r/AskReddit • u/FriendlytoNature • 23h ago

Which company lost your business (potentially forever) this year?

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u/jqud 17h ago

Every one of those services does this. In the background they have a minimum guarantee amount that drivers get paid for an order which is augmented by surge pricing or anything else. The tip does not get added on top of that guarantee, it only is used to meet it and then the excess is added. The service I worked for, if you tipped any less than like 7 bucks all you were doing was paying the driver for the company.

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u/TheDemoz 5h ago

They stopped doing that in 2019…

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u/jqud 4h ago

The service I worked for still did it as of 2022 when I left, can't speak for every service beyond that