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3Uber Eats

Uber Eats

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3Uber Eats
1.2

4,640 reviews

Positive vs Negative
3%97%
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Timely DeliveryYes · No
Used service as aCustomer · Driver
Value for Money
1.2

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4,640 reviews
1 Gav  · I was told a delivery time when I placed my order but it arrived 30 minutes late
1 Led E.  · They take the money driver takes the food and I get nothing
1 Cam A.  · Scum of the earth. Leeching dogs. Absolute maggot leech fools
1 Joe g  · Rubbish service , Hiring idiots with 0 common sense. Always problems with my orders.
1 Richard  · Total Scam! Extra slow service! Stale or Cold food! Rip off! Nothing but a failure business!
1 Monique D.  · The orders are almost always missing items and when you complain a chatbot decide whetever you will get refunded or not. Even if you have proof.
Matthew M.
Matthew M.2 posts
 

I would give no stars but the program won't allow it. This company has ripped me off by a couple hundred dollars by not delivering items that have been paid for or delivering items that have been damaged by the driver...i have tried to recover refunds but have been ignored repeatedly...Uber eats is a scam Show details

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Sharps
Sharps34 posts
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Absolute scam—cold food and automated refund denials. Uber constantly forces drivers to take multiple orders at once, meaning your food sits in a car going the wrong way for 40 minutes while it gets ice cold. Drivers are regularly turning up with zero thermal insulation bags, leaving meals completely ruined and unsafe to eat. When you complain… Read more

about the frozen food, their automated customer service bot just locks you out and refuses a refund, keeping your money for a service they failed to deliver. You can't even dispute the charges with your bank because they threaten to ban you from the Uber rideshare app, which people actually need to get around. Avoid this platform. Use alternative apps or order directly from local restaurants instead.

Liv
LivNSW5 posts
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Three weeks, multiple support agents, and Uber Support still cannot understand a basic app issue I’ve been an Uber One member, but my experience trying to get a simple Uber Eats app issue resolved has been incredibly frustrating. Around three weeks ago, the “Time Preference” option disappeared from my Uber Eats account. This feature normally… Read more

appears under Home → Addresses and allows you to choose a future delivery time before browsing restaurants. It is important to me because I want to see which restaurants and menus are actually available at the time I need delivery.

I confirmed this was not simply a change to the app by comparing it with a family member’s account using the same current app version. Their account still has the Time Preference section. Mine does not. I provided Uber with screenshots showing both accounts side by side.

Since then, I have contacted Uber Support repeatedly and been passed between multiple support agents. I have explained the problem numerous times and asked for it to be escalated to technical support, but nobody has provided a solution.

The most frustrating part is that their support system repeatedly asks me for an Order ID, despite me explicitly explaining that THIS IS NOT AN ORDER ISSUE. The problem occurs on the Home/Addresses screen before an order is even created. I have literally told support, “I cannot provide an Order ID because this issue occurs before an order is created,” only to receive another automated response immediately asking me to provide the Order ID.

It feels almost impossible to reach someone who will actually read and understand the problem rather than send another irrelevant automated response.

I have now not placed an Uber Eats order for approximately three weeks because the missing functionality makes the service impractical for the way I use it. Meanwhile, I am paying for an Uber One membership.

I don’t expect every technical issue to be fixed instantly. What I do expect is for a company of Uber’s size to have a support process capable of recognising a technical account/app issue, escalating it to the appropriate team, and providing a meaningful response.

After multiple contacts over three weeks, I still have no explanation, no solution, and seemingly no way to get past the automated support loop.

A very disappointing support experience.

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James D.
James D.
 

They falsely advertised a buy one get one deal at applebee's, but charged full price in the end. So I canceled the order and tried to order it differently, assuming I had ordered wrong. But no that was wrong too. I have screenshots and a video of me ordering. To prove the price hike..

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ERROL B.
ERROL B.VIC
 

Yesterday delivery was so bad that we could not eat it ( Rumah Aneka) and I have written a review on their website BUT now my complaint is about your app that does not like to accept complaints- is this because you have a 97% fail rate ? Your app does not accept photos ( always some issue with the photos ) so please fix your issues with the app and we would like a refund for yesterday order as we could not eat it - it was horrible Show details

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Kinley
Kinley
 

The order was 1 and half hour late. He is not willing to hand over the food.

