[ceejayoz]

> Doordash or whatever says 'for $x we will put a WhateverBurger burger into your hand'. As long as that's what they achieve, this seems fundamentally honest to me.

That's not what they do, though. The receipt shows line items with a cost for the food, a fee for the service, and a delivery fee.

The problem is there's an additional fee for the service hidden in the supposed cost of the food; customers don't actually know what Doordash's cut really is.

[chrisseaton]

> customers don't actually know what Doordash's cut really is

But why would you care? I don't need to know the bill of materials for all my transactions. When I buy a coffee I don't expect to know how much they paid for the beans.

[root_axis]

That doesn't seem like a good comparison, the burger is not a "bill of materials" it's a final product available directly to customers by the restaurant, consumers would definently care that they are being sold a marked up burger that is available to them for 25% cheaper. If a delivery company charges me 70 dollars to deliver a flat screen tv that's fine, but if they charge me 70 dollars but also markup the price of the TV 25% I'd consider that pretty dishonest and would at least want to know that I have the option to save 25% by managing delivery on my own.

[chrisseaton]

> If a delivery company charges me 70 dollars to deliver a flat screen tv that's fine, but if they charge me 70 dollars but also markup the price of the TV 25% I'd consider that pretty dishonest and would at least want to know that I have the option to save 25% by managing delivery on my own.

...but this is exactly how other industries already work and everyone's fine with it!

When you buy a TV from Amazon they both mark it up and also charge you delivery!

And they didn't give you the option to save by managing delivery on your own!

Why don't you get mad at Amazon for marking up products as well as charging delivery?

[root_axis]

Amazon is a marketplace not a delivery service. It is expected that you might pay different prices in different marketplaces, it's not expected that a delivery service would charge you a delivery fee and a markup on the cost of the product that you're buying - that is not normal.

[ceejayoz]

I care because they're explicitly listing a fee for the app that doesn't accurately reflect what that fee is.

If you wanna say "delivering a pizza will cost you $20" and leave at that, fine. If you tell me the Grubhub fee is $5 and it's actually $10, I'm upset.