The allegation that driver payouts are manipulated to:

1) Hook new drivers with better than average rates before tapering off 2) Take into account the age/model/value of the vehicle and what payments for it would look like in the market and dole out enough to cover costs but not "too much" that they're getting ahead of other drivers

Totally baseless and sourceless hearsay tho. Still, if true, really plays into the image of "there's no depth they won't go".

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underlipton 20 hours ago | parent [-]

Add another: the various platforms talk to each other (or analyze driver movement) in order to manipulate order offerings in such a way as to discourage drivers from taking orders from more than one app at once. One app will wait until the other has confirmed an accepted order before deluging you with their own orders, all taking you in the opposite direction (which makes you late for one or more deliveries, giving cause to terminate your contract).

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gruez 20 hours ago | parent [-]

Source?

	▲	underlipton 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Pure anecdata. However, the change from the first two days I multi-apped and made almost 3 times my usual hourly rate, to the following weekend, when >neither app would send me orders for up to half an hour >as soon as one had assigned me and order, the other would start sending my multiple per minute >all of these orders were either comically low-compensation (no tip), a 15-minute-plus drive away from the order I'd just accepted (to areas it had never sent me before), or both was marked.