Previous discussion:
Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23216852 - May 2020 (518 comments)
Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23216852 - May 2020 (518 comments)
>Note 1: We found out afterward that was all the result of a “demand test” by
>Doordash. They have a test period where they scrape the restaurant’s website
>and don’t charge any fees to anyone, so they can ideally go to the restaurant
>with positive order data to then get the restaurant signed onto the platform.
>If we had to pay a customer fee on the order, it would’ve further cut into our
>arbitrage profits (though maybe we could’ve incorporated DashPass as part of
>the calculation).