[pianotech] Tuning for $$$$

[John Ross]

Just because it is cash, doesn't mean you don't claim it as income.
Or do you. :-)
John Ross
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: wimblees at aol.com 
  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 2:18 PM
  Subject: Re: [pianotech] Tuning for $$$$


  If 90% of my customers would pay me in cash, I would surely be investigated by the IRS. They would wonder how I could afford to live in Hawaii making $5,000 a year. 


  Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT
  Piano Tuner/Technician
  Mililani, Oahu, HI
  808-349-2943
  Author of: 
  The Business of Piano Tuning
  available from Potter Press
  www.pianotuning.com


  -----Original Message-----
  From: Gregor _ <karlkaputt at hotmail.com>
  To: pianotech at ptg.org
  Sent: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 6:19 am
  Subject: Re: [pianotech] Tuning for $$$$


  Interesting differences between USA and Europe. 90 % of my customers pay cash, credit cards are quite uncommon here and checks as well. The other 10 % get an invoice and transfer the money within 14 days - at least they are supposed to do so.

  Gregor


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  From: AlliedPianoCraft at hotmail.com
  To: pianotech at ptg.org
  Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 07:51:47 -0500
  Subject: Re: [pianotech] Tuning for $$$$


  Maybe 2 or 3 a year. Hasn't changed at all for me. No cash yet this year.

  Al


    From: wimblees at aol.com 
    Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 7:25 PM
    To: tvaktvak at sbcglobal.net ; pianotech at ptg.org 
    Subject: Re: [pianotech] Tuning for $$$$


    Tom

    I'm not getting more cash, but since I do accept credit cards, more customers are using them. 


    Wim

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Tom Sivak <tvaktvak at sbcglobal.net>
    To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org>
    Sent: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 1:58 pm
    Subject: [pianotech] Tuning for $$$$


List

Has anyone else noticed that people are paying in cash a lot more than usual?  I 
don't take credit cards, so it's either cash or check, but on the average I 
normally get maybe one customer per month that pays me in cash.  Maybe, two.  

Since January, I've been flush in cash.  Every week, one or two customers pay me 
in cash.  I haven't used an ATM since '08.

So, I'm wondering: anyone else experience this lately?  And if so, could this 
somehow be a bi-product of the recession?  (I could understand people using a 
credit card in tough times to forestall payment, but I don't see how paying in 
cash would be an advantage.) 

Tom Sivak
Chicago



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