[CAUT] selling my customers down the river

[Keith Roberts]

Are you inferring that Tokyo is up the river from NY?   -Keith

On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 6:07 AM, Ben Treuhaft <blt at igc.org> wrote:

> Please dissect.  I have never sold my poor customers before.   -Ben
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> *From: *Carl Root <carldroot at comcast.net>
> *Reply-To: *<caut at ptg.org>
> *Date: *Sun, 9 May 2010 08:11:44 -0400
> *To: *<caut at ptg.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [CAUT] selling my customers down the river
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> 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".
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> Really?!?!?!?
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> Carl D. Root, RPT
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> On May 8, 2010, at 11:04 PM, Ben Treuhaft wrote:
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>   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).
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>  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.
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>  Another 50 like me but don’t call all that often.  They are $20 apiece.
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>  About 375 liked me but rarely call.  $5 – 10.
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>  The rest I have already sold for $1 each to an associate PTG member.
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>  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.
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>  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)
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>  Benjamin Treuhaft
>  .·´&hibar;`·.¸¸.><(((((º>
>  Underwater Piano Shop
>  39 E. 7th St. #3
>  New York, NY 10003
>  (212) 505-3173
>  BLT at igc.org
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