Referral Fees

[George]

My apologies for the typo.
I worked on the inside of the piano and got paid.
He worked on the outside of the piano and got paid.
He said for his fee he would have done both the inside and the outside job.
George

At 08:43 AM 2/8/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Sure you can reply! But reply again. I don't understand what happened here.
>Did the other guy do ALL the work? What do you mean he could have done both
>his job and mine for the refinishing job? And then be on the lookout for
>what? I don't get it. But I may just be dense. Please explain, as I do wish
>to understand. Thanks
>
>Terry Farrell
>Piano Tuning & Service
>Tampa, Florida
>mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "George" <geotak@minet.ca>
>To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 8:49 PM
>Subject: Re: Referral Fees
>
>
> > Terry,
> > I am not sure if I should write to the listserv since I am not a PTG
> > member.  I agree to some sort of referral fee for any recommendation.
> > About 30 years ago, when I was a beginner, one of my costumer wanted to do
> > some major repairs on his piano refinishing included.  Since I am not a
> > furniture refinisher, I recommended my costumer to a colleague of mine who
> > had a complete refinishing section in his piano shop. ( For information
> > purposes he was a piano rebuilder with a complete shop).  When he returned
> > the piano to my costumer with a very beautiful piano a got paid he said he
> > could have done both his job and mine for the refinishing job.
> > That was two recommendation to this fellow from; the first and last.
> > I thought I mention this to all sincere technicians to be on the lookout
> > when referring someone.
> > George Takats
> > retired technician
> >
> > At 06:32 PM 2/7/01 -0500, you wrote:
> > >This post is related to Howard's recent post. Some techs like a lot of
>shop
> > >work and some don't. Some tune almost exclusively. They obviously run
>into
> > >many pianos that could use major regulation, action rebuilding, bridge
> > >repairs, restringing, rebuilding, etc.
> > >
> > >If a tech called me up and said that he/she had a customer with a piano
>that
> > >needs bridge work, restringing and a new pinblock - let's just say $3,000
> > >worth of work - it would seem appropriate to me to work out some type of
> > >referral fee for this type of work. I get what I want (shop work), the
>other
> > >tech gets a happy customer and a better piano to tune.
> > >
> > >I would think a referral fee would entice those non-shop oriented techs
>into
> > >pursuing these types of arrangements. Does anyone have any experience
>with
> > >this type of thing. I just did a bridge repair for another tech and gave
>him
> > >10% of the job fee. Any thoughts?
> > >
> > >Terry Farrell
> > >Piano Tuning & Service
> > >Tampa, Florida
> > >mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com
> >
> >