Hi All, It wasn't my intention to come out swinging. My apologies if my feathers were up! If I am responding, that means I'm at work. I really don't like tuning on Sundays, but I have to when we have recitals, so my nose was already out of joint before reading and responding to posts. I might have waited until today to get into this stream. Feathers unruffled, Paul From: Dale Erwin <erwinspiano at aol.com> To: pianotech at ptg.org Date: 10/31/2010 04:58 PM Subject: Re: [pianotech] billing dilemma with pitch raises Hi Paul Ok then... well having said many things in a way nobody can understand routinely I can relate. I think the ruffled feathers for Paul were simply based on unclear communications and it is difficult to understand anyones complete position on things such as rates in a brief e-mail. Paul Take a deep breath I think we get where you are coming from. I would relate to this as if someone really wanted me to tune a square grand which I don't do. If I acquiesced I would charge $300.00 or more. If they still wanted me after that....it would be a different decision on my part. Make sense? No? Yes? Peace Dale Dale S. Erwin www.Erwinspiano.com Custom piano restoration Ronsen piano hammers-sales R & D and tech support Sitka soundboard panels 209-577-8397 209-985-0990 -----Original Message----- From: Terry Farrell <mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com> To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Sun, Oct 31, 2010 2:23 pm Subject: Re: [pianotech] billing dilemma with pitch raises You'd think I'd have learned something the first time I responded....... well, here I go again....... Paul - I thought so. But gosh, you sure came out swinging! I'm quite sure Ed THOUGHT you charged one fee for the common folk and a different higher fee for the wealthy. THAT is why he jumped on you a little bit - in all honesty, I think just about anyone would IF they thought you were actually doing that. I'll bet this is how some wars have been started. We don't always need a Gulf of Tonkin or a USS Maine (the first one) - sometimes just a simple misunderstanding. ;-) Terry Farrell ducking and laying very, very low....... On Oct 31, 2010, at 4:59 PM, Paul T Williams wrote: Thank You, Terry, That's exactly my point! Even my "normal" tuning rate outside work is higher than the other techs, and IT SHOULD BE! the last thing I want to do when I leave work is to tune yet another piano! I don't care if Im "better" than other techs from my position, or not. I just don't want the extra work: but, if they want ME to tune, then I'll tune it for the higher rate. It just so happens that they're the higher end economic situation folks and usually (re-emphasise usually) have nicer pianos. (re-read the Balmer part of my last post...Top ten richest in the world??? Lester spinet???? really!) $90 bucks and they were all set! This is all stated right up front. If they go further, then I'm all for it. Paul = -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101101/960d6895/attachment.htm>
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