Over the years I have experienced below average customer service from Uber and this experience just tops it off.
We hardly ever order Uber Eats but as we had all had a few drinks we placed an order for our favourite restaurant, in our suburb. I noticed that the delivery fee was quite high at $6.99 especially as it is about a 5 minute drive at the most. Their response was "The delivery fee you pay will vary depending on the restaurant's distance from your delivery address and the restaurant's average cost of orders." So as I mentioned our house is very close to the restaurant so it must be due to the average cost of orders which sounds dodgy to me. It should always be based off location and maybe time of order like they do on Uber.
The conversation went back and forth for a while but still didn't make sense. Their final response was "We understand that you noticed this change on delivery fee within your area. While this means that the delivery fee you pay to order from certain restaurants has increased, it may be cheaper to order from some restaurants that are more closer to you". There aren't any closer to me but there is one further away (2 suburbs over) that is $3.99 for delivery fee. So I asked them how does that work? But they refused to answer me and literally closed the ticket every time I re-opened it and made a comment.
It's not the actual cost that annoys me but their responses that don't make sense and then just ignoring me altogether.
So now Uber is my last option for drives or food delivery.
Who else has experienced a similar issue with their support?
@lunchbox99: It's fine that OP asked. They received a response, several times it seems. Now OP keeps harrassing them and came here to complain about how they wouldn't leave customer service alone and CS have now stopped responding. There's not an answer that will satisfy OP, especially because it would just be speculation, which would be bad customer service, or repeating the same thing they have told OP already.
Communications would have gone out when they changed the pricing structure. They have used those to answer OP. The managers would have received the same communications. If anyone was given additional information it would have been made clear that it's not for the public. There's nothing they can do to help OP, there's nothing to compensate. It is pointless to keep harrassing them. It's up to OP to find a way to move past this.
Companies usually don't disclose exactly how they come up with prices. It doesn't always make sense. As long as it's legal they can charge what they want and they don't have to tell anyone why. If OP doesn't like it they will need to work towards getting the law changed so that companies have to provide information about how they decided on a price, because most companies don't provide that information. If OP wants it from Uber Eats for a $7 delivery charge, why wouldn't they want that information for absolutely everything they pay for? Why is it just this one thing OP can't let go of?
I'm glad you've found a solution for yourself and I hope OP can do the same and move on.