Tuning discounts

[Piannaman@aol.com]

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Phil,

I give a discount to anyone who doesn't own a Baldwin(just kidding, they've 
been hurting me lately...).  

Seriously, the stores I do work for get special rates.  I give discounts to 
the schools I work for--25% off--if I can do multiple pianos at a time.  I 
will give discounts to some of the more needy students of those schools, but 
only 10% off.  Teachers will get discounts if they give me referrals, but the 
referrals have to come first.

Having no particular religious affiliation, coupled with the fact that most 
of the churches in my area are rather well-off, I don't give discounts there.

Friends pay 60% and dinner.  Family tunings are so few and far between, I 
don't charge for them.  Just dinner, and they have to listen to me talk 
pianos for the whole time that I'm there.  Try to get 'em interested, you 
know!  

Ex-wives pay 200%, plus travel time, plus hazardous duty pay.  Potential 
girlfriends...well, I won't go there.

Dave Stahl





In a message dated 5/10/03 4:46:47 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
pryan2@the-beach.net writes:


> 
> I know that there are some techs that say, give no one a discount on tuning
> fees, but this doesn't sit well with me.  Does anyone have a policy on
> giving tuning discounts to relatives, friends, associates etc? For example,
> do you charge your mother or sister(brother) for tuning?  If so, how much
> (%)?  How about your lifelong best friend or co-worker(non-tuner)?  How
> about a customer or teacher who sends you oodles of referrals?  Sometimes I
> wish my friends and family would not call me for tunings.  What do you do?
> 
> How about pro-bono work- churches (your own), hospitals, old folks homes?
> Does anyone do this and/or have a policy for it?
> 



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