 It's DDK and I'm back like I never left cause I'm cooking up content like a chef. Shooting videos like I've never, curry. So here I'm subscribed cause it's time for us to start. If you are part of the crew, you already know what to do, baby. If you're not and you would like to be, make sure you smash the subscribe button, give me a thumbs up and throw them C's up in the comment section, baby. Now let's get right into it. I'm going to tell you guys how I use the gear gaps to buy a Sprinter van. And for those of you who don't know what kind of Sprinter van I have, I have a 2022 Mercedes Sprinter van 2500 with the high roof. I'm going to give you guys the whole story of how it all happened. Now this all started October 24th of 2021. On October 24th, I did my first ever DoorDash order. That's the first order we ever did. Now a lot of people always ask, what does DDK stand for? DDK stands for DoorDash King. So I named myself the DoorDash King after I did my first order from DoorDash. And here's the proof. It's DDK, and I'm here with my first video. DDK stands for DoorDash King. I'm about to take over. I'm trying to tell you right now, I'm going to show you guys things are possible. I know a lot of you guys have a lot of excuses about why you can't make them money. You got excuses about this, you got excuses about that, all this, all that. If you have a current license, I'm letting you know right now, you can do DoorDash. I know some people may frown upon it, some people may look at it a certain way, but I'm going to watch, watch. Just watch and see, I'm going to make it cool. So that's when it all started, baby. That's when we began the journey of doing the gig apps. We initially first started off doing DoorDash. That's the only app that we did, that's the only app that we had. I had DoorDash on my phone, my business partner had DoorDash on her phone. So we did DoorDash, DoorDash, DoorDash. We got there getting busy. We was making some decent money then. And then, like after a while, I started to slow down a little bit. And then we was like, how about we try to add Uber Eats? So we added Uber Eats. Now we got Uber Eats and DoorDash. Getting busy on both of them. After that, we just started adding app after app after app. I'm talking about we literally right now have over 30 apps in my phone. Like I got over 30 apps in my phone right now. If you haven't watched the video about all the different apps you can use in your area, I do have a video showing you 30 apps. You might want to check that out. So, we steady getting busy, we getting busy, we getting busy. Now, let's rewind a little bit. The whole reason why we started doing DoorDash and gig economy in the first place was just like I told you guys in the video. I want to show you guys that things are possible. Now, I am a real estate agent in Wisconsin and Illinois. For those of you who don't know, I do real estate too. So, a lot of people always had excuses about they didn't have enough money, they couldn't do this, they couldn't buy no property, they can't buy no house, they can't buy no duplex, no floor break. So, my whole thing was to do these DoorDash orders and do all this gig economy stuff to save up enough money and to buy a house, to buy a property. But the market changed, so I didn't end up buying a property and we ended up getting this instead. So, let me rewind some more. So, I'm talking about we getting busy. We doing Uber E's, DoorDash, Spark, shit. I'm talking about we doing it all. I have multiple videos on all apps I've done. So, you guys want to make sure you check that out. Honestly, one of the best apps we had was Walmart Spark. When we had Spark, we was going crazy, baby. We had, I think the highest day we had like $600 or close to $600 or over $600. And that was in less than like five hours, five or six hours, we got that much money because they have like a lot of cinemas and stuff that you can get into on the Spark app. So, if you don't have the Spark app and you have a car, you have a Walmart and Sims company, you might want to check that out. So, we getting busy. I'm talking, we getting busy on all the gig apps. We saving, saving, saving, saving, saving. Guess what? The first thing that I did was I bought a Bitcoin. I had a video on me buying a Bitcoin right in front of you guys' eyes. I bought a Bitcoin for $21,000 and summed out. I'm not sure exactly how much it was. I can't remember. But it was something like that and I'm up right now, baby. Some people were saying, you should have waited. You should have, hey, if I would have waited. Sometimes, a lot of times when you try to wait too long for stuff, it just never happens because you just think it too much. So, that's one of the things I did. Then after some time, after we got kicked off Spark, we literally got kicked off of Spark because somebody called and hated on us and yeah, they called Spark, they hated on us. They said that we was doing this stuff together. They said that I was using my partner's app and she was using my app. They kicked me off first and they kicked her off. And that's pretty much what happened with the Walmart Spark then. That's why we no longer have Walmart Spark anymore. We try to sign up again, they won't let us in. So, we just see what it is. But, everything in life happens for a reason. So, some time passed after we got kicked off of Spark and I'm thinking on my head, I'm like, man, look. I'm all about elevating, trying to go to the next level. I don't like being stagnant and staying in the same phase on the same thing every day. Same thing, same thing, same thing, same thing. I always am trying to think of ways to elevate and grow and do better and better and better and better. That's how you're gonna become successful because if you steady doing the same thing over and over, you're gonna continue to get to the same results regardless of what you may think. So, I'm like, this is last year. Now, we got the Sprinter Van on December 31st, 2022. So, we're coming up on our year and we are gonna do a year review on the van. But, I'm steady thinking, thinking, thinking, man. I'm like, man, look. It's time and it's time to go to the next level. I'm tired of doing this small stuff. I'm feeling like if we get a bigger vehicle, we can get bigger orders and make more money. So, we did a lot of research. Huge