travel costs

[Don]

Hi David,

I give them a choice. Pay my full distance charge, or wait until I am in
the area again. I have very few call backs perhaps 1 per thousand.

The one time I had one out of town was for a residential school. The piano
in the music room (a new acrosonic style baldwin) had had some regulation
done--and a week later I got a call saying it didn't play.

I drove out fearing the worst..and found the piano *chock full*  of broken
up soda crackers. I clean it up as best as I could and gave them the bill
for serve including distance charges. I did check over the other
instruments as well and there were no problems.

At 08:21 PM 08/08/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>--- Don <drose@dlcwest.com> wrote:
>> I will go anywhere to tune a piano on this basis,
>> and be happy........... My own distance charge kicks
>in at ten miles.
>
>Too far for me is too far to realisticly make an
>economic return trip with a part,string....., sticky
>key.
>Imagine if:
>I travel 150klm for a group of 4 clients, split a 
>$100 charge(25each)for 2 hours extra travel &
>some gas money, and then am requested to return for a
>sticky key. Do I charge the $40 service call plus $100
>travel on one client for the sticky key, or other
>minor problem.
>
>How do you handle this when you "go anywhere"(far) and
>get a call/request followup for an odd thing. 
>
>                                 Dave Renaud
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Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.

Tuner for the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts

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