Still an ugly pain in the ass for the person who wanted to exchange currency for goods and/or services.

I do find it amusing that Doordash itself seems so blaise about this misuse of their services. Like, what an amazing racket. Get paid by one of the biggest retailers in the country to not-pay drivers so they can not-deliver expensive hardware.

Also file a police report and let the police identify the thief from video. Then they will get to deal with doordash.

Even if there was a signature required, the driver could just forge it.

Still, you should hassle the corpos, but don’t forget that the driver is the real criminal here.

Honestly, I put 50% blame on the thief, 50% blame on Bestbuy. Theft from your fellow working class people is fucked up, but BestBuy using shady delivery services is also unacceptable.

No, it is on Best Buy. They could’ve shipped it via a known carrier but elected to go a cheaper route to save money. One bad egg doesn’t work when you’re a large company. Raise the price five dollars or eat the shipping costs and use UPS.

Tbf, in-store is probably fine, just don't do Online buying and delivery unless you have confirmation that they switched back to normal UPS or Fedex or something.

Edit: Amazon also uses independent contractors called Amazon Flex, so if you ever want to buy expensive stuff, you should turn on the OTP verification option.

Ya, do this! Dont wait a week. Call or March in and demand a refund or you'll be placing a chrageback. Speak to a manger

Ironically, I never had a "porch pirate", my neighborhood is pretty chill with that, its not even a rich neighborhood, everyone here is working class. The driver, however, picked up the order from a warehouse like 2 hours away, so I'm assuming he's not from my city. I had more drivers themselves stealing shit than just random people walking. My neighbor leaves like 5 packages on their doorsteps and didn't come home til like 2 days later (idk where they went tbh, I don't really talk to them), the packages were still there. They have packages on their doorsteps like few hours at a time every week, never seen anyone steal it. Maybe because its within sight of my cameras? But like, that didn't deter that guy that stole my stuff earlier, and judging from the news, thiefs don't seem to care if there's a camera, they steal it anyways I guess my neighbood is just that good with not touching other people's stuff?

Doesn't Apple at least make you sign for it?

Oh wait actually nvm, if someone want to steal it, they could just forge the signature. Like: Why don't these corpos just use a PIN system, god damn it? (rhetorical question, they probably don't care)

Idk what's up with these gig apps, I've literally never had UPS employee or Fedex employee or anyone working in the Post Office steal, its only these gig apps that have this happen.

UPS or USPS has to pay for health insurance, retirement plans, vehicle maintenance, gas, all kinds of stuff.

With Lyft the driver is responsible for everything, and since there’s lots of people with cars, they can just churn through them. We’re also talking local delivery here not cross country shipping.

For anything but same day? It isn't

For a same day delivery? It is the cheapest courier service out there since the gig economy is all about pushing every expense onto the workers.

For local deliveries you're paying for 15 minutes of somebody's time and a non-commercial vehicle.

It's only one person, it doesn't have to be warehoused, stored, scanned, checked, and that one person and their vehicle are both WAY under paid.

With a professional shipping service you need a fractional amount of time of a professional driver, a large corporate truck, a local brick and mortar ship center, staff there, Warehouse equipment, and because it has to change hands several times, it needs to be going pretty quickly. Then another driver and another truck.

Given that this is a laptop we're talking about, OP is definitely over selling it. Bring a backpack, unpack the laptop box into your backpack (assuming the box is too big to fit in the backpack itself). Something bigger like a TV would be more problematic.

The main worry is that being seen with new-in-box fancy electronics makes you look like "guy with money". It's not so much that someone's gonna steal your TV on the subway, but if you can afford a new TV your wallet probably has good stuff in it. Then it's just a question of "how bad is the crime actually on this commute?". Most places it'd be fine but some rough parts of some cities I'd be worried.