Still, you should hassle the corpos, but don’t forget that the driver is the real criminal here.
Honestly, I put 50% blame on the thief, 50% blame on Bestbuy. Theft from your fellow working class people is fucked up, but BestBuy using shady delivery services is also unacceptable.
There was no option at all. Besides, this isn't a food delivery (where the pay is shit). You can check on youtube, the payout for package delivery averages from $20-$25 per hour (well other than the fact that they don't get health benefits like with traditional employment), total payout is shown before they accept, they could've just declined.
Hmm yea I get it. Btw what electronics stores are you gonna use? I don't know where to look now.
Tbf, in-store is probably fine, just don't do Online buying and delivery unless you have confirmation that they switched back to normal UPS or Fedex or something.
Edit: Amazon also uses independent contractors called Amazon Flex, so if you ever want to buy expensive stuff, you should turn on the OTP verification option.
They like to tax people, but only to the working class. If you are Rich? Well here's a tax cut for you! 🤦♂️
Its not a food delivery, you shouldn't need to tip, they had too high of an expectation. I searched up some youtube videos, they get an average of $20-$25 an hour if completed within the estimated time. Its similar to Amazon Flex, they get paid real money (the only dowside is, they are considered "independent contractors" therefore no healthcare and other benefits, but otherwise, it pays pretty much like a normal job). In contrast, for food delivery, base pay is $2.5 and you should tip like $5 minimum + $1 per mile distance because otherwise they wouldn't have even minimum wage (or just don't use the service). When they accept an offer, they can already see the estimated total payout, if they don't like the amount (eg: if someone didn't tip for food deliver), they should have just declined it, there is no penalty for rejecting an offer (there is a penalty for accepting, then not completing the order). They saw the whole payout for X number of packages, they shouldn't have accepted if they didn't like it. (Not blaming the drivers btw, just saying they should stand up for themselves and not let Doordash bully them)
The thing is, the only options I got was same-day for $9.99, or "tomorrow" for free, no other options.
Guess what, the "tomorrow" was actually 2 days later, and they still didn't bother just using UPS.
Amazon does that, but then I'm not sure if I can trust if amazon doesn't just sell something returned after getting used as "new".
Manufacturer's websites also doesn't have a lot of discounts like Bestbuy or Amazon has.
Not sure what place to get stuff from now. Or do I have to bother asking a relative to drive me to a local BestBuy.
then you gain the extra potential illegal action due to forgery. so its a game of risk management for the drivers.
I think you are overestimating how much cops actually care. Most likely, one of these companies just files an insurance claim and that's it. Maybe if the delivery person does it often they'll get fired, but I haven't seen anyone actually going to prison.
USA. Sorry for my American Defaultism 😅
A lot of companies have moved towards using Uber or Doordash for same day deliveries.
Pizza places, especially the chain pizzas places, all use Doordash now 😓. I think Dominos is the only one left near me that still has in-store drivers.
I don’t like buying stuff from Amazon, but they’re the only company I’d trust for same-day at the moment. They directly employ the delivery drivers (via Amazon Flex) so you don’t end up with issues where Doordash and Best Buy blame each other and neither takes full responsibility.
I don't exactly "trust" amazon either, they deliver to the wrong addess all the time. But for expensive stuff, there's an option to require a PIN, so no "deliver to the wrong address" or "place at the door and then steal it" shenanigans. That's why they are slightly less shitty.
Also, my order for Bestbuy wasn't even "same day". Order was placed on June 17 for "tomorrow" (aka: June 18), then it got delayed to today, then promptly stolen.
(For people who don't know, BestBuy is an electronics store that is common in the USA)
This would be in c/ActuallyInfuriating if the consumer protections weren't as good, but for now, its just a chargeback away from fixing the problem. (I hope the bank doesn't fucks me over. If they fuck with me, then this is gonna end up in Actually Infuriating). Anyways:
Two days ago, I bought a laptop on BestBuy, but they didn't use UPS like they had in the past, instead they used Doordash 🤦♂️. When I saw that, I wanted to cancel because I didn't trust fucking Doordash, but it didn't let me cancel, so I just hoped nothing bad happens.
Oh wow, my gut feeling about Doordash actually predicted the future.
So, today it was supppsed to be delivered, I saw the guy park in front of my house for a few minutes (I know that's him because I saw him on the map on the Doordash tracking link), dude walked out, looked my house, went back into his car, drove to the back alleyway (its a neighborhood of single family row-houses), I saw him on my CCTV cameras, he place down the package at a neighbor's back door, take a pickture, then grabbed it place it back in his car, then quickly drove away.
Bruh.
Now I have to make some phonecalls. Thanks, corporate, great fucking job. I hope the CEO of bestbuy can choke on his pay increase.
And if you are wonder why I didn't just go to BestBuy, I live in a car-centric city and I don't have easy access to a car, and carrying big electronics in public transit is just asking for someone to mug you.
At this point, corporations are just in a race to see who gets to be crowned the worst corporation. I mean I hate Amazon and Bezos too, but at least they have a PIN verification system now, so drivers can't just steal stuff, wtf is BestBuy doing? Fuck these shitty corporation.
I wish I could show you the camera footage, but don't wanna get doxed.
Probably not using ~~best~WorstBuy again, not with this bullshit "Doordash" delivery. What an actual disaster.
Btw I tried calling bestbuy, they had a fucking voice-bot thing that refused to let me talk to a human until 48 hours has passed. So I just go straight for the dispute, right? I don't wanna wait 48 hours.
Update: So I got through the bot thing by spamming 0 (or perhaps some other key, I can't be sure), I got to a rep and explained the situation, they said they send a request to BestBuy and BestBuy will do an "investigation" with Doordash, whatever that means, and then refund. They said it's supposed to take 3 bussiness days. Well, today is Thursday, Tomorrow is Friday, so I'm guessing by Tuesday end of the day it's supposed to be resolved?
I mean, I'm giving them 1 week. I'm definitely filing that dispute the Friday next week. Technically I have 60 days to dispute, but I'm gonna stay on the safe side and 1 week is all I'm giving. I'm really wanting to just file right now, but I'm don't want to get banned from BestBuy for life just yet, but if they don't refund within a week, I'm just gonna have to be banned from bestbuy, I guess... 🤷♂️
Gonna update later if y'all are still curious in a few days.
Not clear enough to identify. Also, cops are highly unlikely to do anything especially if the refund happens and theb I techically wouldn't be out of pocket for anything (besides the time wasted and mental energy drained on this issue).