Tip on $17?
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- omahadesigns
If you get a haircut that costs $17, how much do you tip? $3 too little?
- d0mino0
If you have to tip $3 on a $17 hair cut, the haircut costs $20.
- hotroddy0
Depends on hair cut. Where I live a $17 dollar hair will only get you clipped. $3 for clippers sounds reasonable.
- Fax_Benson0
I'd guess they're happy with a $3 tip because they chose to price the haircut at $17, knowing that most people will give them $20 + keep the change.
Haircuts are nearly always priced at odd amounts with a tip in mind.
- I just made that up, but it seems to to be true.Fax_Benson
- I think they wouldn't want to change it to $18, because that would mean more $2 tips.omahadesigns
- The person making the price is not going to the one getting the tip.formed
- But the person making the price might care a little about their workers getting tips.omahadesigns
- scarabin0
there are haircuts for only $17?
- Not for girls.omahadesigns
- lolset
- haha. alright thenscarabin
- detritus0
- da best - the price has gone up!SlashPeckham
- why does that place look familiar?sem
- You live in London?detritus
- set0
My place charges £10 which I always find odd.
If it was £11 I'd probably tip..
- I enjoy it there because, like me, no one is interested in making shitty small talkset
- that and they make my hair just utterly fucking fabulous, it's almost unbearable.set
- you don't tip?monospaced
- THE HORROR
MURICA!set - I was never fully clear on the tipping customs in the UKmonospaced
- Always tip good service in a restaurant. Haircuts... I always have tipped but £10 makes that awkward.set
- so now I live life on the edge, a rebel, a maverick amongst sheep.set
- fyoucher10
The shop I go to charges $35, which is about $15 more than your run of the mill haircut place around here. I always give a $10 tip. Hard to find a good barber though. I'll stick with the same barber for years, unless I move too far away. They straight razor the back of my neck, shampoo/condition the hair out, and he literally will spend 25 minutes with clippers/scissors on just my sides to make it perfect. They serve whisky, are normal people (not formal at all, my age), have sports on TV all the time, and the girls that work there are just silly hot.
- sounds good but may as well have a 15 min haircut and go to the pub with the savingsFax_Benson
- this place sounds great - makes me wish I still had hair :)timeless
- formed0
I leave more for haircuts. I care about a good one, plus they are actually putting in real effort. Getting me three drinks is not nearly as effort intensive, imho. I leave $5 on $14 haircut, up from $4 last year. :-)
Don't forget that most of these people cutting aren't the ones setting the price for the haircut, just like a bar tender isn't setting the drink prices.
- rabbit0
We dont tip in Australia - only in exceptional cases.
Wage based system here. I do prefer the tipping system of the US, provides incentive for good service and friendly staff :)
- But if it was corner joes regular barber and I liked the cut I would tip $3 yearabbit
- No, the US system sucks. Much prefer the lack of tipping in Australia. If you see a price, that's what you pay.Nathan_Adams
- both points have merit, I do think it promotes good customer service though...set
- it doesn't promote good customer service because people are too fucking chicken to not tip unless it's for a major lack of service.zarkonite
- I can't imagine not tipping in a restaurant and I wouldn't give more than 20% even if the person was amazing.omahadesigns
- monospaced0
Tip at least $5, because nobody's making much off that $17 to begin with. If anyone washes your hair, give them $5 too.
- instrmntl0
$10
- If you use the same barber, like him/her and want a good rapport.instrmntl
- or thismonospaced
- benfal990
a hot girl cut my hair. i tip her a lot.
fact
- you tip her, in and out repeatedlyset
- lol @ setsem
- Just the tip?omahadesigns
- sem0
- dorkKn1ght0
I'd tip the amount of a pint you'd buy a pal. So varies 3-7 bucks on a 18 dollar haircut.
- HijoDMaite0
My barber charges $12 for my haircut. He is excellent and I wait for his chair to clear even if I have to wait a while.
We chat about life, family, cars and politics, so we are close. I consistently tip him $3, it may seem low but at least he knows I am there every two weeks without fail. For about a year now he has been throwing in a beard trim for free. (usually costs an extra $4)
Sometimes during the Holidays I give him the whole $20. Also the week of my weeding he didn't charge me for my haircut.
I ❤ My Barber.
- isn't he supposed to do the weeding?fadein11
- *weddingHijoDMaite
- fourth0
I was going to a place that was $37 to $47 (depending on who cut it). Mostly out of convenience. I was tipping $10 which now after reading this thread seems insane.
anyway I've gone back to buying a nice set of clippers and cutting my own. aside from a few minor fuck ups here and there its easy and quite rewarding to be responsible for my own hair.