so. It's up to them to make sure this works by implementing appropriate penalties for drivers or restaurants who default. However in typical Silicon Valley fashion their business model is to screw everyone so I'm sure the restaurants and delivery drivers have equally little recourse when things go wrong or to provide feedback so bad/misbehaving actors are allowed to remain as long as it's not causing a problem for Uber. > UberEATS drivers are like Fedex or USPS for food Not really. FedEx/USPS doesn't manage the customer relationship, doesn't broker the transaction nor takes a fee off the transaction amount itself.
- Nextgrid 5y agoI got banned from Deliveroo for a similar reason. I was a heavy user (several times a day every day) and mistakes are bound to happen - I'd estimate that maybe 20% of my orders ended up having something wrong. I guess they just assumed that 20% is an acceptable cost that the users should bear despite all the fees they add (to both the user-facing price and the fees they charge to restaurants)? Uber Eats wasn't much better and tried to still make me pay for delivery fees even when the only item in the order was wrong/damaged, but a chargeback quickly took care of that.
- cammikebrown 5y agoWe are just getting lazier and lazier. Any restaurant that isn’t terrible would reimburse you as well.
- roobs 5y agoUntil they start doing this to you :) https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/rj0a19/made_sure_i_wasnt_ordering_near_closing_time_now/ https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/rj0a19/made_...
- Nextgrid 5y agoThis is an open & shut case for a card dispute. I'm surprised there is any country in the world where taking money without delivery the promised goods is legal, but I guess the US legal system doesn't care.
- cookie_monsta 5y agoPlus you get to share your food with the driver[1] which is nice. [1] https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-eats-delivery-drivers-eating-food-2019-7 https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-eats-delivery-drivers-e...
- Macha 5y agoRestaurant driver is not a highly paid or long term job, so I wouldn't expect the incidence of this is actually any lower amongst restaurant employed delivery drivers.
- cookie_monsta 5y agoLike you say, it is a job, though, and not gig work. I don't know what it's like now or everywhere but I did delivery work in the pre-app era. I got an hourly wage, cash tips and one staff meal per shift. That's what often happens when you get employed by humans who have to look you in the face. They treat you like a human. It would never have occurred to me to take bites out of customers food but if you see just how little these app drivers earn and consider how little loyalty they feel to any one restaurant or platform, it's kind of understandable.
- prepend 5y agoUber has been helpful a few times when restaurants wouldn’t. I had the worst sushi order of my life. Order was missing items, fish was stinky, just gross. I called the restaurant and they offered 10% off my next order. They wouldn’t even replace the missing orders or gross items. It was so weird as this was about a $150 sushi order and the restaurant was fairly nice. Uber refunded the meal immediately after seeing a picture.
- forbiddenvoid 5y agoUnfortunately, I experience way more of these types of issues exactly because I use Uber Eats. When my kid doesn't get the meal we ordered for them, they don't really care that Uber Eats was quick to refund the order. They're still hungry.
- Nextgrid 5y agoNone of these shitty services seem to understand the inconvenience of not getting the order on time or getting the wrong order. I don't particularly care about the cost being refunded, I've wasted 2 hours waiting for food that didn't arrive.
- paranoidrobot 5y agoTo add more anecdata to the pile... I've been using UberEats for years. It meant a much larger range of restaurants became available to me - I don't drive, and these restaurants would otherwise not get my business. Uber Eats has often been very good about giving me refunds for restaurant screwups. However they sent me an email after a string of restaurants fucking up orders - missing whole meals, or significant parts thereof. At the time, they didn't ask for any kind of supporting evidence, just click through the app and it would instantly refund you. Then they sent me an email saying that they've detected an "unusual" number of problems, and that they'd like to remind me that fraud is illegal and they may take further action if they detect it. No way to appeal, no way to say "Hey, if you're going to subtly accuse me of being a fraud, at least let me have an opportunity to provide some information". Uber Eats now (sometimes) asks for some evidence, and it apparently goes off to some human for review (or they just stick a ~30-90 minute delay timer on the processing queue to make it look like a human reviewed it). Now, most restaurants around me no longer have their own delivery options, and direct you to Uber Eats or a whitelabelled service that just submits the order through Uber Eats or Menulog anyway. There's a number of fake restaurants now listed on Uber Eats around me, even some chains of fake restaurants. One of these fake-chains is operating out of low-quality hotel kitchens and is clearly heating up commercial cook-chill/frozen meals. Another is operating out of a residential apartment building from someone's home (not a commercial kitchen). Good luck trying to report these to Uber. They don't give a shit. While I'm dumping these on Uber, they're unfortunately not the worst. Menulog are IMO worse - they have all the same problems as Uber in terms of fake listings, but also work with restaurants that keep getting bad reviews to wipe out the bad reviews and re-list them as New. All the business has to do is say they've been sold to new owners, delete the old listing and re-add and hey presto, those 500 1-star reviews saying you've got a shit product are turned into 30 5-star reviews about this amazing "new" restaurant, rinse and repeat every few months when business drops off.