[CAUT] selling my customers down the river

Keith Roberts keithspiano at gmail.com
Sun May 9 11:08:22 MDT 2010


I didn't think to look. Is there a Tokyo, NY?    That's like saying I'll be
92 years old in August. I didn't say what year.

Keith

On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Keith Roberts <keithspiano at gmail.com>wrote:

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