Prices for Rebuilding work... Ed

[Brian Trout]

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Greetings Ed,

Thanks for your response.

Wow!  $7.00 for a tuning.  Kind of reminds me of working for a dealer in
Columbus, OH back in about 1984? doing floor tunings for $10.00 each.

I appreciate your input on the price conversation.  I'm very thankful =
for
all the responses.

Hope you're having a nice weekend.

Brian Trout
Quarryville, PA
btrout@desupernet.net

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From: <A440A@aol.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 02, 1999 6:49 AM
Subject: Re: Prices for rebuilding work


>
> Greetings,
>    You have to know what you are worth, per hour.  Determining your =
hourly
> rate is the first thing you have to do.  (Wim Blees has a lot of good
> perspective on this). Then you add the expenses involved in doing the =
job.
> With experience, a tech learns what jobs were not profitiable, or what
prices
> are too low.  In beginning, the tech must compete on price, since =
there is
no
> other basis for customers to compare.  Quality work will build its own
> reputation, which will allow your prices to rise as demand surpasses =
time.
> A technician that is swamped is not charging enough.
>    It is essential, for the long haul, that your prices be low enough =
to
be
> acceptable to sufficient numbers of customers and high enough so that =
you
are
> satisfied with doing this work.  A person that is feeling underpaid =
will
> rarely do the same quality of work as one that feels well compensated,
> however, in beginning a business, faith is required that quality will
bring
> its own rewards and the lower prices necessary to attract business =
will
only
> be a temporary thing.
> Regards,
> Ed Foote
> (who still remembers tuning practise room uprights, at night, for =
$7.00
> apiece and thinking it was pretty easy money!(1976)
>


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