Promotional items: Was "calendars"

[Patrick Greene]

I don't know if anyone else has this problem, but since I bought some pens
from a promotional place, they call and hound me about once a week with some
new gimmick...
----- Original Message -----
From: Farrell <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 10:14 AM
Subject: Re: Promotional items: Was "calendars"


> And you can get paid $50 next month to pull the pen out of the
> non-functional action!
>
> ;-)    Just funning.
>
> Terry Farrell
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Tvak@AOL.COM>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 9:36 AM
> Subject: Re: Promotional items: Was "calendars"
>
>
> > I have given out pens for the last two years.  The quality of the pens
> does
> > vary.  Having ordered two different types of pens, I will definitely be
> going
> > back to the first type I ordered, there being many problems with that
> second
> > design.  My way of testing each one is to write out their bill with the
> pen,
> > and then give it to them.  (This way I'm sure it works.)
> >
> > It costs me about 75 cents/pen, and I think it is well worth it, based
on
> > comments I've gotten from clients.
> >
> > I used to just leave them on the piano, thinking they would go to the
> piano
> > after I left to play something and find a little gift from me, but I had
> so
> > many people run out the front door after me, screaming, "You left your
> pen!!"
> >  I'd reply from my car as I backed out the driveway, "No, that's YOUR
> pen!"
> > And they'd yell, "No, it's YOURS!"  So now I hand it to each client
> > personally, saying, "I'm sure you can always use another pen."
> >
> > One lady, calling to schedule her second tuning with me, actually said,
"I
> > lost your card, but then I remembered the pen!  What a good idea,
leaving
> > that pen!"
> >
> > Tom Sivak
>