[CAUT] (OT) Job Available

[Chris Solliday]

Dear Ken, You don't know what you're worth?!?!? You sure you want to stick
with that? Business is a proactive affair. You are as much a part of your
marketplace as your customers. It is give and take. I think you should
rethink this and accept your responsibilty as a shaper of the marketplace
you live and work in. I bet you can get more and deserve to.
Chris Solliday
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Zahringer" <ZahringerK at missouri.edu>
To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 12:29 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] (OT) Job Available


> I know Econ 101 is off-topic, but I can't let this one go.  The analogy of
> kicking someone when they are down is so inapplicable as to be ludicrous.
> In any market, different people are willing to pay different prices for a
> good or service based on the value they, individually, place on that good
or
> service.  The price is set as X because the number of people willing to
pay
> X or more is roughly equal to the available supply.  If Lance is getting
> $135(or more, as Ed pointed out) in Louisiana while I'm getting $75 in
> central Missouri, that might be enough to convince me to move to
Louisiana.
> The increased price both signals the excess demand and provides the
> incentive to fill it.  Once a few techs move there, though, we might have
to
> charge $125, or $100, or $95 to get enough business to stay busy.  Only a
> finite number of people are willing to pay $135 or more - lower prices are
> necessary for more people to be willing to pay for your service.
> Ultimately, the price for a tuning in Mandeville, LA will not be
> significantly different from other, similar markets in the country.
>
> If Dave could get $1000 per tuning in Dallas, that would mean that there
are
> people there willing to pay that much - he can't coerce anyone into having
> their piano tuned.  The fact that a bunch of power hungry busybodies might
> decide to coercively interfere with that voluntary transaction doesn't
make
> it right to do so.  He sure wouldn't get it for long, though.  We'd all be
> flocking to Dallas to make the big bucks.
>
> I don't know what I'm worth and I don't determine what I'm worth.  My
> clients do, and they tell me every time they decide to pay for my service.
> "Arrogance, profiteering, and immorality" merely mean you're getting paid
> more than I think you ought to.  "Thou shalt not overcharge" isn't in the
> Good Book, but "Thou shalt not covet" sure is.
>
> And since you brought it up, Dave, if you want to know some real facts
about
> current oil prices, read this: http://www.mises.org/story/2128
>
> Time for me to shut up and get back to work.
>
> Ken Z.
>
>
> On 4/27/06 10:03 AM, "Tim Geinert" <geinert at drtel.net> wrote:
>
> > At some level I know that some of what Ed says is right, but I don't
believe
> > it is an absolute.  Especially in  this scenario(Katrina, people moving
> > around, etc), and in some others as well, to push the market to whatever
it
> > can possibly bear pushes past the truth of knowing you are worth what
you
> > are charging to outright arrogance and profiteering and immorality.  It
> > can't ever be right to kick someone when they are down just because you
can!
> >
> > Good luck, Lance!
> >
> > Tim G.
>
> -- 
> Ken Zahringer, RPT
> Piano Technician
> MU School of Music
> 297 Fine Arts
> 882-1202
> cell 489-7529
>
>
>