referral? back

[Joe & Penny Goss]

I know. He needs a kick in the you know where.Joe

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> From: pianoman <pianoman@inlink.com>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: referral? back
> Date: Friday, August 28, 1998 5:32 AM
> 
> 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
> > 
> > ----------
> > > 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