SnapCollect / Van Courier

[WarrenB]

Long story short, my current work (field based IT/tech/communications across Lancs) is drying up and may come to an end within the next few months. I've looked into going self employed but I just don't have the savings to do so. There doesn't seem to be much other work out there either, but after 20+ years in the industry I'm pretty bored of it anyway.

I've got a van that I use both for work and my daily driver so I was looking to see if there's any way it can earn me extra money. I don't do van jobs for friends and family because they tend to take the piss, but an ad for an app called 'Snap Collect' popped up on Instagram which piqued my interest.

Basically it's an Uber for courier work. Anyone used it or similar and got any feedback? Is it worth it or is it like the rest of the courier apps in that it's a lot of work for not much money?

[Tisy]

No personal; experience of that one, but you'll probably find some reviews of it on youtube if you go looking. What usually happens with these delivery apps that spring up every month is that they start off with 20 paid influencers pushing them on all the social media platforms, claiming they are earning £1000s per week. A bunch of randoms jump on board to get a slice of the action and become overnight millionaires. The first few days to a week typically have decent earnings, but then after that the pay drops to peanuts because the best-paying route you were on gets given to the latest new sign-up scrub and you are either left sat about waiting for work, and/or your jobs are so far apart that due to the travelling time you are now effectively working for £5/hr. Word gets around, everyone leaves and then a month later they relaunch under a new name and new skin with the same lofty earnings claims and everyone jumps to that one. Rinse and repeat.