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Etiquette: Tipping appliance deliverers?

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Sorry for the asinine topic, but they're probably arriving soon (assuming they're on time) and I want to be ready to not be an asshole.

I live on a 3rd floor condo and I'm getting a washer and dryer delivered. I assume there will be 2 people since I can't see one guy doing it. How much should I tip? All I've got are 3 $5 bills and 2 $50 bills. Should I give the 2 of 'em $50?
 
Soybean said:
Sorry for the asinine topic, but they're probably arriving soon (assuming they're on time) and I want to be ready to not be an asshole.

I live on a 3rd floor condo and I'm getting a washer and dryer delivered. I assume there will be 2 people since I can't see one guy doing it. How much should I tip? All I've got are 3 $5 bills and 2 $50 bills. Should I give the 2 of 'em $50?
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Those guys are making like 12 bucks an hour with benefits. So it's not nearly as bad as a waiter at a restaurant or something. Did you pay a delivery fee?

http://www.findalink.net/tippingetiquette.php

Furniture or appliance deliveries - $5-10 per person. If the delivery is huge, then $20 per person
 
Delivery is $60 (though I'll get it back via mail-in rebate to Sears). I wish I could give 'em $10 apiece. Need another $5 bill, though. Too risky to leave since they could show up soon.

Thanks, though! I did find resources online, but was just wondering what people actually did.
 
Scrow said:
man, i don't ever want to go to america :P

is there anyone you people don't tip?
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It's the most confusing system ever. well, perhaps adding tax at the counter is slightly worse, but everywhere you go with money leaves you with the sensation that you just got raped out of some cash.
 
A few weeks ago, my girlfriend and I ordered Thai food. We decided to save a few bucks by picking it up ourselves, so we drive over. I give her my credit card, and she goes in and pays and brings it out. I look at the receipt... and she gave them a huge tip.

WHO ON EARTH TIPS SOMEONE WHEN YOU PICK IT UP YOURSELF?!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
I wish tipping would be treated as a thank you for really good service rather than a thing you always do. Why should you give a tip to someone who is just doing their job if they don't do it well? I got a tip last night at my coffee shop from a woman because she wanted a large sandwich and we had no large bread, so I went out back and asked the supervisor if i could make her 2 sandwiches and just charge her for one. She gave me the tip and said "thanks for the extra effort." That's what a real tip is, a thanks for the extra effort.

I was at a bar and ordered a beer. 4.25. The bartender hands it to me, I give him a 5. He takes it and starts talking to someone else. I stare at him until he finally gives me my change. Assuming that someone is giving you a tip is very rude. Of course, this same asshat refused a 70 cent tip from my friend because it was in dimes "I don't take those". Ok, buddy, you're serving drunks, where did the superiority complex come from?
 
Went out to a BBQ place the other night, I ordered one of the biggest things they offer, knowing I'm gonna take some home for the next day's lunch.
Anyway, meal time ends, and waitress asks if I need a box, I say yes and then she says "Would you like some bread too?"
So I say yes. I'm poor, and free food is free food right?
"Oh, I was joking."
What? What the fuck kind of joke was that?
Tip from me - $0
 
I tipped a cashier at CheeseCake Factory in Beverly Hills 100% for doing absolutely nothing. When I looked at my credit card receipt it said the total and tip. That confused the hell out of me because nobody served me anything. But I still wrote $20 and signed the receipt. :p

Meh, I felt generous.
 
RevenantKioku said:
Went out to a BBQ place the other night, I ordered one of the biggest things they offer, knowing I'm gonna take some home for the next day's lunch.
Anyway, meal time ends, and waitress asks if I need a box, I say yes and then she says "Would you like some bread too?"
So I say yes. I'm poor, and free food is free food right?
"Oh, I was joking."
What? What the fuck kind of joke was that?
Tip from me - $0
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Should have tipped a penny, RK.
 
Matlock said:
Should have tipped a penny, RK.
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I paid with my card, for a group, so they kept yelling at me about the tip. She got about $5 in tip from what they left ($0.12 more from me actually, I like to round up my bills) But if it was a cash payment from me only, it would have been done.
 
Tipping sucks

The one person I look at and think "shit... he should get tipped" is a guy who pumps gas in the winter... and theyre about the only people who DONT get tips.
 
RevenantKioku said:
I paid with my card, for a group, so they kept yelling at me about the tip.
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Why'd you make such a big deal about the tip? Write it down, put your hand over the folder, and hand it to the waitress when she comes by.
 
