Even if they add perks for high acceptance rate like Doordash, or make it more a factor in the algorithm that assigns orders to drivers, taking undesirable orders just to boost acceptance rate is a loser's game. Payout, mileage, and time is all that matters to me. If an order cannot positively fulfill at least two of those criteria it's getting rejected. I refuse to burn gas and waste time on garbage orders. I only accept what makes financial sense to me.
In my area we’ve had the my system app for 2 months at least, there is no more first come first serves, you get one chance to take it and that’s it, they offer left overs to Uber eats. I would hope acceptance rate isn’t a thing, some of us can’t lift heavy items and this is a job and not a charity for Walmart, the money and miles need to make sense. Maybe they should revise the “free” delivery to your door and add more info to the customers about who and how it gets there and that we are not Walmart employees
What I do like about the new update is we can reject the Walmart substitute and pick are own that makes better sense. And you still can see what’s on each order by hitting the right arrow and hitting the items to see what it is in their order but not the batch orders
Or, perhaps, you could just look at the number of items (bags), which in your particular case is 35, and the number of items within this 35(!)-bag order?! Do you think THAT could have clued you in as to the SIZE of the order???
I just can't see how they could get away with it. I'll be sitting over 10 to 15 miles from a store and get timed offers . No way that holds up. But I believe walmart runs certain people better runs? Is each store dispatch from that store or at a central location. If it's local could be there buddies and families that always get best high paying runs. If it's central run could be a group working with stores and dispatch to get all the runs? It's something for sure. I have from a spark agent on email that spark dispatch is a random generator like the lotto#
@RetireEatsDelivers I would really like to know how it's done! I believe people work with certain drivers and route better tip runs to them! I was told in a email by spark that it's a random generator like the lotto! I and we all know better than that!
And then us that play fair and by the rules also have to deal with the fact that so many people could have figured out the more phones you have the more money you make! So hence on rainy days that person running 3 4 5 6 phones what ever is being slowed down because of wet roads creating more runs for the honest players
I also came from Doirdash...5 or 6 drops is a small batched "GM" otder. I've been seeing them between 13 and 20+ drops for as much as $70...but it will take a solid 3 hrs to complete the bigger ones. Last night I finished a 2 drop order for $37, right after a 3 drop, 4 mile order for $28. No need to do those giant ones.
Spark acceptance rate is bogus because they spam you the same offer 4 times, then add one dollar, and spam you with it 4 more times. That's 8 declines for the same offer. Nobody but an AI bot would consider that fair.
Even if they add perks for high acceptance rate like Doordash, or make it more a factor in the algorithm that assigns orders to drivers, taking undesirable orders just to boost acceptance rate is a loser's game. Payout, mileage, and time is all that matters to me. If an order cannot positively fulfill at least two of those criteria it's getting rejected. I refuse to burn gas and waste time on garbage orders. I only accept what makes financial sense to me.
Nailed it.
Everyone needs to come together and decline it all. What are they gonna do , stop sending orders? Wake up people
In my area we’ve had the my system app for 2 months at least, there is no more first come first serves, you get one chance to take it and that’s it, they offer left overs to Uber eats. I would hope acceptance rate isn’t a thing, some of us can’t lift heavy items and this is a job and not a charity for Walmart, the money and miles need to make sense. Maybe they should revise the “free” delivery to your door and add more info to the customers about who and how it gets there and that we are not Walmart employees
What I do like about the new update is we can reject the Walmart substitute and pick are own that makes better sense. And you still can see what’s on each order by hitting the right arrow and hitting the items to see what it is in their order but not the batch orders
If spark removes the item list from the offer screens drivers will be rejecting offers like crazy.
Or, perhaps, you could just look at the number of items (bags), which in your particular case is 35, and the number of items within this 35(!)-bag order?!
Do you think THAT could have clued you in as to the SIZE of the order???
I'm not a fan of the new ui as it glitches and it's annoying. The refresh button is near the accept button so be careful
Totally agree
I just got onto spark this week, I accepted 21 orders but 7 were canceled. Is this normal? Am I in a market that has a lot of scammers?
I just can't see how they could get away with it. I'll be sitting over 10 to 15 miles from a store and get timed offers . No way that holds up. But I believe walmart runs certain people better runs? Is each store dispatch from that store or at a central location. If it's local could be there buddies and families that always get best high paying runs. If it's central run could be a group working with stores and dispatch to get all the runs? It's something for sure. I have from a spark agent on email that spark dispatch is a random generator like the lotto#
To your point on dispatching orders, I wonder if that's a zone by zone affair.
@RetireEatsDelivers I would really like to know how it's done! I believe people work with certain drivers and route better tip runs to them! I was told in a email by spark that it's a random generator like the lotto! I and we all know better than that!
And then us that play fair and by the rules also have to deal with the fact that so many people could have figured out the more phones you have the more money you make! So hence on rainy days that person running 3 4 5 6 phones what ever is being slowed down because of wet roads creating more runs for the honest players
five or six drops for how much? Coming from doordash this doesn’t look very profitable. Somebody smart explain please 😂
I also came from Doirdash...5 or 6 drops is a small batched "GM" otder. I've been seeing them between 13 and 20+ drops for as much as $70...but it will take a solid 3 hrs to complete the bigger ones. Last night I finished a 2 drop order for $37, right after a 3 drop, 4 mile order for $28. No need to do those giant ones.
Spark acceptance rate is bogus because they spam you the same offer 4 times, then add one dollar, and spam you with it 4 more times. That's 8 declines for the same offer. Nobody but an AI bot would consider that fair.
acceptance rate only calculates round robin orders
True. But only the declines on the "just for you orders" count against your acceptance rate, allegedly.