referral? back

[pianoman]

Hello Joe,
The point is that the referring tuner could be the hero himself and charge
whatever he wanted.  They are HIS customer.  There are a lot of jobs I
would rather not do either, but this is why we call them jobs. :>)
James Grebe
R.P.T. of the P.T.G.
 Since 1962 in St. Louis, MO.
  Caster Cup Center of the Universe
Home of Handsome Hardwood Caster Cups
pianoman@inlink.com        

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> From: Joe & Penny Goss <imatunr@primenet.com>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: referral?
> Date: Thursday, August 27, 1998 7:44 PM
> 
> James,
> Sounds like that with a can of protech you could be an instant hero. If
the
> piano has not been tuned in that long you will be twenty years older
before
> it is tuned again O:)
> Joe
> 
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> > From: pianoman <pianoman@inlink.com>
> > To: pianotech@ptg.org
> > Subject: referral?
> > Date: Thursday, August 27, 1998 6:14 PM
> > 
> > Hello All,
> > 	Yesterday I had a fellow PTGer call me with a referral to replace a
set
> of
> > jack springs on a Cable spinet.  This fellow, somewhat younger than I
is
> > still living with his parents.  He has always seemed to me to be an
> > underachiever.  So he tells me the story and I asked him why he didn't
> want
> > to do the job.  He didn't want to get involved with it after he just
> tuned
> > it for the first time in about 20 years.  I asked him if he checked for
> > sluggish centers in the jacks and insisted that it wasn't that.  I told
> him
> > that I would be glad to take the job and told him that I charge by the
> time
> > it takes to do the job times my hourly fee ($70 per hour) + the service
> > calls to pick up and re-install the action.  Then he tells me that he
had
> > also talked to another PTGer and that he quoted him a price of around
> $350.
> >  I said so why didn't he do the job.  He comes back with,"I think that
> > price is too much.  I figured that my total price would be close to
that
> by
> > the time I was through.  So here is a guy that doesn't want to do the
job
> > himself and yet is dictating the price for someone who will do it.  The
> > idea is to work to make a profit  to eat.  I called the people up and
> told
> > them my pricing policy and they said they would think about it..  I
> wonder
> > how many repair jobs are not done because the peoples' tuner thinks it
is
> > too much money for someone else to fix but yet will not do it
themselves.
> 
> > Kind of made me mad.
> > James Grebe
> > R.P.T. of the P.T.G.
> >  Since 1962 in St. Louis, MO.
> >   Caster Cup Center of the Universe
> > Home of Handsome Hardwood Caster Cups
> > pianoman@inlink.com