Life Bought some furniture, how much do you tip the delivery guys?

KCChiefsMan · 11-11-2009, 07:22 PM

Question in the title, how much is a proper tip for a bed and a couch? They will come tomorrow. Thanks

**Rain Man** · 11-11-2009, 07:24 PM

I hate having to tip people for doing their job. My guess would be $10 if it's a straight shot and $20 if there are stairs. Give the money to the head guy and it's his problem about how to share it.

milkman · 11-11-2009, 07:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Rain Man

I hate having to tip people for doing their job. My guess would be $10 if it's a straight shot and $20 if there are stairs. Give the money to the head guy and it's his problem about how to share it.

Yet, you'll tip a pizza delivery driver.

**Bugeater** · 11-11-2009, 07:34 PM

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Originally Posted by milkman

Yet, you'll tip a pizza delivery driver.

Not everyone does, back when I did it at least 50% of the customers did not tip.

milkman · 11-11-2009, 07:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Bugeater

Not everyone does, back when I did it at least 50% of the customers did not tip.

If I were the driver, the next time they ordered, I'd piss on their pizza before I delivered it.

**Rain Man** · 11-11-2009, 07:53 PM

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Originally Posted by milkman

Yet, you'll tip a pizza delivery driver.

And I'll hate doing it.

If I was president, the first thing on my agenda would be to make tipping illegal. Tipping is the worst thing that ever happened to this country.

milkman · 11-11-2009, 07:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Rain Man

And I'll hate doing it.

If I was president, the first thing on my agenda would be to make tipping illegal. Tipping is the worst thing that ever happened to this country.

If you did that, you'd have to increase the minimum wage.

With the cost of wages increasing, the cost of food increases.

So we'd end up paying anyway.

**Donger** · 11-11-2009, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Rain Man

And I'll hate doing it.

If I was president, the first thing on my agenda would be to make tipping illegal. Tipping is the worst thing that ever happened to this country.

I disagree. In England, they decided that the tip should be just rolled into the bill regardless of service, so they created some tax to cover it. As most intelligent people predicted, for some weird reason, the quality of service got worse.

**Rain Man** · 11-11-2009, 08:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Donger

I disagree. In England, they decided that the tip should be just rolled into the bill regardless of service, so they created some tax to cover it. As most intelligent people predicted, for some weird reason, the quality of service got worse.

Okay, okay, it's anti-capitalistic on the surface. After meeting with my policy advisors, I have changed my position so that instead of making tips illegal, all tips will be anonymously made to a person via the web. That way, you can tip as much or little as you like without fear of being labeled a cheapskate if you thought the service stank. Right now, the challenge is that any tip below 20 percent means that you can never visit the establishment again without fear of worse service or even reprisal. Because of tipping, I will just tip 20 percent across the board and then not go back to restaurants where I got bad service. Therefore, the restaurant owner gets punished and the server just gets a communistic 20 percent that is fueled by societal pressure.

wild1 · 11-11-2009, 08:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Donger

I disagree. In England, they decided that the tip should be just rolled into the bill regardless of service, so they created some tax to cover it. As most intelligent people predicted, for some weird reason, the quality of service got worse.

This is the truth. The service there is uniformly poor.

Deberg_1990 · 11-11-2009, 07:25 PM

Nothing. Ive never tipped a furniture delivery guy.

**bevischief** · 11-11-2009, 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

Nothing. Ive never tipped a furniture delivery guy.

This.

Especially this after I lost a couch by those a##clowns, they pick it up fix it on warranty and have record of picking it up but no idea where they placed it. Got $700 in credit after the wife was done with the them. (The couch was only worth $300)

KCChiefsMan · 11-11-2009, 07:46 PM

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This.

Especially this after I lost a couch by those a##clowns, they pick it up fix it on warranty and have record of picking it up but no idea where they placed it. Got $700 in credit after the wife was done with the them. (The couch was only worth $300)

What am I missing here? You lost your couch and then got $700 for a $300 couch? That doesn't sound bad to me

**Mr. Flopnuts** · 11-11-2009, 07:25 PM

Yeah, I'd tip $10 if it's level and $20 if they need to climb stairs.

**Bugeater** · 11-11-2009, 07:26 PM

Unless they somehow went above and beyond their normal duties I wouldn't tip them anything.

11-11-2009, 07:22 PM	Topic Starter
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Deberg_1990 In Search of a Life Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: San Antonio Tx. Casino cash: $254454	Nothing. Ive never tipped a furniture delivery guy.
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