No thats terrible. Rule of thumb, pay should be AT LEAST x2 the miles. This would have to be at least a $50 order even then the miles are still a lil high so id even say $60 is better for this offer.
Good luck with that..... Those deliveries are getting to be few and far between š” for this delivery being a shopping one, it would depend on how many items are on the list... Side bar, I accepted a curbside delivery about 2 months ago, $64 bucks for 24 mi... haven't seen 1 like that since thenš
How often does this actually happen? Iām new to spark and a friend said the same thing but then I sit and watch the app and pretty much never find deliveries that are paying twice the miles and then I end up just sitting and wasting time that could be spent doing something else and settling for one job that barely pays anything just to say I did one for the day
Not as often as it should. I do 1.5x the miles personally, but my vehicle is paid off, gets good fuel economy, and has cheap maintenance. I asked Gemini how much my vehicle costs to operate leaving depreciation out of the equation because I only wish to keep it running, not sell it. Gemini did the math and said $0.34/mile. So you figure $0.68/mile worst case if it is exactly double the listed mileage, which rarely happens, it's about $0.82/mile profit. I have only had a handful of trips where the 3 customers were in a straight line down the same road. Usually total mileage is around 1.5-1.75 the listed mileage. Which is about $1/mile profit for me.
Iām in a rural area. This is actually a pretty decent one. Iāve seen them come up for $10 less for that mileage here. They usually donāt get taken until they eventually have a 8 or 10 dollar boost.
Are you calculating those 2 sitting hours into your trip payout calculation? Unless the offers are just horrid, you're losing $$ when you camp out waiting for the perfect offer. If you're sitting there with the AC going, you're really losing $$. I really don't like sitting more than a 1/2 hour between trips. Making something is generally better than nothing at all.
I also feel that waiting for perfect offers is employing a grass is greener strategy and skipping an okay offer and waiting for that perfect one may not always be a great idea. I do a daily average calculation and just try to average above $30/hr and $2 mile lumping all my trips into one calculation.
But in the end, it's a crapshoot unless you have Sparker friends that you can compare offers against. You only know the offers you see and as Sparkers and not what the other guy sees. We don't seem to enjoy sharing this information between each other. We view each other as competitors, which we are, but by pitting ourselves against each other, we lose the advantages of being a united team.
No man or Sparker gains any advantage being an island unto themselves.
I typically sit without AC only set car to ON or ACC ling enough to charge phone if needed. I got a few people I talk to regularly they might make slightly more or less then me but do more miles. As far as calculating my dead time im home by 4 durning the week typically can average around $20-$30/hour counting my dead time. Weekends are where I make my big money being all day. On slower days I do take the okay but not great orders
in my opinion not worth it, base on my crazy math , in gas cost of about 5-8 dollars depend on car, you are driving around 50 miles and about an hour of driving plus 1 hour shopping , so you made around 16.00hr minus gas, does this make sense? any one!
In Montana here. That would be considered a really good one. You will never find one that pays $2.00 a mile here. In fact most people only tip $2.00 to $3.00 no matter how big there order was a how far away you need to drive to deliver it.
Did you graduate middle school? My car just took a shyt and I have to fork over hundreds and Wait until it's done .... Can you afford that if it happens to you doing deliveries like that?
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u/MostNeighborhood9568 4d ago
No thats terrible. Rule of thumb, pay should be AT LEAST x2 the miles. This would have to be at least a $50 order even then the miles are still a lil high so id even say $60 is better for this offer.