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Chelsea P.
Chelsea P.4 posts
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Beware! I found a long hair in my food and they refused my refund saying it wasn’t eligible. This is not the first time I’ve had food quality issues with Uber Eats. They charge you extra for a service fee but there is no service. Probably not be of the worst experiences I’ve had Show details

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MissM
MissMNSW
 

Don't Order Thru Uber Eats! Not Even Worth For 1 Star! Vote For No Star!! Extremely Unreliable!!! – When I placed the order, it was written 30 - 50 mins, that is why I've ordered thru Uber eats as I was expecting to arrive around 50 mins. Then, the delivery keep on delaying, and there's no way you could cancel the order. The HELP button doesn't work!!! and finally, it is almost 2 hours late, and the order just suddenly disappeared in the APP,… Read more

and after searching the order, it just say Delivery Failed!! Bravo!! So finally you have just wasted your 2 hours time for nothing, and they just don't care and take no responsibility for your time! What kind of service is this? Uber Eats - do you know this is not only about money? its the actual time we have been waiting!!!! How interesting is this?

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Christian
ChristianACT
 

I placed an order last night and received someone else’s order. When I went through the help desk on their app I just keep getting an automated response that my order isn’t eligible for a refund. How RIDICULOUS!!! Show details

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Toni
ToniNSW
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The store rang me saying they didn't have a item on my order they asked if I wanted anything else I said no they told me to go to the app and cancel the order which I did I spent a hour to trying to cancel the order they refused to cancel and kept hanging up on me. They let a half fullfilled unwanted order be delivered and still refuse to refund my money. This big corporations love to take your money but never want to give it back. Show details

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chevy.skidmore
chevy.skidmore
 

Terrible service, use doordash instead of wasting your time on these scammers. my food arrived and as the driver took it out of his bag it leaked everywhere and the bag had broke at the bottom, the food went all over my verandah so I took photos and sent to uber and they then refused compensation. terrible disgusting service Show details

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Maria
MariaNSW5 posts
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Chicken was undercooked. El Jannah restaurant. I’ve tried plenty of times to make a claim on Uber app and the system didn’t allow me to put photos and claim. Uber doesn’t have customer service over the phone. Only machine saying whatever. I have to throw the chicken. I will not order again from your uber eats. Just useless. Also I’ve ordered medium tabouli and never received. Completely disgusting service. Stealing from people Show details

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Jasmine Murray
Jasmine MurrayVIC6 posts
 

What a rip off!!!! Paid $81 when the food was $51 so basically paid $30 delivery for an $11 trip! Won’t be using Uber Eats again. Show details

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Stephanie
Stephanie
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It took over an hour to receive my cold food and the Wingstop is 10 min from my house. It wasn't edible bc well cold fries are nasty and the chicken was hard. They told me they could not replace my order for that reason. Im very disappointed and will not use them again. As u can see on the receipt I ordered at 317 and received my food at 435 Show details

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Shane
Shane2 posts
 

Should be called Uber Con. You pay extra to have your delivery arrive quicker only to have it take longer. They have no morals or prices. For 15 minutes it has said on the way but the driver has not moved. Big business is big nonsense. Show details

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Brendan M.
Brendan M.NSW
 

I have completely terminated my use of Uber Eats. Walking away from this platform is the only logical recourse left for Australian consumers because the baseline standard of service has fundamentally collapsed. Due to a comprehensive failure in quality control and a total absence of driver compliance enforcement, users are subjected to persistent… Read more

logistical failures. This is not a matter of petty nitpicking. In my own experience, severe delivery failures occurred an astonishing eighty percent of the time.

The operational defects are entirely predictable, items such as ice-cold food, structurally damaged items, couriers point-blank refusing to deliver to the building entrance, or dropping orders at entirely incorrect addresses.

To ensure clarity, I routinely gathered undeniable, objective proof. This included GPS screenshots tracking the courier to a completely different street, photographic evidence of the incorrect buildings where food was abandoned, and records of couriers actively ignoring immediate communication attempts.

Yet, even when presented with airtight verification, Uber Eats routinely denies reimbursement. Under the Australian Consumer Law, if a business fails to provide the service paid for, or delivers a product that is demonstrably unfit for purpose, they are legally compelled to provide a remedy. Instead of upholding these statutory obligations, Uber Eats relies on a rigid algorithmic threshold. Consumer data and public platform patterns confirm that their system utilizes an automated cap: once an account registers a specific percentage of legitimate service complaints, the algorithm automatically flags the profile and institutes a blanket denial on all subsequent claims.

The core issue here is a layer of corporate gaslighting. When the algorithm overrides human oversight, the platform treats legitimate consumers as fraudulent actors. In reality, customers only report a fraction of the actual service failures they endure. High complaint frequencies are a direct consequence of a broken operational framework and Uber's refusal to discipline couriers who engage in gross misconduct. Furthermore, Uber actively incentivizes a highly flawed multi-batch delivery model. The platform allows and encourages couriers to accept five or six separate orders from completely distinct locations simultaneously.

