Quality pianos

[John Minor]

On Sun, 19 Feb 1995, David Porritt wrote:
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> The Russion piano I worked on 2 weeks ago was sold to a family who lives
> in a very prestigious neighborhood.  They could have bought better but
> were lead to believe that this piano was at least "good enough."
>
"They COULD have bought a better (piano)"!  BUT, I'm sure they weren't
crying that they couldn't spend MORE money! I've worked with this
type of customer in the past, and have seen consumer reluctance to
spend their hard-earned money on ANYTHING! Unless of course it sits in
their driveway, and they can drive around in it to flaunt their affluence!
They believe these sales pitches because they WANT to, and they want to
because they DON'T want to spend one more cent than they have to.

John Minor
University of Illinois
jminor@uiuc.edu