Tipping Motorcycle Shipper

[ZOSO]

I am receiving delivery of a bike next week from a commercial motorcycle shipper and (assuming the bike is unharmed) I would like to tip the driver.
Any suggestions on what a reasonable/borderline generous without being stupid tip would be? (1200 mile trip if it matters).
Thanks in advance!

[zooom]

how much was the shipping?...

10% maybe....

[tilt]

when i bought mine from new mexico, they said it would take a week to get it to chicago.  three weeks later it showed up, and i still payed full price for shipping.  he didnt get a extra dime out of my pocket TIP stands for to insure promptness, i dont think and extra two weeks was very prompt.

[ZOSO]

when i bought mine from new mexico, they said it would take a week to get it to chicago.  three weeks later it showed up, and i still payed full price for shipping.  he didnt get a extra dime out of my pocket TIP stands for to insure promptness, i dont think and extra two weeks was very prompt.

I can understand your situation.  
However, what prompted my post was a call from the shipper scheduling delivery, early.
I was quoted 7-10 days shipping, they got it to me in 4 days!  
Worth a tip for sure (again, assuming it's unharmed ;- )

[erichan8757]

How much do you have in mind?
I have a potential shipping from NV to NYC
it's a LONG ride.
dont have anything in mind yet.

[Buckethead]

A) How far is it being shipped?

B) What are you paying total?

I'd say somewhere in the neighborhood of 10% is reasonable without being gratuitous. (See what I did there? Gratuity/gratuitous? Oh, make the beast with two backs this, I don't have to impress you people.)

Honestly, tho, I'd say $20-50. Anything less than $20 for something like this is almost insulting.

[He Man]

maybe its a culture thing, but your already paying him to do something. why are you tipping him, unless he helps you uncrate it and hauls away the crate? if he just pulls up drops hte bike in front of your house. then i wouldnt tip, even if he was nice about it.

i generally dont tip unless he lives of the tip money, or theres something extra being done, laborwise.

[Popeye the Sailor]

maybe its a culture thing, but your already paying him to do something. why are you tipping him, unless he helps you uncrate it and hauls away the crate? if he just pulls up drops hte bike in front of your house. then i wouldnt tip, even if he was nice about it.

i generally dont tip unless he lives of the tip money, or theres something extra being done, laborwise.

They typically don't crate them-you just have a driver who rolls it on, secures it, and rolls it off to you.

Tipping the person who treated your stuff carefully to ensure it got where it was going undamaged is good practice.

If he *only* gets paid by pick ups and drop offs, he's going to be far less motivated to take care of your goods.

[He Man]

Tipping the person who treated your stuff carefully to ensure it got where it was going undamaged is good practice.

i agree with that 100%....but ZOSO isnt the shipper. hes just receiving the product.


edit: wait did ZOSO  pay and hire the guy for shipping? if so, my apologies. If hes comming from far away, $40 sounds appropriate, $20 if its  close by, like Florida to NY.

[derby]

when i bought mine from new mexico, they said it would take a week to get it to chicago.  three weeks later it showed up, and i still payed full price for shipping.  he didnt get a extra dime out of my pocket TIP stands for to insure promptness, i dont think and extra two weeks was very prompt.

http://www.snopes.com/language/acronyms/tip.asp

[junior varsity]

show 'em some boob.

[erichan8757]

I would do it.. !!!!
if that'd save me 10% of the shipping.!!! +++ ha

[He Man]

show 'em some boob.

i hope ZOSO is a hot chick.

if not then im sorry for the driver.

[junior varsity]

nothin' wrong with a quick flash o' the sweater vest!

[superjohn]

Tipping is way out of control. I don't tip anyone anymore other than wait staff and bar tenders. Once the gimps at Starbucks started putting a tip jar on the drive through window sill, I had enough.