I had a large TV delivered this weekend. Since I paid $50 for the delivery I really didn't feel I needed to tip on top of that. The store's not that far from my house. Plus they woke me up at 6:45 a.m. to ask if they could come and deliver it earlier than the scheduled time... interrupting my sleep = no tip.
 
GDJustin said:
I bartend on the weekends and I need those tips. (most of) you guys are pricks.
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Sorry, but it's your employer who is stiffing you, they make the drinks expensive enough that they should be able to pay you properly.
 
You're a straight up asshole if you don't tip your waitress. They only make $4-5 an hour and rely on their tips to get them by. I make sure to always tip at least 30%.
 
I'm pretty sure waitstaff minimum wage is still 2.13 an hour. Barstaff is always a dollar or so more I think.
 
I love to tip. Whats the big deal people need to learn to spread it around. When I was young a poor I lived off them or was smart enough to hook up with a girl that did. Now I tip everybody. It's just karma and what goes around comes around. The only time I dont personally tip is if I pick a cheque for a group. Then I make the group tip people tend to be more generous when there gettign a free meal and it leads to a big tip for the person serving.

P.S. Guys that only tip girls are the worst. It's just so dumb.
 
AlphaSnake said:
You're a straight up asshole if you don't tip your waitress. They only make $4-5 an hour and rely on their tips to get them by. I make sure to always tip at least 30%.
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And after all the tips they get theyre probably making well over 20. I highly doubt a waitress at the bar is declaring those tips either.

I will not feel sorry for waitresses.
 
When you pay several hundred dollars for an appliance, and then for delivery on top of that (or more for the appliance alone just to get "free" delivery), I have a hard time thinking it's necessary to tip the delivery guys. They're not pizza guys who're getting paid minimum wage or a buck a trip. Add to that the fact that 50% of the time they're surly, and it seals the deal for me.

The last big item I got was a couch. They sent one guy, so I had to help unload it. Yeah. I'm sorry, but if I'm doing half the heavy lifting, they should be tipping me :)

As far as being compelled to tip every waiter or waitress, I think it's stupid. I'm generally a good tipper -- more generous than a lot of the people I know... But if the service is bad, the waiter/waitress isn't going to get a good tip from me. If it sucks, no tip at all.

I'm generally not picky and forgiving about service issues, so if the service is bad enough that I don't want to give a decent tip, or no tip at all, chances are it's agitated me to the point where it's affected my enjoyment of my meal.
 
I wouldn't. It'd be different if delivery were free and if they didn't charge me to go up stairs and such. I'll offer them a drink or whatever, but I'm not tipping delivery folks unless I didn't pay for delivery.
 
GDJustin said:
I bartend on the weekends and I need those tips. (most of) you guys are pricks.
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Please forgive me for my lack of enthusiasm in paying you to do your job. Drinks at bars are already overpriced enough.....what did you do that was so special that I should pay for more than my drink and the occasional tip to keep you from ignoring me?

Tipping in this country is simply fucked up. It's not like this anywhere else in the world, and foreigners are always blown away when they come here and see how rampant this unnecessary and inconsistent tipping is. If you're doing a job where you're serving customers and you go beyond what you're obligated to do for me, then you deserve extra money for that extra work. But if you're just working a job like everybody else in the country does and your boss is stiffing you with sub-minimum-wage pay, then either take it up with him or find another job. Don't expect me to compensate for your shitty wages; I'm going to pay the product or service I came for.


Just to be clear, I understand that tipping is sometimes appropriate and deserved. But that doesn't mean the whole tipping system in this country is totally out of whack, though.
 
AlphaSnake said:
You're a straight up asshole if you don't tip your waitress. They only make $4-5 an hour and rely on their tips to get them by. I make sure to always tip at least 30%.
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Learn to fucking type, alright?
 
Phoenix said:
I wouldn't. It'd be different if delivery were free and if they didn't charge me to go up stairs and such. I'll offer them a drink or whatever, but I'm not tipping delivery folks unless I didn't pay for delivery.
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Same here. I generally only tip waiters/waitresses and food delivery people.
 
The only people off the top of my head you're expected to tip are waiters, bartenders, bellhops/baggage handlers and food delivery people. You want to give the guys who deliver your couch 5 or 10 bucks each, that's nice. But you don't have to. Nobody says you do. The socio-economic structure isn't going to collapse if you don't. However, if you don't tip waiters/waitresses, food deliverers or baggage people (or bartenders depending on the situation), you're a cheap prick, ain't no other way around it.

