This worked as of 21:30 Eastern time on 6 December 2024.
Hmmm US only? Doesn’t work here.
In the US, didn’t work. Just says, “Thank you for your appreciation! We’ll share your thanks with your driver.”
Edit: Ups delivered it. It probably has to be their personal fleet or one of their flex vehicles.
Mine just showed me products. Also I guess my last one was not delivered by Amazon either. Good catch.
Worked for me
Openly promoting the fact that they underpay their drivers, for a limited time.
“Yes, we could be paying our drivers an extra 5 dollars, we just choose not to, lol.”
Why would they do it if they can have you do it?
You’re not paying, you’re clicking a button to have Amazon give $5 of their money to the driver.
They could have just given a bunch of drivers $5, but then they wouldn’t make a bunch of customers think Amazon isn’t too bad.So you should push the button, but also pointedly continue to think badly of Amazon.
Asking honestly, respectfully, and in good faith - is there a downside to doing this? Edit: I mean, is there a downside to rewarding the driver via this promotion.
Yes, it undermines the idea that drivers deserve a living wage and is just Amazon dipping their toes into shifting their drivers into something closer to ‘ride share’ style independent contractors who primarily get their income from tips.
Short term benefit for long term problems.
Plenty of untipped jobs are seen as being undeserving of a living wage, though, so I don’t follow your logic.
I mean, 100% the drivers should be being paid more and the entire system is fundamentally broken.
In the here and now though, where I can’t do anything to fix anything even if I entirely stop using Amazon forever right this moment, giving someone a random $5 that they wouldn’t otherwise have is a good thing.
Yea if you’re going to use a bad service might as well help while you can. It’s like going to a restaurant then not tipping because it encourages owners. They don’t give a fuck cause they still get your money
Short term benefit for long term problems.
slippery slope fallacy
Clicking a button that gives someone money at no expense to you isn’t causing the issue you’re worried about, it’s at worst symptomatic of the broken system that might lead to your concern.
Not all slippery slopes are fallacies.
Ever notice that all the counter service places are leaning into tipping because it became popular with coffee shops?
Sure. And if Amazon ever asks us to tip delivery people with our own money we shouldn’t because that’s bullshit.
That being bullshit has no bearing on if it’s good to click the button that gives someone $5 at no expense to you out of their employers pocket.
If a counter service place has a button I could press to give them $5 of the stores money, I would press it every time. That’s not a tip because it’s not my money supplementing the employees wages.
Technically youre right, but would you say the same if Putin started handing out band-aids to ukrainians who just lost their families?
… What? That’s such a non-sequitor that I’m honestly not sure if you replied to the wrong thing or something.
I can’t say that I would say the same thing in an entirely different situation with nothing to do with the other.
Its a similar situation. You ‘cant do anything about anything’ and handing out band-aids is ‘better than nothing’. Would ‘giving someone a band-aid is a good thing’ be your stance in that situation or would you find it rather inappropriate?
Then give the tip in person. Don’t let amazon know they can count on their customers to carry the burden of paying their employees
Oh God no, then it’s actually me paying the money, which makes it an actual tip.
If Amazon asks if they should pay someone more, the answer is always yes.That’s fair too. I’ll be honest I’m always going to be pessimistic as hell when it comes to anything amazon says and does. If it’s their money, make them pay up
The downside is that it costs Amazon $5.00.
You don’t even know if this is really giving money to anyone, let alone the driver for your delivery.
But it doesn’t cost you anything. Worst case scenario is the same as not doing it.
That’s only a downside if you’re an Amazon executive or shareholder. To a human being, it isn’t.
I don’t know if a scrappy lil startup like Amazon can handle it.
The last thing I had delivered was an expensive drone, and it was delivered a block from my house. I had to use google street view to match the house with the delivery photo from Amazon. No tip for this driver!
Well hell, wish I’d known this when they dropped off a bunch of flat pack desks. I’m not tipping the guy that just dropped off a kitchen spoon.
Why not. Is not like that was his only delivery for the day. Plus it’s no cost to you.
I don’t like paying people just to do the job they’re already paid for, and I think it’s bad for society to promote it.
You know what else is bad for society to promote? Billionaires like Jeff Bezos.
I think your driver deserves $5 more than he does. Especially this time of year when they are no doubt working much harder for the same pay they get the rest of the year. The drivers, not Bezos. Bezos is doing the same amount of work (practically nothing) and getting way, way, way more money this time of year.
