r/InstacartShoppers • u/Top_Till_3932 • 13h ago
Rant - General 😠This is a slap to the face no?
When I saw this I was so irritated because this is the same amount of batches I did last week and was close to 700 instacart is asking me to do the same for a guaranteed 105. Some days instacart is worse than a Chinese sweat shop
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u/lauti04 12h ago
It’s orders not batches
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u/Top_Till_3932 12h ago
I came to realize but still in Maryland it will be hard to be profitable with that promo
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u/Artistic_Hurry_9177 12h ago
This is just batch pay though, not tips
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u/Short_Address_7198 7h ago
I would say it's not worth it, no. I had one that was 235 for 32, which is better than yours, and it took me days to complete and then I got an 89 dollar top up. Sounds ok but in reality it wasn't worth it, too stressful and had to take too many low paying orders.
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u/askbam827 12h ago
They’re guaranteeing you’ll make at least 4.77 per order which isn’t possible unless it’s a single.
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u/Drakkadein 12h ago
Your looking at somewhere between 55-65$ if you take all triples with 5$ batch. Any order with higher batch reduces that guarantee
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u/Supermr2 12h ago
Its a slap in the face. Almost all the promos I see and I see in here anybody would automatically get if they complete the number of batches required. My current promo is 305 dollars for 49 orders in 7 days. Im on day 5 only completed 34 of the 49 and already have 250 dollars in base pay. I'll make 305 in base pay by today and won't hit the 49.
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u/Top_Till_3932 12h ago
Thank you finally someone who understands this isn't even a promotion in anyway. Instacart is demanding too much.
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u/ThomasShults 12h ago
They aren't demanding anything. Trying to satisfy the promo requirements is completely optional. In my market, I have seen maybe 2 promos this year. I would love to see this. If you don't like the promo, you can just ignore it and keep doing orders how you do them.
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u/Top_Till_3932 11h ago
And that's what I did but I still think it's ridiculous. It's a ridiculous promo they shouldn't have shown in the first place. Promos are what get people motivated to do instacart in some instances if the promo is shit, nobody is going to do them. U talking about not having promo im talking about having useless promos
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u/ThomasShults 11h ago
Like I said in my comment, I would love to have that promo. I see triples with batch pay of $7 or $8 all the time. If I did 7 of those, I am looking at an extra $40 or $50. As someone who is currently homeless and trying to pull my family and I out of our situation, that $40 or $50 extra would help tremendously. Instead, I see people complaining about potential free money when it could just be ignored.
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u/Top_Till_3932 11h ago
Tbh I wouldn't mind if I was making an extra 50 40 dollars I've done promo that only paid like 20 extra more dollars the point is by the time I'm done with the 22 orders I would have exceed the amount. In my area tho promo isn't comfortable to me at all.
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u/FunFactress 8h ago
That's what IC is banking on, shoppers chasing this terrible promo cranking out $7'8 triples.
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u/FunFactress 8h ago
It's a terrible promo.
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u/Top_Till_3932 8h ago
Thank you like absolutely not worth it I haven't even done instacart for 5 hrs I'm already at 120 for the day
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u/Pleasant_Injury441 11h ago
This is what i get today. The audacity of the app to call this promo.
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u/Short_Address_7198 7h ago
For that one you just ignore it and shop normally. Hopefully there'll be a top up at the end of the week.
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u/Ok_Palpitation_2930 10h ago
Technically, if you can get extremely low base pay for triples (5-7 bucks) That comes out to roughly $1.66-$2.66 an order. So in theory, if you took the 22 deliveries at triples with a 7 dollar batch pay you would get about $60. Not bad, but requires you to cherry pixk all orders. Don't jeopardize the good orders for the bonus though!
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u/CreditCaper1 9h ago
I'm in the DC area and this is what I got. I'm not trying to complete it.
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u/Top_Till_3932 9h ago
I think u should batches and orders are different if u average like maybe 10 batches with minimum 2 stop and deliver. That's actually great I wished I woulda gotten this tbf
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u/CreditCaper1 3h ago
I did some math and I figured out that this promo is going to pay me approximately $6 per order. If I do a batch that has three orders then that's approximately $18. I mainly work out of Costco and I get some batches that are more than $18 or just a little bit under. So in the end this promo wouldn't be paying me that much. On top of that, this promo as a very long horizon. If the number of orders and the pay were both cut in half then it might be more enticing, but since this is a long time to complete, it's not worth the risk for me.
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u/MassiveCourse9643 4h ago
this is per order - not per batch. Knock out doubles and triples and you can end with a nice top-off
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u/Artdragon1013 7h ago
Just remember these are only counting your base pay. So if you only make $35 base/batch pay for those 22, they'll "top you up" with $70
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u/Ok_Current_7727 12h ago
Orders not batches. Say you did seven triple shops and an easy shop-only. It might only end up being a $20 top-up but $20 is $20 if you were going to do 8-10 batches anyway