A significant portion of these couriers lack the professional thermal equipment necessary to maintain required temperatures. I recently observed an unmarked courier waiting inside a local kebab shop on a freezing night. While I required three layers of heavy clothing just to remain comfortable, this courier had five separate orders stacked on a counter losing heat, while waiting over five minutes for a sixth order to be packed. It is mathematically impossible for that food to arrive at its destination above room temperature.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is simply not doing enough to curb this systemic exploitation. The ACCC needs to launch a thorough, aggressive investigation into Uber Eats' hidden customer service algorithms. Regulators must legally force the platform to dismantle the interface mechanisms that automatically deny consumer refunds. Furthermore, the ACCC should mandate the return of a 24/7 telephone customer support line, ensuring consumers can contest issues directly with a human representative rather than a brick wall of automated bots.

Most importantly, the federal government should legally demand that all automatically refused refund claims in Australia along with their corresponding user-uploaded photographic and digital attachments be directly carbon-copied and funneled straight to the ACCC. Gathering this massive repository of suppressed evidence would give the watchdog undeniable proof of a corporate entity knowingly discarding real evidence of service failures.

The ACCC could then leverage this data to launch a monumental, multi-million-dollar class-action lawsuit against the company for mass breaches of statutory consumer guarantees. Until our regulators force this level of structural compliance, consumers are better served by bypassing this platform entirely and dealing directly with local businesses.

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Minder
MinderNSW8 posts
 

As an Uber Eats driver, I wish it were possible to give negative stars. The pay has become unacceptable. The average payout for a delivery is often only $4 to $12, which barely covers fuel, vehicle maintenance, insurance, and the time spent completing the trip. The promotions are also becoming increasingly misleading. Every week the requirements… Read more

seem to get harder, with drivers needing to complete more trips just to qualify for the same or even lower promotional rewards.

Delivery requests continue to get worse. Uber Eats now expects drivers to complete Coles and Woolworths grocery deliveries, often involving an entire trolley full of groceries, yet the pay is no different from picking up a single bag of food from a restaurant. There seems to be no consideration for the additional physical effort, the extra loading and unloading time, or the difficulty of delivering heavy groceries.

Apartment deliveries make the situation even worse. Many customers expect groceries to be delivered directly to their front door in high-rise buildings where there is little or no parking available. Drivers can spend significant extra time finding parking, carrying heavy bags, waiting for lifts, and navigating large apartment complexes, all without any additional compensation.

To make matters worse, when the app displays the wrong delivery location, drivers are often required to travel further than originally agreed but still receive the same payment. Contacting support frequently results in automated AI responses that fail to address the issue or provide fair compensation for the additional distance and time.

Drivers deserve fair pay that reflects the actual work involved, transparent promotions that don't continually become harder to achieve, and access to effective human support when problems arise. Without the drivers, the platform cannot operate. It's time Uber Eats recognised the value of the people who keep the service running.

Let's see if I get deactivated for speaking the truth.

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Jimmyesim
JimmyesimVIC6 posts
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Worst food delivery provider. If you pay for a meal and restaurant has staff delivering orders and mark it delivered even though you recieved nothing. Ubereats thinks it's okay to only give you partial refund. Support is horrible can't even talk to anyone. Show details

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Donna M
Donna MNSW6 posts
 

Pizzas delivered over an hour late, cold pizza not great and their delivery is expensive and slow wont use again Show details

 Follow-up  · Gave them a second chance ordered chinese, restaurant said 30 min delivery. Watched the uber driver online go in the opposite direction from the chinese restaurant at Budgewoi and then wait another thirty minutes for someone elses order at another address in San Remo finally after an hour headed to our house, food stone cold , over an hour late but the driver said "sorry" so that makes it all better ????? Cost $60.00 wasted

Adam
AdamQLD4 posts
 

Now they said they have given full refund didn't receive waste of $170 using menulog now very honest great service

 Follow-up  · Uber eats dont care abot customers food and expereince big corp ripping people off.

Fiona B
Fiona B
 

Not helpful at all Put in an order for KFC on Saturday 20/7/25 while in Sydney with Uber Eats. Delivery Person arrived gave them my pin handed me my order opened it up and not what I ordered. Called KFC and they advised that they couldn’t help… Read more

need to call Uber Eats. No number to call contacted support - help with order and was told I was not entitled to a refund as my food was delivered. Took a photo of what I received and sent the receipt of what I ordered and was still told I was not entitled to a refund. I ordered 1 Burger Feast, 6 Nuggets, Apple Juice and a 1.25l 7up total $66.90 I received 10 pieces of chicken, 4 Dinner Rolls and a Large Chips Total $ 27.00 The response I received was: Hi Fiona After looking into this order and the information provided, it was determined that the delivery matches the order. Therefore this order can’t be refunded. I then had to catch 2 taxis to go and get more food as I had my children with me and they were hungry so instead of it being $66.90 it was $130 later. I will never use uber eats again and I would hate to think how many people this has happened to.