That’s bad for society.
I agree, and also think a stupid stunt is a poor way to reach better wages. It’s just a way to placate the masses.
This is paid by Amazon as a social experiment. You don’t pay the tip.
Doesn’t matter, the money is nothing to me, it’s simple principle. I also don’t use store cards or coupons.
Weird flex
I’m a weird guy
Do you refuse to buy items on sale? Do you hate having money?
I do avoid most sales. They’re either a lie using a fake regular price, or a low quality product that didn’t sell, so they taking a loss to get rid of it. Either way, not worth my time. I shop for quality products that meet my needs when I need them, not when they’re on sale.
If you have an Echo device, you can also ask Alexa to “thank my driver” and it will apply it to the most recent order on your account. Just did it for an order that came in on Monday and Alexa gave me the $5 spiel.
Didn’t work for me either :\
Can any driver confirm they get the extra pay?
Or is this just propaganda to make the buyer feel good?
Done. Two seconds. 2/3 hrs pay to them. Do it you assholes.
Didn’t say anything about giving $5 :/
It could limit it to a certain number per driver or something? Who knows. It’s not transparent (on purpose) so we probably can’t know what’s going on.
This happened to my bestie just now when I screencapped that it had worked for me and told him about it.
I wonder what the difference is? Maybe its regional?
Edit: He figured his out. He placed the order through Amazon but it was delivered via USPS. Maybe that’s the issue?
Hmm, I don’t know. The last purchase was a book my mom bought, it’s possible that’s the issue. I’ll try again next time we order something to make sure.
Thanks!
Nah, most recent one didn’t follow delivery instructions. Too bad you can’t pick, all the others have deserved it.
Lmao I feel you but you never know what the other person’s day is like. We order from them while coming on here and cheering for their fair wages. We gotta have empathy that their lives suck in the micro, if we can see the socioeconomic component in the macro.
(Also, do it after your next order if you really want to withhold)
I’ve angrily thought “I want my ten dollar fucking tip back from this piece of shit” than shutup, ate my cold or incorrect meal, thought over it without being hangry and realized the evening is still worse for them.
My delivery instruction is “ring the doorbell” (so I know to come downstairs and grab it off the major street before it’s stolen)
Yes, my post was a trap for people like you.
Cool but in all seriousness try not using amazon and using ethical alternatives if you can afford it.
Been using ebay more and I like it. Although one of my previous ebay order went through Amazon because the asshole seller just purchased it in amazon and sent it to me. They profited what? $2
Ive had some really bad problems with eBay and is actually why I went back to amazon.
One item was taking a long time to ship with no label made, I contacted the seller and told me that things were super busy in Japan. I gave him the benefit of a doubt and I checked in another month later, I asked him just to refund it, h but he kept delaying and eventually I just tried to go to eBay customer service. THERE IS NO CUSTOMER SERVICE. There are only automated menus for you to click through for different options, and since at this point it was longer than 3 months I couldn’t do anything to get a refund, despite zero evidence of shipping being provided.
I have had to refund some stuff from amazon from time to time and a couple other issues, but those are always sorted promptly, especially after speaking to customer service. The complete lack of any human to speak to on ebay gives me zero confidence buying from there.
I got scammed on a gpu once. It was a too good to be true listing and the seller only had like 1 review and yet I still bought it. Contacted ebay and they refunded me fairly quickly.
That’s nice and all, and deserved, but that would mean me using the amazon app which has far too many negatives for me to consider
it works in the browser too, just did it
Yup! I also was able to do it using the browser!
IIRC when Amazon Fresh was a thing, they were encouraging tips, but they were caught using the tips to cover some of the hourly wages.
Texas schools need $X funding. The Texas Lottery was meant to add $Y dollars to education. The lottery was sold to the public as meaning schools would be funded to the tune of $(X + Y) each year.
Instead, the state funds $(X - Y). Instead of supplementing education funds, the lottery supplants it. And it’s the exact same thing with tipping culture.
(I’d bet this is how most state lotteries which fund education operate.)
Chiming in to say it’s the same in VA. I’m reasonably confident it’s the same everywhere.
Just tried it and it worked. 9:30 PST.
Is there an option for “Request Amazon to pay drivers decently and improve working conditions?”
Nope, just a “illegally suppress unions” button.
Want Amazon drivers here that can give some insight into this?
Yes
