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Removal People - Should/Would you tip them?
smallholdingsister
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As it says, moving on Friday but they are mostly packing Wednesday.
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Funny in places. Anti Semitic in places though.
You must have watched it even more times than me!0 -
Call me tight but no! This craze for tipping when you're already paying good money for a service drives me nuts0
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Remember to tip your solicitor, estate agent and mortgage broker too.0
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Not a chuffing chance! Well, not the sharks who moved my stuff last time anyway. They charged me a fortune as it was!0
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No it's their job like any other e.g. a cashier in a supermarket/shop.
Like someone else said, solicitor too?0 -
Did you watch the clip?!0
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Yes, I have done and would again. Lots of tea/coffee/biscuits/cake/sausage rolls etc and a good tip. They work bloody hard, and considering how much a removal firm costs in the grand scheme of moving house expenditure I think they are a bargain and well worth tipping.0
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We tipped, just £20 between 3 of them - BUT it's a family business and they had helped up out the day before moving.
I hired a van to move the shed contents but not all the shed panels fitted in.
Called the removal company and asked if they had a larger van and if they could take the panels and leave them at the father in laws house (where contents of shed were) - within 30 minutes of calling they were at the house - took the two panels away (the smaller ones were already in the hire van).
We got to my FIL's house and found that, they removal company had drove by our new house, spoke to the vendors and left the shed panels in the back garden to save double handling.
All for free. So they made a 20 mile round trip to our house, to our new house and back the their base - 2 men, for free.
That deserved a tip!
Been a small family service though, I suppose you get that added personal touch.0 -
If they do a good job I'd tip them. Just enough for a beer; mind you that's about £50 down here!0
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