Terry and service vehicle

[Farrell]

Well, yes, several ways to look at this. What kinda got my goat is that this same guy was telling my client that he could not go any lower in price on the pianos because he was already only pricing them $500 over his wholesale cost.

$500 my a$$! Buy piano at wholesale cost, put it on your showroom floor, sell it, regulate it, deliver it, and tune it in the home after delivery - all at wholesale cost plus $500 - and drive around in an $80,000 car? Something don't jive. I suspect someone is being a bit less than honest here. I guess that is what I was really getting at.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don" <pianotuna@accesscomm.ca>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 4:50 PM
Subject: Re: Terry and service vehicle


> Hi Terry,
> 
> You are the one who is not charging enough. If you can not afford the
> vehicle of your choice and a *new* one, or a *leased* one your rates are
> simply too low. The salesman probably leases the car so in a sense the
> Government is paying and not him.
> 
> At 06:53 AM 6/19/02 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> >I saw the flip side of having a presentable car the other day. I pulled
> into the parking lot of a warehouse-type used Japanese piano importer to
> inspect a couple pianos for a lady. The salesman pulled into the lot right
> in back of me. Took him a couple minutes for the hardtop to automatically
> come out of the trunk of his new Lexus two-seat convertible. I am not
> familiar with this car, but I saw a used one in the Auto Trader and the
> asking price was $63,000. I concluded immediately, that the salesman (my
> spell checker suggested salmon?) was charging WAY TOO MUCH for his pianos!
> >
> >Terry Farrell
> >  
> >----- Original Message ----- 
> >From: "David Love" <davidlovepianos@earthlink.net>
> >To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> >Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 12:11 AM
> >Subject: Re: Terry and service vehicle
> >
> >
> >They also cost $45,000.  Techs must be doing well in your neighborhood.
> >
> >David Love
> >
> >
> >  ----- Original Message ----- 
> >  From: Diane Hofstetter 
> >  To: pianotech@ptg.org 
> >  Sent: June 16, 2002 2:47 PM
> >  Subject: Re: Terry and service vehicle
> >
> >
> >  Terry, 
> >
> >  I'm sorry you won't be in Chicago too, your posts are always interesting
> and it is clear that you are a great guy, it would have been nice to meet
> you in person. 
> >
> >  In our area almost all the techs drive Volvo wagons--Volvos have the
> image worldwide of being well engineered and well made, great technical
> machines, and that image is pretty good for a tech to have.  Also, it is an
> acceptable car to be sitting in the driveway of even the most posh homes,
> so your clients are not embarrassed--although not quite as good as a
> Mercedes ;-( 
> >
> >  Wishing you better luck, 
> >
> >  Diane 
> >
> >    James Baker <JamesBakerRPT@carolina.rr.com> wrote: 
> >
> >    Sorry you won't be in Chicago, but Atlanta is a toddlin' town too.
> I'll see you there.  By the way, I put a rebuilt transmission (after
> nursing it home from PA state) and ceiling liner in my Volvo wagon with
> 223,000 miles on it.  It is a '90 and I get 30 mpg on the interstate.  It
> is a great car with a lot of room.  I expect to get another 100,000 out of it.
> >
> >    James Baker
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> 
> Regards,
> Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.
> 
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