No- shows..... again

[David Love]

Did she apologize for being a no show at the appointment?  I doubt it.  You
don't need customers like that.  Let them tune the damn thing themselves.  

 

David Love
davidlovepianos at comcast.net
www.davidlovepianos.com 

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Thomas Cole
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 10:19 AM
To: Pianotech List
Subject: Re: No- shows..... again

 

I had a similar long trip into the mountains to find that the owner was not
at home. I found the front door unlocked and since the piano was just inside
the door and I had tuned for the woman a couple of times before, I decided
to save the appointment and do the tuning.

Arriving home that evening, I got a call from a very irate woman who was
extremely upset that I had entered her house while she was gone (forgotten
about the tuning date) and now "The Whole World" knows that she doesn't lock
her front door and I let her go on venting hoping that she wears herself out
screaming at me instead of doing something else.

The only thing that would settle the argument was that I accepted half of my
fee. So I took it that entering a house without previous arrangement is
probably not a good policy and have refrained from doing so ever since.

Another thing I learned, then and since is that either crazy people live in
the mountains or living in the mountains makes you crazy.

Tom Cole

Dean May wrote: 

I had a no show a couple of weeks ago, a fairly long time customer in a
small nearby town. Her door was open so I went in, tuned the piano and left
an invoice. Always check the door. If it is open and it is a repeat customer
who knows me I always go ahead and go in to tune it. 

 

Turns out this lady had been taken to the hospital the morning before. She
was out in a couple of days and sent me a check with a note of thanks that I
went ahead and tuned her piano. 

 

Dean

Dean May             cell 812.239.3359 

PianoRebuilders.com   812.235.5272 

Terre Haute IN  47802

 

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From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of reggaepass at aol.com
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 8:38 AM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: No- shows..... again

 

Here, here Ed.

When someone stands me up, I leave a note stating that I was there at the
appointed time I had on my calendar, waited fifteen minutes, and then left.
(After all, it is possible that I wrote is down wrong.)  While I'm waiting,
I call 1) their house (in case they are there, but don't hear the door), and
then, 2) I call my answer machine to see if there is word from them there.
If no, and they afterwards call and explain that they had a (true) emergency
and didn't have my number with them, OK.  If they just forgot, I tell them
that they will have to pay for half of a service call for the missed
appointment without prior notice when I do service their piano next.
Otherwise, they need to find another date to the prom.  

In concert with this no show policy is a rather liberal cancellation policy:
As long as they let me know that they will not be able to keep the
appointment, no love is lost.  The stated advance warning is 24 hours, but
in practice I will accept them actually reaching me any time before the
scheduled service.  It comes down to a matter of consideration, and as Ed
has pointed out, thinning the heard of undesirables is a good thing in terms
of re-ordering your universe for the better.

Alan Eder

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: A440A at aol.com
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Sent: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 3:25 am
Subject: Re: No- shows..... again

 
 
 
 
<< How do you deal with a no show appointment? Do you bill them? Bill half? 
 
 
 
Not 
 
 
 
at all? Any other way to deal wit them? >>
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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