Hi Conrad, What is the date? Joe Goss RPT Mother Goose Tools imatunr at srvinet.com www.mothergoosetools.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Conrad Hoffsommer" <hoffsoco at luther.edu> To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 7:29 AM Subject: RE : piano tuning- fickle church accounts At 08:47 AM 11/1/2006 -0500, you wrote: >Reminds me of one thing: They only value your work as much as they pay >for it. I don't think it's a good idea to give either your work or supply >instruments at no cost. There should always be a fee. You can discount it >if you want, but if you give it away, customers will think it's not worth much. > >My 2 canadian pennies, > >Marcel Carey, RPT >Sherbrooke, QC I concur and add my old 2¢. I, too, used to do pro bono work at my own church and gave discounts to churchs, generally. Confusion grew on all sides as to what my rates actually were. I recall being almost at the point of eliminating discounts just on the theory that I didn't do any less work at the churches, and frequently more! One thing which finally pushed me over was getting to a church organist's home to tune her piano and seeing a check for the discounted church amount waiting on the piano (she wasn't home). I obviously hadn't indicated the discount on the church invoice, and she saw it... and assumed... Conrad
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