 Follow-up  · As I said in my first review. I have not and will not used uber eats again it was a horrible experience I didn’t get what I ordered and the food was cold it was a horrible experience.and I can’t believe it has taken 12 months for you to ask me to submit another review absolutely pathetic.

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Positive reviews

jayde
jayde
 

I want to give a shout out to Sizzling Kebabs in Meadowbrook QLD. They went above and beyond to give my daughter a great birthday meal. What we got looked better than their picture advertising the food! Thanks so much guys.

Little L
Little LVIC38 posts
 

You have a driver called Yuan-Hung who is absolutely outstanding. I have had him deliver stuff to me in Berwick time and time again and he is like a rocket. Grocery shopping that will take others half an hour is done in 5 minutes. Doesn't matter the task, he does it faster than I could do myself. He should be training your other drivers, he is a star. Show details

Kay D.
Kay D.Western Australia
 

Foo Hua Chinese Resturant Wanaroo 5 STARS great fresh tasty food – Best Chinese I've had in Perth WA highly recommend tried a quite a few Chinese resturants ..this is by far the best quality..price & value we've found ..my new favourite from this day onwards

Negative reviews

Renee
Renee
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Subject: Urgent Refund Required $42.51 - Double Charge + Missing Item - No Order Number Provided To Uber Eats Support, I am writing to formally request a refund of $42.51 for my recent online order. What happened: 1. I placed an order for food with a total of approximately $52.00. This included dog food valued at $27.00. 2. The dog food ($27.00)… Read more

was missing from the delivery. The correct charge should therefore have been: $52.00 - $27.00 = $25.00. 3. Instead, I was charged $33.51 twice on my bank account - a total of $67.02. 4. I have not been provided with an order number or a receipt, despite requesting it. Your AI / customer service keeps asking me for an order number that you should have on your system. I have already sent screenshots of my bank statement showing the two charges of $33.51 twice. Breakdown of refund owed: • Double charge: $33.51 (you charged me twice, only one charge was authorised) • Extra overcharge: $33.51 charged vs $25.00 owed = $8.51 ~ $9.00 • Total refund due: $33.51 + $9.00 = $42.51 I have attached my bank statement screenshots as evidence of the double charge. I request that you process the refund of $42.51 to my original payment method within 24 hours. If this is not resolved, I will lodge a formal complaint with NSW Fair Trading / NCAT Tribunal online tomorrow. Please confirm in writing that the refund has been processed and provide me with the order number and tax invoice for my records. Regards, Renée Chand 0455434467

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thatsbabyx
thatsbabyx47 posts
 

Order came cold, promotions never work, had to wait for numerous of people to get their order before me, might aswell b Go old school and walk to the shops grab a $0.15 lolly and mess with the local krackhead. Cheaper in my eyes Show details

Emile
Emile10 posts
 

I ordered food delivery, when I placed the order the message said to meet the driver at the door, they never came and when I contacted uber they said to fetch it myself but the restaurant is closed and I have no means to fetch it, I asked for a refund and uber said no. Show details

Recent reviews

Annette
Annette13 posts
 

Today I ordered some lunch from Uber Eats. I have not ordered for a while as on the last occasion the rider stole my order. I did get a refund. However on numerous occasions I have ordered and the rider did several other deliveries prior to me with the result that food was cold. Today the rider had three stop off points on the way to pick up… Read more

my order -Uber blamed the restaurant- then picked up my order and drove to other deliveries in the opposite direction. After an hour instead of the 10 minutes journey between the restaurant and my home the food arrived cold and inedible. I complained to the robot. What a waste of time and effort. And was told that if I paid a significant extra fee I could get priority delivery. The restaurant suffers because the food arrived cold and is now in the garbage bin. I question whether a business model based on threats and intimidation can or should survive.

Diane
Diane3 posts
 

Placed an order today for Vietnamese. The driver arrived and handed me someone else's order. I called her and she said sorry I messed up the orders. I contacted uber eats with photos of a Sandwich instead of Vietnamese food and they refused to refund me ,said it was the right order. Uber eats and their drivers are basically thieves,no integrity or honesty from the company or drivers. Show details

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