I generally tip people (outside of the food/beverage/baggage employees) if I think they did a good job. If they had to deliver something up or down a flight (or more) of stairs, I think that's worth a tip. If someone came and fixed something like an air conditioner or a water heater and gave me a long explaination on what he did and what's wrong, worked on it for a long time, etc., I think that's worth a tip. This isn't such a mysterious concept. If you think someone did a good job for you, you might want to feel like tipping them.

Tipping also works out in your favor a lot. I had a new hot water heater installed about a month ago in my old house I'm getting ready to sell. I come back to the house a week later and there's standing water all over the floor. I called the company who installed the heater, asked for the guy who installed it to come back out, he did, sees the problem is not the water heater he installed but the a/c unit next to it was leaking condensation, tells me how to fix it and says, "I'm supposed to charge you a service fee of $49.99 just to come out here, but since you took care of me last time, I'll just tell 'em it was the water heater leaking and I fixed it for free." Similar situations have happened to me probably 10 times in my life.

Also, as anyone who's worked in one of the food, beverage or baggage jobs can attest, the worst tippers are usually wealthy, spoiled cunts who've never held a job like the one they're tipping you poorly for.
 
I just had a stove delivered from Sears and I had this same question. I signed off on the delivery and the second I was done the guy started to leave. So I got my answer, no tip.
 
What about pizza places that charge $3 for delivery? should i tip the deliverer? making it over $5 just to have a $18 pizza delivered? most pizza places have free delivery over $15, this place it doesn't matter how much you order there is always a $3 delivery charge.

BTW I'm in Canada and I'm talking about Pizza 73. They just raised their delivery prices this week from $2.50 to $3.

I'm a student and I don't have $5 to tip just for a pizza, nor do i have a car to pick it up...
 
Scyn said:
What about pizza places that charge $3 for delivery? should i tip the deliverer?
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No, I wouldn't. But make sure you tell him, "I'm not tipping because there's a $3 delivery charge."
 
Off-topicish

If I'm getting food delivered, what's the going rate for tipping percentage wise?

Seriously, I can't remember the last time I've had food delivered.
 
GDJustin said:
I bartend on the weekends and I need those tips. (most of) you guys are pricks.
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Boo hoo. Get a job where your EMPLOYER pays you the amount you think you deserve.

For the record, I tip bartenders, but I do it at the end of my night, before I leave. I'm not going to tip up front (as some do) to BUY good service. Give me good service on your own though, and you'll get a good tip in appreciation.
 
goodcow said:
OMG, LET'S TIP SOMEBODY TO DO THEIR JOB, WHO WE'LL NEVER SEE AGAIN!!!!
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I've had to work doing this and it's a bitch.

Soybean, 15 bucks for 2 people + COLD WATER is plenty. I know this is probably a bit late but yeah, especially a 3rd floor delivery. Probably have some really narrow stairways...it is a real bitch at times. 15 bucks may be a bit too much actually, but DEFINATELY COLD WATER.
 
It's entirely up to you. I worked for a furniture company before and it was against company policy to accept tips, but some people, who were even aware of the policy, insisted you have a little something every now and then.
 
AlphaSnake said:
the fuck are you talking about?
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I don't tip because society says I have to. All right, if someone deserves a tip, if they really put forth an effort, I'll give them something a little something extra. But this tipping automatically, it's for the birds. As far as I'm concerned, they're just doing their job.

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Fuckin' A, Bubba.
 
demon said:
Sorry, but it's your employer who is stiffing you, they make the drinks expensive enough that they should be able to pay you properly.

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Please forgive me for my lack of enthusiasm in paying you to do your job. Drinks at bars are already overpriced enough.....what did you do that was so special that I should pay for more than my drink and the occasional tip to keep you from ignoring me?

Tipping in this country is simply fucked up. It's not like this anywhere else in the world, and foreigners are always blown away when they come here and see how rampant this unnecessary and inconsistent tipping is. If you're doing a job where you're serving customers and you go beyond what you're obligated to do for me, then you deserve extra money for that extra work. But if you're just working a job like everybody else in the country does and your boss is stiffing you with sub-minimum-wage pay, then either take it up with him or find another job. Don't expect me to compensate for your shitty wages; I'm going to pay the product or service I came for.


Just to be clear, I understand that tipping is sometimes appropriate and deserved. But that doesn't mean the whole tipping system in this country is totally out of whack, though.

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Boo hoo. Get a job where your EMPLOYER pays you the amount you think you deserve.
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Like I said, (most of) you guys are pricks. I live in Iowa, and I work at a country western ballroom that has live music every weekend (when I work). The people that come in are REAL working men. They work at landscaping companies, or construction jobs, etc. Some are actually on the national rodeo circuit.

