Fucking legendary. Your friend is a genius.
Comment on "30 minutes or it's free" back then was wild
Freefall@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Buddy of mine went on a dominoes kick a while back. They have an automated system that lets you get 60pts if the delivery was slow. He would spend 20 for bread bites and put no tip and “contactless-knock loudly” in the instructions(if they were on time and knocked, he would give them the 20 he kept next to the door…ONE driver earned the 20…that was it). They took forever and he didn’t care, then he would collect his 60pts. He had 600+pts banked at one point because he couldn’t spend them fast enough. Every Saturday we all got together to catch up and hang and he would have pizzas delivered for free, well the $3 delivery fee. LOL
Those morons never figured it out. He still does it sometimes, but not as religiously.
Coreidan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
fukurthumz420@lemmy.world 1 month ago
how was it free if he paid $20 each time he earned 60 pts?
BaldManGoomba@lemmy.world 1 month ago
He paid for 10 orders and wouldn’t tip unless they came on time . Only one person got tipped $20 by not being late. His secret was since he didn’t tip in app people were less motivated then probably he became a shitblist house making his service worse. After 10 orders he got a pizza party free with points.
SSJMarx@lemm.ee 1 month ago
But he still had to buy the bread bites, which you have to account for the price of in the price of the “free” pizza party. Bread items are also among the most overpriced things on the menu, so from Dominos’ perspective they might not have been losing any money at all to the guy who thought he had figured out how to scam them.
Dud@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The being late to his house netted him 60 points via an automated apology email which is like 6 orders now.
rozodru@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
he didn’t pay for the bread bites though. OP says he’d use 20 points every time to get free bread bites. So he would pay the for the pizza but not the bread bites. he ordered both at the same time. He would get 60 points automatically because he ensured the delivery would be slow on purpose.
So if he was doing that every order, he’s making a point profit of 40 per order. Eventually he would have enough points built up to not even pay for the pizza AND bites.
meleethecat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It sounds like he was purposely being a jerk so he could screw the drivers out of their tips, and meanwhile Dominoes made way more profit off those 10 orders than it cost them to give him one free pizza.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Your buddy is an asshole and back when I did pizza delivery he’d absolutely be at the bottom of any delivery list.
ZMonster@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’ve never understood this mentality. I just took orders and delivered them. All of my drivers would lose their shit about which orders were tipping what, so I’d just grab the contentious ones and get them done. I can’t tell you how many of those turned into some of my best customers and also some of my wildest experiences. Also, a few people that were expecting to be treated like shit for not pre-tipping would then call in to thank my manager for my service and attitude despite it, I remember one was a single mother who looked, traumatized, when she opened the door. We were allowed to comp a certain number of orders a night so I did that for her and she just started crying. I never forget that one. So not worrying about it literally paid for itself with several raises and a promotion. Sure, there were dickbags who would stiff you but it all came out in the end. So, my advice is to just do your job and it will work out. If people see that they can rely on you to get it done right every time then they are far more likely to tip better on the next one, so just treat every delivery as one you’ll be tipped for later. If you’re not getting paid, then get a different job. ,
I did get a few unconventional tips too. One guy would just give me a beer and then the option to drink it real quick with him (stupid, I know, but I don’t drink anymore and luckily I never killed anyone). There was a group of Canadian travelers that would give me an entire case when they came through. And also an entire bag packed tight with very potent weed, in exchange for my delivery bag. I have no idea why they wanted it so bad, but while considering it they gave me a shot of something and then they flashed me. I wasn’t actually considering what to do. I was already really stoned at the time and was struggling to get the words out that I would accept. But the unexpected tits sobered me up instantly and I handed the bag over. My buddy realized that I was trashed when I got in that night so he put me on dishes for cover. When it was discovered, I blamed the missing bag on a dickweed that had recently been fired and they asked no more questions. An older guy gave me a pirate Lego set, it was a little island with a palm tree and a treasure chest. And a delivery that was technically outside our area but missed by the computer turned out to be a ring holding and famously nicknamed NFL player. His driveway was a very long previously unmaintained road that had once intersected a road in our service area. But that was blocked off and access was from the other side of an enormous housing development of mansions. Never knew that was a thing. There were a lot of pools. And lights. That’s all I remember though.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Because people just want consistency. If you get 15 percent all night it’s better mentally and financially then betting on the guy that plays games with your income. That money is rent, groceries, keeping the car going, and maybe some beer. You make me wonder if I’m going to make rent just because you think you’ve got some inside line on motivation and I’m going to deliver cold pizza anytime there’s another order at the same time.
masterofn001@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
That’s hilarious.
Because nowadays the amount of times deliveries are screwed up, I tip afterwards. I put a small tip on the order.
When someone gets it right, I’m way too happy and I might toss them 20cad.
Just for not fucking up.
(I’d always tip 5-10 on a pizza from a pizza place if I ordered directly from a pizza place and the pizza place had their own pizza place delivery drivers. Pizza place)
Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The gig drivers literally live off tips in most places. The app is paying them enough for gas and car maintenance. I know it’s a fucked up system but if you’re using it then please actually pay the drivers.
drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The drivers don’t make the pizza. But yeah, go a head and get mad at them for it.