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Do you tip people when you buy a product or service? Do you think that the price you pay is enough and therefore don't tip? How much is a good amount to tip?
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Goozik
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Never bought a product or service that I thought was worth leaving a tip. Course I'm struggling to pay 360 a month for rent so it's not leaving me much free $$$ to buy services/products.
Allthough should I have extra $$$ laying around to buy things that are worthy of a tip. Anyhting under 500$ I would say 10% would be fair amount to tip.
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I do, but only because I feel obligated to do so, because it's "what you do" for certain services. But I hate doing it. If someone gives me exceptional service, then I don't mind so much; that's what tipping should be reserved for, IMHO, not the obligatory "service fee" it's become. Still, having said that, I do tip at restaurants and hair salons, but only because society (and my husband) makes me feel guilty if I don't.
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financechoices
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Originally posted by Freelancer
I do, but only because I feel obligated to do so, because it's "what you do" for certain services. But I hate doing it. If someone gives me exceptional service, then I don't mind so much; that's what tipping should be reserved for, IMHO, not the obligatory "service fee" it's become. Still, having said that, I do tip at restaurants and hair salons, but only because society (and my husband) makes me feel guilty if I don't.
I understand that it's a bigger part of culture in America than it perhaps is in Europe and that there is a tipping culture in America for a wide range of services. Would that be true?
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quote:
Originally posted by financechoices
I understand that it's a bigger part of culture in America than it perhaps is in Europe and that there is a tipping culture in America for a wide range of services. Would that be true?
I don't know much about tipping in Europe, but it's definitely big in the U.S., and it seems that more and more services are getting added to the list of those that should include a tip. It ranges from waitresses and hairdressers to tour guides and hotel maids--even the musician, if there happens to be one playing in a restaurant lounge. This Web site has a pretty comprehensive list of tipping "etiquette" in the U.S.: http://www.findalink.net/tippingetiquette.php
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Why aren't these professions paid a proper wage to begin with?
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Sat Aug 20, 2005 1:47 pm |
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Why aren't these professions paid a proper wage to begin with?
That's my question exactly. If people stopped tipping everyone, wouldn't the workers soon simply start demanding higher wages?
Then, I guess, businesses would start saying that they can't afford to hire as many people, and jobs would be lost, blah blah, though I don't know that it would be 100% true. I don't know. It's a crappy system, but it is what it is.
Where are you from, and how does tipping work there?
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financechoices
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I'm from Britain. Here it is custom to tip waiting staff but I havn't heard of many people tipping hairdressers etc. Sometimes a gift is left at Christmas but this isn't expected.
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Sat Aug 20, 2005 2:26 pm |
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financechoices
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Tiping hairdressers isn't norm there? Semi-shocked at that. I thought it was a give in tiping service like your waitress.
I pay £50 for my haircut, if that isn't enough to pay the barber a decent wage then they're in the wrong job 
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Interesting discussion...
My wife and I "fight" over this often because I think 10-15% is a good tip when going out to a restaurant. She thinks that anything less than 20% is an insult.
What is the consensus on this?
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Mon Aug 22, 2005 12:44 pm |
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I usually just double the tax, so that's about 15% here. I think my husband does the same, though he might do a little more than that.
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Mon Aug 22, 2005 1:34 pm |
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I tip 10% if the service is satisfactory. I don't tip at all if it's un-satisfactory, plus I don't come back. I leave 15% if it's above average.
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quote:
Originally posted by financechoices
Why aren't these professions paid a proper wage to begin with?
Offer and demand.
The demand for waiter possitions is huge.
An ex-girlfriend worked on pizza hut as a line cook.
She wanted to be a waitress (she was even pretty and smiley, so she may have qualified). But the competition for the waitress job was too high and she couldn't
As a cook she was paid $9/hr. The waitress where paid $2 an hour.
But the tips more than compensated the waitress salary.
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DISCLAIMER: I was a waiter before I started my career and I made good money.
Service in most establishments is atrocious. This phenomenom is fueled by expected tips from the service person and people like my wife who tip even when the service is horrid.
For wait staff: 15% for great service (which is expected) and it only goes down from there typically.
Manicures and Pedicures: I cannot honestly believe that people tip for these services. $40 for about 45 minutes work and you want a tip? My wife insists on tipping between $5-10.
Taxi: Depends on how long he waits to start the meter and whether he tries to take the scenic route.
Do the service industry a favor and stop tipping for sub par service. If you tip for horrible service you will keep getting horrible service. If everyone stopped tipping the horrible waiter he would quit his job because he couldn't afford to live on $2/hour.
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