Cash tips?

[Jim Coleman, Sr.]

Hi Ed:

I have received tips from 3 different people in 55 years. One was a $200 tip
on a $3300 rebuild of a Vose & Sons upright. This was from my High School
Class sponsor. 45 years after graduation.

Another customer always writes the check for $5 or $10 more than my bill.
When I raised my price up to $75 she did not add extra that time.

The other time was when I went to a Catholic church at 6:30 on a New Years
Eve to tune the piano for a small import Band which was performing that
night. I made out the bill for $80, they gave me $100 cash.

I've never felt like turning down a tip, but it is quite unusual to get one.

Jim Coleman, Sr.


On Fri, 16 Jan 1998, A440A wrote:

> Les writes:
> <<It's the customer
> who pays the bill without quibbling and then includes a 10% (or more) cash
> tip who gets remembered. Actually, I remember quite a few!>>
> 
>     I have heard of this, but to tell you the truth, I have never gotten a
> cash tip for my piano work !  Not once in over 20 years.  ( well, once, a guy
> told me to keep the change ($6) out of a $100 bill.  
>     90% of my customers have been with me for at least 10 years, and my prices
> have never been "competitive"....................
>   How many of y'all get tips, over and above your bill? 
> Regards, 
> Ed Foote
> >Wondering about money and people, and life, and how much more coffee I really
> can drink on a rainy, cold, Nashville morning, ( all of God's weather is
> perfect!)<
> 
>