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[–] 13 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I'll never understand, how it can be, that I don't get a final receipt

Like, usually, I'm saying, I'm tipping (insert whatever), then in the US I'll hand over my card and need to trust them to put in the amount I intended to

I have no way of directly verifying

And everyone was angry at my just for asking and the poor barkeeper cried....as she didn't understand, that it wasn't about her...

Felt like an ass, just questioning the system

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    I have (intentionally) left a large tip when I'm hanging out somewhere for a long time with a low ticket value. The credit card company flags it and asks me via text to confirm that the tip is correct.

    I don't know if it's strictly based on % or on deviations from your usual pattern.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    you keep the receipt, that way if you are charged wrongly you just sent the receipt to your CC and chargeback the restaurant.

    it has happened to me a few times, maybe once every 2-3 years, the server will decide I didn't tip enough and my 10 dollar tip becomes 100 dollars. often they can get away with this because a lot of folks never check their receipts.

    you are supposed to tip based on service level. it's entirely subjective.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    That's the thing, it's just so much more effort

    Doing some bar hopping at night and paying with card, it becomes completely impossible to really keep track, if the waiter just upped the tip

    Or maybe I just was to drunk and have written poorly

    It's just a shit system, without a way to directly verify on the spot

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  • [–] -2 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    i don't regard it as difficult. i've been doing it systematically for 30+ years now, ever since I was a teenager.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    It's just more work than it should be and it can be much easier

    I just don't understand, why USA-ians always defend this system

    It's much more effort and error prone

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  • [–] -4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    i don't know, why do you drink water when electrolyte drinks are superior for hydration?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    Because it's cheaper and usually not necessary to have additional electrolytes

    Edit: and I'm stopping here
    This is getting beyond stupid
    You guys defend an inferior system, because you don't want to change, because it was always that way
    At least, that I get from your answers

    I can't argue with that...

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    You could look at your banking app after it's processed.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago*

    In Europe, I usually get a receipt and can write the tip on top of that, than I'll pay everything and get the real receipt, including the tip

    Why should I even need to check into a stupid app, I don't even want to have?

    It's just so much easier to see the real paid amount at the end

    Edit: and just saying, I've been doing that all my life, doesn't make it better
    "That's how we've always done it" is the thing that stands against progress

    If a system is better, than it's better - and we can compare

    So, what I'm up to:
    Maybe I'm missing something here, which makes this blind trust better in some way, but nobody told me how

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