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The Offer
Targeted offer, shows up in app
- UberEats Pass is offering 50% off an annual plan
Our Verdict
Think this only shows up if you’ve never been a pass holder in the past. Works with UberEats promo codes, although some people think they receive less promo codes once signing up for UberEats deals.
Receive this offer yesterday, but clicking on the banner in app leads to ‘Oops, something went wrong.’ Nothing worse for a brand or a marketing campaign that you offer something unrealizable to customers
To me… the whole point of Doordash and Uber Eats is to order food and not have to go out and pick it up. Anyway… it might not be a good idea to plan on using UE in more rural types of areas. It has been my experience with past orders that UE will allow me to place an order… pay for it… then cancel it because they have no drivers in the area to deliver it. This has happened so many times that I don’t use their service unless Doordash isn’t working. One of the ways you can try to keep UE from doing this is to scroll down the app and see if says there are no drivers for a restaurant. However… sometimes it still happens. Just fyi… hoping maybe this might help somebody at some point. John 3:16
The whole point of food delivery apps for the DoC community is to get free or highly subsidized food.
The notification popped up for me and I last had a Eats Pass 2 months ago, which was canceled last month. Was able to use Uber Cash that I got at 15% off, so was worth it to me.
The fees are so bad. Why is there a “service charge” when I am already tipping a driver? Other than pickup orders, i have real difficulty using the monthly amex credits. Totally agree that the annual pass is useless.
Because tips go to the driver, service charge goes to Uber.
Sadly this is worth less than nothing. Uber has shifted most of the delivery fees to a different fee, prices are are so marked up and drivers so non existent most of the time that it’s a challenge to even make good use of the amex credit let alone pay extra money so you have to use Uber more. They include the Uber pass with the amex platinum and it doesn’t even move the needle for me on using Uber beyond the 15 bucks a month.
I’m not proud about how much takeout I’ve been ordering since the pandemic hit, but “worth less than nothing” definitely doesn’t apply to my situation. It’s nice to not have to scrutinize exactly which restaurants at exactly which times you get extra gouged for. The $10/mo subscription has consistently “paid for itself” at least three times over each month since I started it.
YMMV, of course. The less you use Uber Eats the less the subscription will do for you, obviously, but the driver/restaurant situation in your area will have a big impact on how much you get out of it, too; if you have no participating restaurants for the extra discount and rarely get hit by the extra time/distance-based delivery fees that the pass waives, then it could easily be a losing proposition.
This was true a couple of months ago. Now, Uber excludes the majority of restaurants in my area from Eats Pass free delivery. I also have the DashPash from Doordash (comes free with Sapphire card), and I get free delivery everywhere in my radius. I’ve been an Eats Pass subscriber since they introduced it, and just canceled it (I’m also Diamond).
Furthermore, if you compare menu prices on UE to the restaurant’s actual prices, you’re paying a significant markup to begin with. Uber has been on a persistent effort to diminish value. They made Diamond rewards worthless, keep adding/increasing fees, and now Eats Pass is nearly worthless. I won’t be using Uber Eats for the foreseeable future.
It’s not so bad for pick up orders rather than delivery, as there’s no service or delivery fees on those and some restaurants have the same base prices on their uber eats menu as the actual restaurant menu.
Ditto