These guys are NOT making big dollars, or really any dollars. Yet I get far far better tips there than the guys bartending at the trendy clubs downtown. These guys don't really have a lot of extra money, and they're paying $6 cover then tipping all night long regardless of whether I "hook them up" with their drinks or not, because they *aren't* pricks. They're down to earth, good people who are willing to part with the 50 cents they get back from their $2.50 beer bottles because they aren't pompous assholes who debate over whether they're going to keep that change out of some silly principal.

It's carried over to ME, and I'm more than willing to tip well in any situation that calls for it, and some that most likely don't, because the couple ones in my wallet just aren't that important to me, regardless of whether the guy on the receiving end needs it more than me or not.
 
GDJustin said:
Like I said, (most of) you guys are pricks. I live in Iowa, and I work at a country western ballroom that has live music every weekend (when I work). The people that come in are REAL working men. They work at landscaping companies, or construction jobs, etc. Some are actually on the national rodeo circuit.

These guys are NOT making big dollars, or really any dollars. Yet I get far far better tips there than the guys bartending at the trendy clubs downtown. These guys don't really have a lot of extra money, and they're paying $6 cover then tipping all night long regardless of whether I "hook them up" with their drinks or not, because they *aren't* pricks. They're down to earth, good people who are willing to part with the 50 cents they get back from their $2.50 beer bottles because they aren't pompous assholes who debate over whether they're going to keep that change out of some silly principal.

It's carried over to ME, and I'm more than willing to tip well in any situation that calls for it, and some that most likely don't, because the couple ones in my wallet just aren't that important to me, regardless of whether the guy on the receiving end needs it more than me or not.
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So if you don't give away your money that makes your a prick?

:rollmyfuckingeyesrightoutofmyhead
 
I like it better in europe, 15% of the food/drink price goes to the server, and I get at least as good of service there as here. If service is exemplary, throw them an extra euro and they are happy as hell.
 
beermonkey@tehbias said:
I like it better in europe, 15% of the food/drink price goes to the server, and I get at least as good of service there as here. If service is exemplary, throw them an extra euro and they are happy as hell.
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Whenever I go to Europe I'm too used to tipping to not. It's kinda funny to see the reaction. One time I was in Istanbul and took a taxi around (which are insanely cheap for the record), for a 20 minute taxi ride it cost about 9 million lira (like 9 bucks)... I gave him a 10 and I step out of the taxi, and he says I forgot my change. I was kinda stunned for a second cause I'm so used to the way it is over here. Seemed happy when I said to keep it. No big deal to me but it's weird to see how cultures differenciate.
 
I work for sears, not that department though. But yes, they are allowed to accept tips. ^_^ Yeah they normally just start walking away once the works done, they're supposed to. But the nice customers go "hold on a minute" or something like that and gives them a tip ranging from $3+.
 
Wow, didn't expect to see this thread up here.

Anyway, I waaaaaaaaaaay overtipped. I thought $15 for the two of them was too little, and all I had otherwise was a $50 bill, plus I figure I'm pretty well off and delivery was free (after rebate). But still, should've followed Miguel's tip on tipping and done the $15. I offered the water but they didn't accept. Thing is, getting stuff up those stairs is a nightmare. Each level is broken into two flights of stairs, and getting something around each landing is tough. Or I'm just a sucker who feels sorry for people way too much.

I also got a water heater. I didn't tip the water heater installer guy. There was a $30 charge for installations on the second floor or above, so I figured that covered it. Usually I'd be afraid that the person doing the installation wouldn't get that fee, but this guy owned the company. However, Valis' water heater story is kinda compelling. Maybe I should've thrown some money his way. How much did you tip your plumber, Valis?
 
Phoenix said:
I wouldn't. It'd be different if delivery were free and if they didn't charge me to go up stairs and such. I'll offer them a drink or whatever, but I'm not tipping delivery folks unless I didn't pay for delivery.
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I agree with Phoenix.


I did hire some movers to move stuff from my apartment to a new house last year.

I did slip them both a twenty. The move was only like 200 bucks and they worked pretty hard.


Only time I have tipped in a delivery type situation (that I have paid for).


In a restaurant, I will go 15%.

If its excellent service (or a cute girl ;) ) I may go as much as 25%.

On the flip side, I have actually walked out of places with a zero tip. I have had some shitty service and they do not rate a dime. Maybe a buck.
 
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