amount of business partners. She did a majority of the research because me personally, I'm not really good with researching and all that stuff. I do do some research with some stuff like carry companies and different things like that. But I'm talking about intense research. Our business partner is excellent at that research stuff. So, she did a lot of research. So, we came over to the conclusion that we're gonna get the Mercedes Sprinter Van and this is the reason why we did that. We got the Sprinter Van because we looked at the Ford Transit. We looked up the Ram Pro Master and the Mercedes Sprinter Van. And the conclusion we came up with is that the Mercedes Benz, yes, it's more expensive. Yes, when you get oil changes and stuff, it's gonna cost more money and everything. But, it does seem to last longer. Like you get a better use out of it. And it holds its value lower than the other Vans from what we looked up. I could be wrong, but I'm quite sure that's what we looked at. That's what we found out, baby. So, now what are we gonna do with the van? The plan is to get more Vans. Of course, that's the plan, baby. But, I'm gonna be completely honest with you guys. I'm gonna tell you guys some pros and cons and some places where I messed up and you guys can learn from my mistakes. We got the van. I was so focused and locked in on the van. We need to get the van on December 31st, the last day of the year. We could write it off on text and we could do all this and do all that. Yes, we did get the van. But, where I messed up it was, I didn't, it took time for me to switch all of my gear gaps over to from the car to the van. So, the van literally, we first got it literally set for like a month, a month and a half, or somewhere around that area before we start getting orders. And our first order we got. We at the airport, we doing our drop off run, right? We used to have a drop off run. We used to go drop off some stuff at the airport. Boom. We sitting there in this order pop up. I see 120 or 130. It was like close to 100, it was 100. I think it was 105 dollars, 105 dollars. I'm like, what is this? So, this mind you, I just got this app, this car, Disbatch. I got the app, it's Disbatch. I didn't have any Disbatch before because we were in the car. So, I ain't nothing about this. So, boom. Got the app, that joint go off. It's in the pickup location that there's planes. It's the sun run order. Now mind you, again, this is my first time ever seeing this. So, I don't know what to expect or anything. I did say that we needed an extended van. Something like, is our van long enough, pause if our van long enough to put the stuff in. Cause I don't even, I don't even know what it was. I don't know, nothing about sun run. Never heard about sun run, nothing about it. So, I'm like, okay, forget it. We're going to set this order and then we're going to go and see tomorrow. And it was pick up at six in the morning. So, I'm like, okay, boom. So, we go there and I finally meet my guy Ken. Huge shout out to my guy Ken if you watching the video. Shout out to my guy Ken. Shout out to Dray. Shout out to everybody over there at sun run. We go over there and it's solar panels. We get our first order. I'm geeked. I'm geeked. I'm gassed up. I'm gassed up. We get our first order. We drop them off. I'm like, okay, this joint, cool. Then I'm joined to start coming in. Boom, boom. And I got another one. The next time I got one to pick up and I got one to go pick, I got one to pick up from someone. And I got one to pick up from my house and drop off to sun run. So, I'm, look, these joints start to roll in. And I started to notice that we are definitely making more money. We're making more money than when we had spark and all that stuff. So, after that, I started implementing more apps. Huge shout out to my guy Craig over there at Curry, Curry, Curry, Curry. Huge shout out to my guy Craig over there at Curry. He reached out to me on the channel and said, have you ever did a Curry order? I had no clue what Curry is. Oh, I did have a clue what Curry is. I actually signed up for Curry previous to that. And I was never accepted yet. So, I was still on the wait list. So, my guy, Craig hooked me up with the Curry app. And then I started getting busy. We started, we did a Curry order. And then we started implementing more apps. We tried GoMode, we tried Ship Driver. I mean, at this point, we're trying all apps we can to make as much money as possible. Now, the question is, what do you feel about the van? Honestly, so far it's been pretty good. I do think that it was a good investment for us. Some people may think otherwise, but teach their own. Everybody gonna feel and think how they think. I do want to tell you guys this though, about the van. I went with a brand new van. The reason why I went with a brand new van is because I don't want no problems, man. I want this joint under warranty and we even got extended warranty on the top of the regular warrants. Cause I'm not coming here to play no games. Cause if something happened, I need to be prepared. And then when this joint, when I think the extended warranty go out at 50,000 miles or whatever, we going to thin it again. Look, I'm not here to play these games. I'm not, because if something breaks, I need it to be able to be fixed. And when I got my warranty, I made sure we made sure that we got it right through Mercedes Benz of Chicago. We went right through them. We ain't go to nobody else, no third party. Now we going to write to the source because we bought it from here. So if something happened, we need to be able to bring it right back here. I do recommend that you guys get your van. And if you get the van that you want to get, make sure you have a warranty. And I've seen it as many times as you can because you never know what may happen. You want to be safe and not sorry. So definitely get your extended warranty if you can. One thing I will say though, one thing that I probably would have did different was I probably, I don't really know if I really need to high roof like that. I don't know because I had, if you could low key, if you're trying to do some summer order stuff, you possibly can low key get away with like a Savannah, GMC Savannah van, like a regular cargo van versus getting the stadium, the high roof, the tall one, all that stuff. We