Carl, I think you haven't taken into account Ben's impish humor. Remember, he's based in (or near) New York City, which happens to be "down the HUDSON river." Also note the name of his business, Underwater Piano Shop, which always brought to mind service calls by submarine. More recently his business name has frequently come up in real estate news stories "millions of Americans are living in houses with underwater mortgages." Tokyo's gain shall be our loss. Ben, will you still be able to continue your Send A Piana To Havana activities? Is this a strategy to divert all those grey market pianos to Cuba? Patrick Draine On May 9, 2010, at 8:11 AM, Carl Root wrote: > I have an interest in the subject of buying and selling piano service client lists. (wrote a PTJ article on the subject a while back.) I'm tempted to dissect this offering line by line, but I keep coming back to your subject line . . . "selling my customers down the river". > > Really?!?!?!? > > Carl D. Root, RPT > > > On May 8, 2010, at 11:04 PM, Ben Treuhaft wrote: > >> dear CAUT, the Underwater Piano Shop is moving to Tokyo and I am leaving hard-earned NY customers. I would like to sell my list, a Filemaker database (and Excel). >> >> Out of 1,000 customers, almost 200 love me. Them I am selling for $30 each, and they include German ambassadors’ wives and some of the best pianists in NY. >> >> Another 50 like me but don’t call all that often. They are $20 apiece. >> >> About 375 liked me but rarely call. $5 – 10. >> >> The rest I have already sold for $1 each to an associate PTG member. >> >> Anyone interested please call or write, I am willing to sell these segments separately, and to stand behind the lists to the extent that if nobody takes to you I’d return your money. >> >> I’d first hire you to tune a piano for me, to audition you. >> Thank you, Ben (formerly w/Steinway concert dept., currently NYU’s tuner) >> >> Benjamin Treuhaft >> .·´&hibar;`·.¸¸.><(((((º> >> Underwater Piano Shop >> 39 E. 7th St. #3 >> New York, NY 10003 >> (212) 505-3173 >> BLT at igc.org >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100509/116da135/attachment.htm>
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