Hi Terry, We do quite a few jobber type task, for pianos techs in the area, we give them a discount, but set the price that they charge the customer for that portion of the work. We have had a couple of embarassing incidents where a tech has passed the discount on to the customer, leaving us with egg on our face. Needless to say we will not accept jobs from these individuals. Building a trusting working relationship with fellow techs is where it is at. We refer a lot of tunings to the field techs that we work with, and take nothing, how ever they refer complete rebuilds to us and recieve nothing, other than they will do a warranty in home tuning that I pay full price for. We also will not poach that client under any circumstance. It works well for us. A good you scratch my back type of relationship. Roger At 10:18 AM 8/28/01 -0700, you wrote: >When fellow techs refer their overflow to me, I send them 10% of the tuning >fee. I NEVER inflate the fee to the customer to cover the 10% i pay out. >The same is true for the subject of my first post that started this thread. >The tech who took the restringing job was happy to get the gig, and my >referral fee is 20% of what he will charg, so we BOTH make money. I will >also retain the customer for future tunings. Just like an agent or manager >who does the footwork, books the jobs for actors, of which I am one, and >gets a % for his work, with the biggest slice of the pie going to the person >who actually performs the job. > >Terry Peterson >Precision Piano Service >Torrance, CA > > >_________________________________________________________________ >Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp >
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