---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment At 06:12 PM 7/17/04, you wrote: >It takes the best/busiest tech in your area to raise his prices and the >others will follow. Is that you? Best? Who knows? I have to be pretty good for the university job I have but there are others who are also very good. I'm definitely not the busiest, if you're referring to in-home type clients because I simply don't have the time to do that much off-campus work. >Are you raising every year? No, but I go up often enough to stay pretty close to the highest priced techs in town. >David I. Avery >----- Original message ----------------------------------------> >From: Avery Todd <avery@ev1.net> >To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org> >Received: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 15:58:03 -0500 >Subject: Re: hr rate; complete regulation of the grand piano > > >Hi Patrick, > > >I'm like a lot of techs, I have a hard time raising my prices! :-) > >But in spite of that, I'm still on the high end of the prices here > >in Houston! > > >Avery > > >At 10:28 AM 7/17/04, you wrote: > > >>On Jul 17, 2004, at 3:49 AM, Avery Todd wrote: > >> > >>> Dale, > >>> > >>> I thought I was charging "pretty" close to what I should be. Considering > >>> I also have a full-time "salary" type job. > >> > >>Umm, what's that got to do with it? Unless perhaps all your private work > >>is at venues (community concerts, your church denomination) for which you > >>feel an overwhelming altruistic urge to subsidize the arts or religion? > >>Seems to me your non-salaried work should be in your "overtime zone," not > >>the "below the market" zone. > >> > >>> Am I wrong? > >> > >>Altruism is a noble virtue. > >>We're all free to set our prices where we wish. I know it's not easy for > >>me to raise my own prices. We ought not sell ourselves short. > >> > >>Patrick Draine > >>in the expensive Northeast (hey did you know plywood prices went up 53% > >>this past year?) > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > > >_______________________________________________ > >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/c1/7d/69/8b/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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