---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment --=====================_540578==.ALT Kawai has been slow in reimbursement for me and I'm currently waiting for close to 2 months now for a payment from Weber. Greg Newell At 04:57 AM 4/16/2003, you wrote: >In a message dated 4/15/03 9:05:14 PM Pacific Daylight Time, >tune4u@earthlink.net writes: > > >>My point: I don't get much dealer work and almost no warranty repairs out >>here, but what little I've seen and stories I've heard suggest that >>neither is really worth much to my business. >> >>How does that notion fit in with the experience of others? How about you >>city-slickers? Is it better in a bigger new-piano market? > > >Alan, > >Dealer "prep" is sorely lacking in the greater SF Bay Area, too. I do a >fair amount of dealer work, and warranty work once in a while. Having >only been self-employed for a little over a year, it will take awhile >until I don't have to do dealer work anymore. When that time arrives, I >will celebrate. > >The thing that gets me is when certain dealers have a floor piano that is >20-30% flat/sharp. "Just tune it," they might say, not understanding the >concept of a pitch raise no matter how many times I explain it or how many >copies of the PTG Technical Bulletin I give them. Most of them seem to be >only concerned with getting the pianos out the door, and not with how the >pianos function once they are in the home. And despite efforts by the >better techs to educate them, they choose to remain ignorant. > >On the other side of the coin, the customers around here price shop to the >point where the dealers often make a very small profit on many new >instruments, which leaves few $ for floor prep. The guy who does the free >follow-up in-home-tuning struggles with getting a very flat or sharp piano >to pitch and in tune. And customers are told by the dealer that the piano >needs to be tuned "maybe once a year," so they don't understand why their >new 5,000 dollar upright goes out of tune 3 months after the tuner was >there. The conflict lies in the tech trying to explain to the customer >that new pianos need frequent service without stepping on sales-peoples' >toes. > >Like I said, when the time comes that I don't need to work for dealers, I >will celebrate... > >I've done warranty work for Kawai, and they have been quite timely in >their reimbursements. The customers that I've done the work for have been >impressed with how promptly the work has been done. I've gotten many >recommendations from these customer to their friends, and gotten far more >work than the original warranty job out of them. > >Dave Stahl > > > > >--- > >Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). >Version: 6.0.471 / Virus Database: 269 - Release Date: 4/10/2003 Greg Newell mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net --=====================_540578==.ALT An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/7f/4a/ee/dd/attachment.htm --=====================_540578==.ALT-- ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment --- Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.471 / Virus Database: 269 - Release Date: 4/10/2003 ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment--
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