“There are doctors, doctors, lawyers and alumni here.. everyone who works accounts leased. There is no other choice.”
He is one of the many Venezuelan and Colombian distributors who lease an account from Glovo. “I get 70% and pay 30. If I earn 700 Euros a month, I keep 450 Euros, the rest is in the account,” he explains.
He claims that because they are so numerous, they are in fact the majority. “Ask any group riders Almost everyone you see in the city will tell you that they have a rental account.the strange thing is that someone is working on his account”, explains Mario, a fictitious name at the request of the interviewer, because like everyone else he has no papers in Spain.
Account vendors exploit this vulnerability. The message “I have three licenses in these three applications for rent” is a message that can be read in Telegram groups and even on internet advertising pages. Riders assure that the announcement does not take long, dozens of calls within a few hours.
If not, what works is word of mouth. “One day I came and went to the riders corner of Colón, asked if they knew anyone who had rented accounts, and they told me soon after,” Mario explains. Then you talk to the owner of the account, stay in payment mode and get to work.
Mario says the job is “enslaving”. This 450 Euro was earned “I work twelve hours a day, I get here at 10 am and I don’t come home until 11 at night.and. That’s it from Monday to Sunday, but we don’t have any else.” That 450 Euro is literally enough for the most basic things; “If you spend 250 Euros on a room, you spend the rest on pure food and supplies. , it does not work. plus money,” he says.
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sees it as something temporary, while the papers are being processed. He’s working on it, but immigration is working so slowly that he’s been waiting ten months for his asylum application to be processed. “It’s past time to request a work permit in Spain because they didn’t give me the paperwork, but I’m pretty sure I have them and can process it again,” he says. Cycling, meanwhile, helps her resist. This is temporary.
He even confirms that they want to hire him in many jobs, especially in hotel management, “but it’s impossible if you don’t have papers, very frustrating“, the account. So the remaining options are few and far between, except renting an account, working in the fields, or being black at the construction site. You have to eat something and “lease an account is the quickest and easiest.”
Although it’s less and less temporary, because Mario has been there for ten months and knows riders who have survived that way for several years. Fortunately”no serious accident“, account. But there are little ones practically every night, according to Glovo rider Pepe Forés. “But of course they are silent because no one condemns anything.”
Forés criticizes that “even though many people say they’re doing this to help the newcomer, and they’re actually doing it because it gives them income, you’re also making a profit because they have several accounts.” It even allows fraud to multiply very easily in rental accounts.
“Recently an Argentine boy in Valencia they stole the 1,000 euros he earned on the application. The account holder saw them, restricted his access, cut ties with him and couldn’t find him. And the boy has nothing left,” she says. ,” says Forés.
Even reached Trapiceo level sell account by changing seller’s photo, or even “buying watches” from people who know how to modify the app (something Glovo fixed and can no longer be done). Also negotiating fixed monthly prices instead of percentages. “There are people with old accounts – the app prioritizes the most loyal riders and gives them more orders – they get 400 euros per month from the delivery man., distribute or do not distribute. Every month,” he explains.
Glovo lowered rates
On top of all that, we should add that Glovo has recently cut rates for its distributors, but it’s still not the least paying company. “They pay us at least 2.60 for an order of 3 or 4 kilometers. Last Friday I ordered 32 and initially only got 80 euros when I got 120.“Mario complains. According to the drivers themselves, Uber sets the minimum fare at 2.10 euros. Also, neither the weight nor the volume of the order is taken into account, they just add the distance from point A to point b.
It is very easy to rent an account as the apps have almost no control. joyfulBoth Uber and Glovo only ask you for a photo of the delivery man’s face when initiating the delivery. work. In the app, the account holder takes a photo with his phone, and when he’s ready, the real delivery guy logs into the account with his phone and starts working.
Therefore, Forés, “if Glovo or uber I wish these rental accounts didn’t exist. They have the tools to do it, but they don’t want to do it.” He also says, “there are so many people on hire right now that if that happens, Valencia will be left without a rider to distribute.”
No serious accident
Fortunately, riders say there have been no serious accidents. “Look at the case of Pujan (a rider who died after being crushed and had a rental account), Glovo had no responsibility.In the end, a year and a half fell to the man who leased the account in his name. It’s true that it’s fast money, but I don’t think people are aware of the risks,” he adds.
Glovo itself recently sent a message to their distributors inviting them to rent accounts; this is well done, actually something legal. “For Glovo, every driver is autonomous, so every distributor is a company.. And as a company, I can contract for someone to work for me. In fact, it is legal if it is done that way.”
Behind all this, for Forés, the company has a pulse State. “He wants to show that we’re more and more autonomous and less industrious. It’s legal to hire someone, but I don’t think anyone does it because it doesn’t work, but it’s kind of pressure,” he says.
In conclusion, “If Glovo and Uber didn’t trash these rental accounts, it’s just because they don’t want to make their drivers’ authentication more secure, but I think They know the problem they have and they have a very high percentage of such accounts”.