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Postmates Reviews Summary

Postmates has a rating of 1.1 stars from 875 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Postmates most frequently mention customer service, delivery fee and credit card. Postmates ranks 177th among Food Delivery sites.

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California
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First order was $75 in food + $46! In service fee + tip + delivery fee. When we complained about all the additional fees they charged us (after telling us the estimated fee was $5) they suggested we pay an additional $90 fee for their unlimited service. Last time for us, avoid postmates like the plague. (Food was late 2 hours by the way)

Date of experience: June 18, 2019
Texas
1 review
1 helpful vote
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If you must use this app, be careful and document every step of your ordering process - this app is not to be trusted.

1. Prices shown on the app were different from what I was charged. I was not shown a subtotal. I thought I ordered $26 worth of food - instead I was charged a subtotal for the food of $51 - almost double!

2. Delivery fee is already high of $5.99 - I was shown that and accepted it.

3. After placing my order, maybe 10 minutes later, another SERVICE FEE of $10.23 was added. This was NOT shown to me before placing my order, otherwise I would never have accepted or ordered from this app.

4. Delivery was supposed to be at 9:20pm but my food did not arrive until 40 minutes later - at 10:00pm.

5. One item of my order was missing upon delivery.

To resolve all these issues, I went through a long, lengthy process. I was refunded immediately for the item not delivered. The rest of the process was much more of a headache.

I sent the app screenshots via email of my subtotal shown to me, which was $26, versus what the restaurant said. The Postmates customer service rep said that because the restaurant was "not a partner", prices varied. So I just gave up and paid the $51.

However, I was not ready to accept the exorbitant service fee. I was told that the app "always" shows the fee prior to checkout - which is apparently 19.99% of your total bill! I said I was DEFINITELY not shown this. After going back and forth emailing the app, and threatening to write all the negative reviews online, they finally agreed to refund the service fee as a "one-time courtesy".

I will never use this app again - would rather walk a mile and pick up my food. The headache and scam is not worth it.

Date of experience: June 18, 2019
New York
1 review
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If I can give it no stars I would! Takes more than once to get to order then the site kept saying I had the wrong password- After many attempts, I went to place an order and the confirm button was shaded out so I couldn't complete it- An 1 1/2 hour waste of time! All customer service can say is sorry and we'll do better- Do they really think I would use them in the future!

Date of experience: June 6, 2019
Washington
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Postmates is a horrible site, company and needs to be put out of business, they scam, have hidden fees, lie, and don't communicate with customers, I've have an issue with nearly every order I ever placed, from trashy, rude delivery drivers, to a delivery driver charging personal stuff to my order while picking my order up charging me for it, postmates thinks it's ok to deceive customers. Today they got back to my emails after 9 days over a week to respond to me, telling me they deactivated my postmates account I say thank you to that they did me a favor, I followed it up with calling my bank and disputing all charges placed on my account by postmates!

Date of experience: May 28, 2019
California
2 reviews
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Don't use them.
May 27, 2019

Use anyone but postmates for delivery. Total scam. Worst deal. They do not honor promo credit. What happened to us was we checked our credit card bills. See that the credit was not enacted. You get in touch with Postmates but they refuse because it was past five days. It should be for 30 days. Sometimes you can't get your credit bill until a few days later. Total scam.

Date of experience: May 27, 2019
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I ordered some food. The food was delivered but the order was wrong. Postmates has no contact number to deal with immediate issues such as this. They only have idiots on the other end of an email. I was reimbursed half of what my entree was that I was not able to eat because it was wrong. I will never use post mates again. Grubhub or other delivery services are much better with customer service when issues arise.

Date of experience: May 25, 2019
Florida
1 review
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RIPOFF
May 18, 2019

I ordered from Postmates for the first time today. The total was $66 but, when I looked at the bill from the restaurant, it was $43! TOTAL RIPOFF! AVOID AVOID

Date of experience: May 18, 2019
Arizona
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Every item we try to order is well above what we pay at the restaurant on top of the feed. I just tried to order a hot dog from a place we usually just go to, the menu price at the restaurant is $5.39... Post mates price? $13.94! The photos are of the menu and postmates app. More than double priced for the same food and I am already paying a fee for the delivery. Liked Post mates for a minute, cancelling my membership.

Date of experience: May 17, 2019
California
1 review
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I've had several issues with this company. I've had a couple of incidents where the restaurant messed up my order and I reported it to PM but they just apologized and gave me some credit for my order which was okay until recently where I had another issue with chipotle where they didn't include a few items of what I had ordered and at that point, they stated that based on my history of issues with that, they won't provide any credits (as if its my fault that they messed up my order) Lastly, I had this one incident where I had to wait almost 2 hours for my food and when the driver finally was seen driving around the opposite side of the building, I called the driver to provide specific directions and he lied and stated that he was coming but he was actually leaving and marked my ordered as "delivered" They never address any issues with their drivers, they can just take the food with them and they won't be held liable. We had to drive to the restaurant and wait another half an hour for the food to be redone. They cannot be trusted and they fail to address and solve any issues. STAY AWAY UNLESS YOU WANT A BAD DRIVER THAT CAN GET AWAY WITH STEALING YOUR FOOD AND WRONG ORDERS!

