A440A at aol.com wrote: > Greetings, > I just had a customer call, wanting to sell her 7 year old Steinway > upright. She had already spoken to the local Steinway dealer, who offered to > take in on consignment for 50% of the selling price. > I suggested that she call one of our "All Steinway" schools to see if > they were interested, and she responded that she had already done that and > was told that the school had signed a contract that stipulated that they > couldn't purchase pianos from anyone but the dealer. > Is this normal? Normal? No, but it does seem to be usual. >Seems that a school would be crazy to both forego the > ability to acquire instruments from other sources and completely lose their > bargaining power! "All Steinway" comes at a price. Do they want prestige, or reasonable choices? Ron N
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