# do you tip appliance delivery guys? Need answer quick! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 13, 2014, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-tip-appliance-delivery-guys-need-answer-quick/707136 "2014-12-13T16:41:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2014, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-tip-appliance-delivery-guys-need-answer-quick/707136/21 "2014-12-15T19:04:41Z")
> [@minor7flat5](#): > > Two guys delivered my wife’s new baby grand. It will likely take only one guy to deliver my new grand baby. Don’t plan to tip. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2014, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-tip-appliance-delivery-guys-need-answer-quick/707136/22 "2014-12-15T21:15:43Z")
If you tip a pizza delivery guy why not tip other delivery people? Also I would think the tip should 20% of the value of the appliance just like you tip 20% of the pizzas prices. ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2014, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-tip-appliance-delivery-guys-need-answer-quick/707136/23 "2014-12-15T23:11:21Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > If you tip a pizza delivery guy why not tip other delivery people? Also I would think the tip should 20% of the value of the appliance just like you tip 20% of the pizzas prices. With that policy I would happily get into the piano delivery business! ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2014, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-tip-appliance-delivery-guys-need-answer-quick/707136/24 "2014-12-16T13:26:07Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > It will likely take only one guy to deliver my new grand baby. Don’t plan to tip. Will the mohel get a tip? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2014, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-tip-appliance-delivery-guys-need-answer-quick/707136/25 "2014-12-16T13:39:19Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Will the mohel get a tip? > > 😃 Assuming facts not in evidence, never said it was a male child - misogynist! 😃 back atcha! ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2014, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-tip-appliance-delivery-guys-need-answer-quick/707136/26 "2014-12-16T14:12:44Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > Assuming facts not in evidence, never said it was a male child - misogynist! 😃 back atcha! Argumentative! Beyond the scope, as well! Move for a mistrial. Or a minstrel. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-tip-appliance-delivery-guys-need-answer-quick/707136/27 "2014-12-17T14:02:17Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > It is? How do you know that? Being a hotel maid is damned hard work, too. Do they get some sort of special pay “factored in”? What nonsense. Being a pimp is hard work, too, and about as relevant as a hotel maid. Do pimps get some special pay ‘factored in’? What rudeness! ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-tip-appliance-delivery-guys-need-answer-quick/707136/28 "2014-12-17T14:04:58Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > This is a ridiculous statement. Pay is almost never calculated on the basis of how physically hard it is. In fact, physically demanding work is probably some of the lowest paid (having worked some day labor, including moving, during my student days). > > Did the $200 go to the guys who actually did the moving, or to the company? If it didn’t go to the movers themselves, this is irrelevant. > > The lesson should be to get a quote on a job in writing, not to stiff the deliverymen. The three guys moving the stuff WERE the company. They made something like $60 bucks an hour…pre-tip. The lesson is that to make assumptions about anything of which you are uninformed can end up costing you money, and thinking that just because people work hard that they make less than your model. Shows where smug self-satisfaction can lead you. Also, don’t presume that you know more than I do about my experiences. Did you learn anything? ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-tip-appliance-delivery-guys-need-answer-quick/707136/29 "2014-12-17T14:16:07Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > This is a ridiculous statement. Pay is almost never calculated on the basis of how physically hard it is. For a minute I thought you \*may \*have had a point…then I realized that you had no clue about the whole situation. No pay is never calculated on the basis of how physically hard it is-it is the entire reason for being paid at all! If it was easy nobody would be paid for it! And, BTW, WTF is this ‘probably’ shit? I think that you know that one is not so dull as to go with elusive vagaries such as this, and made a turnabout in one’s position because you deem something ‘probable’. Further I think that if you stop pontificating and actually find out what movers get paid, you would put a sock in it pretty quickly. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-tip-appliance-delivery-guys-need-answer-quick/707136.md?page=1)