Why are Las Vegas cabbies so weird about tips?

[shaniac]

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Shaniac,

You're already paying her $80, the tip is whatever you wish to pay over that. I'm assuming your response, especially given your other responses in this thread, mean that you're tipping $30 or so?

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It totally depends on what they do for me...and I really haven't had too many experiences in strip clubs, but the ones that involved 4 dances usually came with some extra service (thus demanding a bigger % tip). In Amsterdam one time, this super-hot prostitute gave me an uncharacteristically good lay and genuinely good time, and when I went to tip her 50-gilders afterwards, I only had 100-notes, and she just sort of coyly looked at me and said, "How about the whole hundred?" She seemed so sweet and reasonable, I didn't think twice!

Everyone,

What I think is most fascinating about this thread and about tip-nitiness in general is that people are often willing to blow their budget for extravagant items or experiences (like nice meals and expensive bars, nice clothes, being in a place like Vegas to begin with), yet form intricate philosophies over tipping, designed to clip costs at $1-5 per adventure. No compute.

Also, Vegas is a place designed to loosen you up with money. Most of the people using Vegas cabs and services are there for 3 days a year, or whatever, and they come to splurge. They don't think twice about the extra 10% they're tipping the driver they would have saved back home. So, cabbies don't care as much about offending full-time professional gamblers, who spend 3-12 mos. in Vegas, with aggressive tip-acquiring procedures. Also, we're talking about a town where doorman/bouncers routinely get tipped hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dollars just for taking customers to their table at nightclubs. I don't mind if the cabbies make an extra buck or four off me.