Date of experience: May 15, 2019
California
1 review
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Tried Postmates one week free delivery offer and it was great, but we decided not to extend
Because we wouldn't use it enough, forgot to tell them. They charged my account $95. I called them, explained my position and they refunded my money. Couldn't ask for more.
I suggest you give them a try but follow the rules yourself and hold off on screaming insults
And threats.

Date of experience: May 7, 2019
Michigan
1 review
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May 5, 2019

Placed an order through Postmates for an order of loaded boneless wings. I was delivered either buffalo or barbecue boneless wings. When i reached out to Postmates to complain, they only offered me a refund of $1.16 and a credit of $5.

$1.16 refund for food that I don't eat.

I also ordered the tripple dipper platter with chipolte chicken crispers and southwest rolls... the crispers were SOOOO drowned in sauce that the rolls (which were not cut in half) were too and fell apart when you picked up.

Sloppy work, sloppy food, sloppy service.

I usually love Chili's but after this I'm done.

Date of experience: May 5, 2019
Arizona
1 review
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Horrible
May 3, 2019

Have tried to use them now for the last time. Always say items we order are unavailable and have gone as far as cancelling our order. NOT RELIABLE! Use another delivery food company.

Date of experience: May 3, 2019
Arizona
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I applied for this company and they denied my for a old driving on a suspended but i see the other drivers around here and kno for a fact some of them have drug charges and domestic violence charges. All i have on my record is the driving on a suspended. Also after reading reviews on a lot of sites im glad I didnt get the job the company is a joke.

Date of experience: May 1, 2019
Arizona
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I place and order to panda Express and it took the driver Chad 45 min to even deliver it. When he got to my house he called and said I have your order and made me walk to his car to get it. He handed me the bag and drove away. I knew something was wrong because of how light the bag was when I got inside and opened it up it was a bag of trash, the driver ate my food handed me his trash then drove away. I still am in shock and u think postmates would at least offer to have it rediliverd and refund but I cant even get a hold of them. I'll never order from there site again.

Date of experience: April 28, 2019
Oregon
1 review
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Items missing from order and was NEVER accomodated for it, money basically STOLEN. TERRIBLE! All they would do is say sorry for inconvenience without actually properly resolving the issue! I need my refund but they do not make any efforts for accomodations that COUNT! And this isn't the first-- im just going to delete the app after this post.

Date of experience: April 19, 2019
Colorado
1 review
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Buyer beware! I was supposed to be charged $32 & change & then my delivery time was being pushed back & back & back -then I noticed they were charging me $18 more. $50.04? What? There's no way I was going to pay that so I canceled my order- it had not been completed or picked up & I got an email stating they were going g to charge me $50.04? I cancelled & didn't receive anything! I will NEVER order from them! No wonder their reviews are 1 star. I would give them less but gave to give@ least 1. Scam artist! They have no contact phone # & don't return emails. I will dispute w/ cc company.

Date of experience: April 18, 2019
California
1 review
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Harsh
April 14, 2019

Doesn't allow customer to make mistakes on ordering (even when they try cancel within 2 minutes of ordering) --charges full price for immediately cancelled order and claims it's because order is on the way when in fact, the restaurant said that they haven't even started making it. Yet, Postmates allow themselves to be late and make mistakes on order, only at most gives you pitiful $5 refund for extremely late order. Just. WTF

Date of experience: April 14, 2019
Washington
1 review
1 helpful vote
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USED to be great
April 10, 2019

With all the competition of food delivery in place I am shocked Postmates is still in business. They have lost their customer service touch and now are just into making money. So I as a consumer choose to spend my dollars elsewhere. This is after asking them to rectify more than one mistake and telling me no. Shame shame.

Date of experience: April 10, 2019
Colorado
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I'm shocked that this company is still going strong. They are 100% scammers. I'm assuming that most people are just taking the hit and moving on. Nope! Not me! They charged me triple the amount of my purchase. When I contacted them they said it was a "temp hold" and it would be refunded. It's already been a week Annnd nothing. I've contacted my bank and they will be disputing the charge. I've read that postmates tries to explain away their shady dealings by saying the final cost is an "estimation". Bull$#*!. No legit company bases their business off of guesstimations and at their discretion are able to take the amount of money they see fit. That's fraud and illegal as $#*!. I'm not the one postmates. Not the one.

Date of experience: April 3, 2019
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Please read the reply I left for Matt. Please everyone this company is a fraud. Use something else if it's available in your city. If not please drive like 5 minutes or whatever it is rather than using Postmates. I know that food delivery is a leisure for you customers but please keep in mind what I said..

Date of experience: March 27, 2019