Coke and Pepsi. It protects the dealer's interest (in the dealer), and it gets the school the pianos it needs/wants. The school is kinda stuck if they want SS, or maybe it's the only way they can get any kind of "deal" on SS, because the dealer says "Sign here, or pay 25% more, or go buy some nice Chinese imports." Then again, it's not unlike how we would love for our customers to only "buy" from us. It upsets me when a customer has someone else tune his/her piano because a friend's tuner was in town that day. The difference is that we don't require a binding contract. Presumably the 50% consignment dealer is the same dealer that the local All-SS schools have a contract with? Paul Bruesch Stillwater, MN On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:02 AM, <A440A at aol.com> wrote:<snip> > Is this normal? Seems that a school would be crazy to both forego the > ability to acquire instruments from other sources and completely lose their > bargaining power! Anybody heard of this clause in the "All Steinway" > designation? > </snip> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090601/2814cb4b/attachment.htm>
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