When he works for Walmart's Spark Driver delivery app, it happens a few times a week, he told Business Insider.
They traced the problem to a Spark policy giving customers up to 24 hours to reduce or take back their tips.
DoorDash's app lets customers only increase a tip or add one — lowering a tip requires calling customer service, a company spokesperson told BI.
AdvertisementDrivers can wind up making far less than they expected once the 24 hours is up, a Georgia Spark driver told BI.
A Spark driver there told BI his area had too many drivers and that tip baiting wasn't a significant problem.
Persons:
—, Dara Khosrowshahi, Spark, Yeji Jesse Lee, it's, Uber, they've, Brock Dickens, they'd, I've
Organizations:
Service, Business, Google, Walmart, Drivers, BI, Detroit
Locations:
Indiana, San Francisco, New York City, DoorDash, Carolina, Georgia, Oregon