have had some orders where it benefited us. But for the most part, you really don't need all that. I'm just going to say the truth. You really don't need all that. Hey, it's people out there who were regular cargo van, they making the same money. It's the same money we're making with a Sprinter van. They just got a cargo van. They're making the same money, baby. And another thing is probably way easier to drive and that when the stimulus gets to blow you all across the highway, it's not going to be as bad because the roof is not as high. So that's one thing I do recommend you guys do your research on that and get advantage you can afford. Do not go out here running around, get the stuff that you don't need. You try to get the biggest and best and doing all that stuff. And if you don't have the finances to back all this stuff, you do not want to put yourself in the bind. So make sure you do your research. And I do think you can get away with a regular cargo van. I do think, I don't think you need the high roof. I think that whatever you can afford, that's what you should get. You don't have to get what everybody else get. You can get the regular cargo van, you can get your GMC Savannah, Eco Line or whatever the cargo van you may want to get. And then later on, if you feel you want to upgrade you can upgrade and go from there. You do not need the biggest and tallest and best van. What you try to do is just make as much money as possible. And for the most part, if you're not expediting and like going over the road and all that stuff, I think you can get away with a regular cargo van. That's just my opinion. Comment below and let me know what you guys think. I get a lot of questions about the van and all that stuff. So just get what you can afford and what works best for you. Another thing that I would have done different is I would have been way more prepared with switching the apps over. It did take time for me to switch everything over. But I would have been already had everything in motion because the van said we could have been making money instead of just sitting outside looking pretty. So we could have been making money. I should have switched all the apps over before. Now, we did end up finally getting commercial insurance about a couple of months ago because we were just using gig apps. We did not have commercial insurance. We had a regular insurance and we were running the gig apps and everything was going okay. So again, I told you kind of like to elevate and go to the next level. So I'm like, this time let's get this commercial insurance. I've been hearing all about these low boards and all this carrier companies, all this and all that. I'm trying to get busy. I'm trying to get some more money on top of the money we was already getting. So I'm like, okay, get the commercial insurance. As of right now, we only have one carrier company. It's honestly, was the commercial insurance beneficial? Yes and no. I mean, honestly, we have some good days and we have some bad days, just like the gig apps. So one day we might go crazy. We might get two or three loans and another day we might not. I would recommend, again, learn from our mistakes, sign up for as many carrier companies as you can. Have as many of them as you can, just all on your phone. Just like I had the apps, you need to have as many carrier companies as you can have so you can make more money. That's what we're trying to do right now. But a lot of times, some of these companies, they're not like the split is like bad, like a 60, 40 split. Like it's just not a good split to me. I'm doing all the work. You're not really doing nothing. I mean, you do have the connection though. And so I'm just, I'm just winning the pros and cons of everything right now. As far as the carrier company goes, as of right now, it's been okay. It could definitely be better because as of lately, it's been going absolutely terrible with the carrier company. So you do have to wait a good with the bag. But it's time for us to get to this bag. Guess what? We gotta order on, deliver that. If you don't like how I'm leaving, then like you could be in the back seat. Good man, good man, good man. We have an order on, deliver that. If you would like to sign up for deliver that, you can click the link in the description and make sure you sign up and use the referral code so you can get your pockets on small. I also have a video on how to sign up or deliver that. So make sure you check that out as well. The pickup location is on the border. You about to go out here and get an order. The order cost is $171.83. We're gonna drive 6.9 miles, which is 14 minutes of drive time. And we will receive a minimum payment of $28.72. Get this money. It's what we're about to do. Let's go. And just like that, we are here at on the border. Hopefully they let us get an order, baby. Let's see if they got this one ready right quick. Ski, so we can get busy and looking ugly. Looking ugly. How you doing? You think I can get an order? Yeah. All right, I appreciate it, boss. Y'all see what's going on, baby. He got us right. We've got time to get our pockets tight. We're gonna put this right here. What? We're gonna put this right there. Drop like hot. So we're gonna set the hot food right in here like this. What? And just like that, y'all see what's going on. It's time for us to go get it on. Let's go. And we are here at the drop-off. How you doing, sir? We're not supposed to sit on the stuff yet. I gotta move this. Look at that. It's gonna open. How does it stay? Ah, okay. Now we gotta step back. You don't have to throw your nose. We're gone. And just like that, and as the end of the video, I hope you guys enjoyed the content. A, I hope you guys have a great Thanksgiving with your family and friends, because tomorrow we ain't really gonna be able to get no bands, cause everything gonna be closed. So we're gonna see what happens tomorrow. I really don't know what we're gonna do about a video tomorrow. We're gonna figure it out as we go, as we always do. Y'all know my flow stick like the flu. And if you're new, make sure you subscribe and also give me eight thumbs up. And if you're a partner at Triple C's, don't forget to throw them C's up. I will see you guys on the next one. We're going, we're going, you already know I'm the DDK, and I'm on my way.