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[GiantsLover]

If I pay for expensive seperate insurance I never tip.

Anything you value if expensive needs to have insurance so if it is ruined or stolen you get $ for that.

I always buy additional insurance whenever leaving anything expensive, or something I really love, with others to be dry cleaned, or washed and dried.

I learned my lesson when my Brother came back from Viet Nam with 2 sets of   Oriental Asian hand embroidered silk pajamas sets, and  two gorgeous silk embroidered kimono robes which were all extremely costly. 1 for our Mom and 1 for me.

Eventually they needed to be cleaned so I took everything to the dry cleaner and did not think to purchase separate insurance.

When I went in to pick everything up they said there was an accident with the  machines so they ruined everything and they trashed all of items,  

They said I was entitled to nothing since I did not purchase the separate insurance from them.

Lesson well learned at a very high cost.  Those items were very precuous to Mom and me since they were a gift from my Brother.

Now I always buy the additional insurance if I want something back without damages.

I also insured my wedding gown which was custom made by a well known designer. when I gave in to be custom cleaned and paper wrapped with acid free paper to be stored away in an acid free gown bag and insured in a cold storage facility.

[NicksmomESQ]

  I drop my comforters off at the laundrymat every so often to be washed.It’s not cheap.I never tip.

[chrystaltree]

No, you should not have tipped her.   What she did was the equivalent of dropping off your dry cleaning.  If use a laundry service that picks up and delivers my laundry and I tip the delivery person.  

[NicksmomESQ]

@GiantsLover   So sorry to hear that the cleaners ruined your sentimental items. It’s water under the bridge now but the cleaners should not have disposed of the items they ruined.They should have given them back to you so you can see the damage yourself. They got rid of the evidence.

   Also they had no right to tell you that because you didn’t purchase their insurance you had no recourse for compensation. That insurance is b.s. If they ruined your clothes they’re responsible plain & simple. They are supposed to be insured.They were passing their premium cost to customers. Because you didn’t help pay their premium they turned you away. If you would have pursued the matter via a certified claim letter, attorney letter or small claims summons you would have been compensated.

   My DH is a manager for a major insurance company.They pay these sort of claims all the time.

[reiki604]

I drop off my quilts at the laundry a few times a year. I never tip them and I tip for everything!!! LOL!

[Sooner]

I would have handed her $5.  

[libbyannE]

You did nothing wrong, but I tip service people who probably are underpaid in the first place. (Similarly, I always leave a tip for  maid in a hotel. They are woefully underpaid.) So, yes, I would have quietly slipped her a few dollars. Only you know your own budget, though.

[chrystaltree]

The purpose of a tip is not and should not ever be to supplement someone's salary.  That ridiculous, if that were the case, we'd all be tipping everyone in every store or who did any type of work, all day all the time.  We tip service workers and delivery people and person works in store or shop; is not a service worker.  Even as stretch, you can't consider someone who takes your laudry from you and gives your your receipt a service worker.  My mother always said that over tipping and tipping when a tip was not required is as classless as not tipping when one should tip.  I changed dry cleaners because the one I went to for several years had the audacity to put a tip jar on the counter.  Like I should tip them on top of paying the $30 they charged to dry clean my husband's winter overcoat. 

[RetRN]

There was no need for you to tip.

[VaBelle35]

I have been getting my suits and dresses dry cleaned for decades (for many years in downtown Washington, DC) and I have never hear or been offered insurance at the dry cleaners.