cost o' living

[David Ilvedson]

How about they bring the pianos to you?   ;-]

David I.



----- Original message ---------------------------------------->
From: James Grebe <pianoman@accessus.net>
To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
Received: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 07:45:49 -0600
Subject: Re: cost o' living

>I added a  increase tuning price last spring to cover the higher gasoline 
>cost.  It probably is a wash.  I am not making any more profit, just putting 
>myself in a higher tax bracket.  Gasoline costs are going to do the country 
>in unless we find another way of getting around with our tool boxes.
>Jim
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>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "J Patrick Draine" <draine@comcast.net>
>To: <ilvey@sbcglobal.net>; "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 5:48 AM
>Subject: cost o' living


>>
>> On Nov 13, 2004, at 2:00 AM, David Ilvedson wrote:
>>
>>> Terry,
>>>
>>> You don't want to think about the cost of living in California right on 
>>> the coast in La La Land...
>>>
>>> David I.
>>
>> I know we've all absorbed the costs of the past year's gasoline price 
>> jump, but folks in the north are looking at a 37% increase in home heating 
>> oil (gas heat is up too but not that much). That had been a bit abstract 
>> (gloomy projections in the business section), but the temperature's been 
>> in the 20s most mornings this week, and there's five inches of snow on the 
>> ground today. The good news? With the heat going full blast, the pianos 
>> will be going out of tune fast. But will the heating budget eat up the 
>> "discretionary funds" used for luxuries like a properly tuned piano? It 
>> seems time for another price adjustment of my own.
>> Life in the Northeast,
>> Patrick Draine
>>
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