Comment by three14
6 years ago
The real arbitrage opportunity is for a competitor to DoorDash to place orders through DoorDash, and pay the delivery person a small fee plus let the delivery person collect the DoorDash fee. You could scale this up to huge numbers.
Curious if doing so would survive a lawsuit. On the one hand, DoorDash could argue that it's unfair competition, but only by admitting that their deliveries are priced too low, which itself is unfair competition. I don't know how unfair competition is regulated.
What if you set up a fake Pizza website "Super Pizzas", that advertises the Pizza for $16. That site then places the order with DoorDash automatically.
Then Doordash will scrape "Super Pizzas" and sell those for say $12.
Then set up another site "Supper Pizzas 2" selling the $12 Pizzas, buying from Doordash, and then Doordash will scrape that and sell them for $9.
Repeat until you have a site selling $1 Pizzas, then get that posted on Lifehacker!
Or serve a different version of the pizza place's website to the Doordash scraper with lower prices?
Wouldn't be too hard to do, use a PNG for your human menu and embed a "door dash" priced menu below.
How would the competitor get customers to pay higher than what DoorDash charges?