Ok trying to flesh out an idea to scheme doordash for cash.  I've driven a little over 100 trips and have begun to wonder about possibly gaming the system.

So last night I signed up to drive during peak hours (+$3.00) per delivery. I then used a second phone with a unique phone number and email address created just for this test. I used that phone to sign up for the doordash food delivery service and then spoofed my gps and created a free google voice phone #.  I went to a seldomly used 711 and placed an order on the spoofed phone for 5 dr . Peppers (just to see if this would work).  I immediately was given a dash to deliver my own dr peppers to the spoofed location for 10$.  Now taking the fact that I was paid to deliver the product to myself it wound up providing me a healthy 80% discount on the product (I used the free 1 month no delivery fee option).

So I was thinking of two different avenues.  
Number 1: Could I use this for retail arbitrage on Amazon FBA? Doordash in my town has stores like big lots, sams, bed bath and beyond, etc.

Number two:  Buy individual prepaid visa cards, load with 20$.   Buy a common product like triple A batteries. Collect the 10 dollars for delivery. Then return the item on the same card (using a unique email, spoofed location, google voice phone number and prepaid card.)

Thoughts???

(October 28, 2022, 12:28 AM)bayoujeff Wrote: Ok trying to flesh out an idea to scheme doordash for cash.  I've driven a little over 100 trips and have begun to wonder about possibly gaming the system.

So last night I signed up to drive during peak hours (+$3.00) per delivery. I then used a second phone with a unique phone number and email address created just for this test. I used that phone to sign up for the doordash food delivery service and then spoofed my gps and created a free google voice phone #.  I went to a seldomly used 711 and placed an order on the spoofed phone for 5 dr . Peppers (just to see if this would work).  I immediately was given a dash to deliver my own dr peppers to the spoofed location for 10$.  Now taking the fact that I was paid to deliver the product to myself it wound up providing me a healthy 80% discount on the product (I used the free 1 month no delivery fee option).

So I was thinking of two different avenues.  
Number 1: Could I use this for retail arbitrage on Amazon FBA? Doordash in my town has stores like big lots, sams, bed bath and beyond, etc.

Number two:  Buy individual prepaid visa cards, load with 20$.   Buy a common product like triple A batteries. Collect the 10 dollars for delivery. Then return the item on the same card (using a unique email, spoofed location, google voice phone number and prepaid card.)

Thoughts???

This has been done before hell people use other peoples accounts I used to see people spoofing that their riding a bike on uber eats for example and a guy pulls up in a car. Chances are whatever you think of someone else has done it before.

No new idea under the sun, eh?

And even though it is not a unique idea... would it work/be profitable?

(October 28, 2022, 12:52 AM)bayoujeff Wrote: And even though it is not a unique idea... would it work/be profitable?

As I said people already do it so clearly it's profitable they treat their gig economy employees like shit so some smarter people just game the system and get over on doordash.

Thanks for the thoughtful reply.

Came up with new idea for potential $. Will post soon once I have all the details spelled out.