In a message dated 11/23/2009 9:02:18 P.M. Central Standard Time, wimblees at aol.com writes: What we're trying to do is get manufacturers to tell their dealers that if they want to sell their pianos they must have on staff at least one "factory trained" technician. What the definition of "factory trained" is, is open for discussion. But that, in itself would solve a lot of the problems we're discussing here. No, it won't. "Factory trained technicians" who must be invited to the factory, trained, boarded and fed, are generally those who have already established themselves in some way as having a competency far beyond what a dealer typically needs or wants. The color of the sky in Hawaii must be quite different from the one in Chicago (blue, with high clouds, and warm breezes there? cold, damp, gusty, threatening snow here) if you believe that dealers will not only support (or contribute to) that cost, but pay for the differential in gained competency. Only a few have done so, and they teeter on the margin, happily but teetering. Paul -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20091123/5786bef2/attachment.htm>
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