We don't know who needs to hear this, but you definitely should not be “tip baiting.”
The underlying principle being used to combat the coronavirus is that we’re all in this together working for a greater good—and if you’re not practicing social distancing or otherwise breaking the rules, you haven’t found a “loophole” in the system; you’re putting other people at risk. Needless to say, we should treat the people who
with the same consideration—and just because you can get away with misleading how much you’re going to tip them, you definitely should not be “tip baiting.”The concept of “tip baiting” is deviously simple: When you place an order through a service like Instacart, you’re asked to put in how much you plan to tip as an incentive for shoppers to take it. However, Instacart also lets people change their tip after their order—which also makes a bit of sense.
On rare occasions, though, customers have been taking advantage of this system, promising large tips upfront to bait shoppers to take their orders, and then dropping them once the order has been completed.on a shopper who thought she was receiving a $54.95 tip but later saw it adjusted all the way down to zero. “I was flabbergasted,” Annaliisa Arambula, who relies on Instacart as her fulltime job, told the news site.
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