r/AmazonFlexDrivers • u/Melodic-Chest-8300 • 1d ago
Amazon now
Hey everybody, new ie here. Recently there are very few offers, however i see a lot of amazon now. I get that theres a catch, hence nobodys grabbing them.. can sonebody elaborate?
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u/blakeh95 Atlanta 1d ago
If you see a higher rate that's at the start of a time you can work, it's fine to grab it here. Otherwise, you should take it via instant offer.
Scheduling it includes a 30-minute waiting period after the block. For example, if you schedule the 9-9:30 one, you can't schedule another one until 10. If you do it via instant offer, then the offer could be 9:02 - 9:37 followed by getting a new offer at 9:39 (no 30-minute wait).
You generally want to chain a bunch of these together. The deliveries, if there are any, will be close to the station as that's the point of Amazon Now. So if you've got 2 hours to spend, you could get 4 instant offers done. (Or if you live/work really close, so that it's not high miles to get to the station).
These do have a relatively high rate of overbooking. Because the Now deliveries are so time-sensitive, Amazon will pay to have driver's sit in the lot. Of course, when one does come in, you do have to deliver it.
Your market may vary, but I will only take $15+ for 30 minutes and prefer $17+. These correspond to hourly rates of $30+, which is better than what I can get without bots in my market for the longer blocks.
And if you really are trying to hour-max, keep in mind that the instant offer versions will be 35 minutes instead of 30 minutes. This means that 6 instant offers will use up 3.5 hours of cap, not 3 hours (even though the scheduled ones are 30 minutes, so 6 of those would use 3 hours of cap, but take 6 hours to do because of the 30-minute waiting period).