For clicking a button and spending thousands of golds and tons of hours maxing their skills.
Its the end game for some people.
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Crafters do not have a “right” to get their investment back. If you are a crafter who spends a bunch of gold leveling your profession, then YOU took the risk hoping to make tons of money. So don’t pretend this is a service you are benevolently providing. Also, nobody knows what a tip “SHOULD BE”. People just like to brag about the tip they made as a not so subtle way to hint that they could afford it easily because they have tons of gold to waste.
You think 5k is bad?
Wait until you try to get a 418 crafted, such is the cost for not leveling the profession and dedicating knowledge points into the spec needed.
If you’re asking for top quality then I’m sure they are at least asking for 5k. just toss it up in public for any quality and you can get it next to nothing.
Cost me 20k for my Lariat. Ring and dagger weren’t as bad though.
I’m also on a huge server so i imagine this varies a lot.
FALSE!
Mogs/mounts are the true end game. 
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I agree with your sentiment that people lying in their advertisements about tips that are actually payments. But the amount of investment requires to just “click a button” is why they’re charging you.
Some of the especially valuable recipes(lariat) are still 500k+ to actually obtain one. That recipe was literally gold cap for the first few weeks. Just leveling the profession is expensive too, both in gold costs, and time costs.
Then you need to factor in the time cost of advertising so you can even find someone to craft your item, and how many they’d need to make. Also that they need to be next to a specific crafting station, which means they can’t be doing other content while they’re crafting.
Anything less than 200k an hour is hardly worth doing, a McJob pays more in gold tokens per hour. So assuming 1.5 minutes to find a customer and make their garbage, which is low end, because you have to hand hold half of them on how crafting works/explain recrafting. That’s a out 5k gold per craft.
Meanwhile, for NON-spark items like profession tools, I’m tipping 8k gold. Sounds like you really don’t grasp how much money you can earn playing the game and, thus, the economy which factors common knowledge like that into it.
What are you DOING with all your gold? Trying different transmogs several times a day every day and constantly dying/spirit-rezzing yourself?
Then …level…the…profession…and…make…it …yourself.
Yeah 20k is reasonable for how sick the lariat is. I will pay what my JC requests at this point. The items are cool, once you find a crafter that is good, you’re set.
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Dude… I’ve seen greens and blues got for 5000 on the AH. Level 70 purples over 100,000. Stop complaining and pay that measly 5000.
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EXACTLY!
Ive paid 100k gold for ONE frikkin green BOE that is hard to find for mogs.
lmao.
And theyre whining about having to pay for RELEVANT gear. lol
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I mostly do and avoiding giving someone 5-10k to turn my mats into my item is a good reason to do so.
ilvl and gold are fleeting.
Mogs are forever. 
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so youre here complaining about this because… … … ?
Here’s a tip, even that can be incredibly cheap. Post on trade that you want X made at Y quality, and are paying Z. You will get bites.
People get away with high fees, because advertising services is absolutely atrocious experience. Sitting in valdrsklan spamming trade with my maxed leatherworking for hours at a time, is not fun.
But if I see someone wants say, a flaring cowl made, and I’m in town, I’ll happily make one for them with minimal expectations for the fee/tip.
I’ve paid a combined 3k gold commission for my 418 weapon and belt on this character. Granted I’ve provided R3 mats every craft, but always got max proc on 1st craft. This has been true across 3 characters without fail for me in fact.
Anytime a crafter tries to gape me for commission, especially this late into the tier, I just simply find another. And I get the stuff I want on my terms, not theirs. Sure it takes some additional time, but this game is a marathon, not a sprint.
Shouldn’t you have 5 sparks by now, slacker?
they’re not. they’re charging for the time and expense they incurred leveling the profession.
For the same reason I would complain if McDonald’s charged me $10 for a cheeseburger and called $9 of it a “tip” tbh. That’s not a tip, it’s a fee, and I’d go elsewhere after telling them what I thought about it. 
Don’t see what the issue is with people giving their opinions about comically high “tip” demands for crafting.