perplexed

[Richard Moody]

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> From: Jon Page <jpage@capecod.net>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: perplexed
> Date: Saturday, February 07, 1998 11:54 AM
> 
> List,
> I ask you to help me sort through this.
> 
> I have a grand on consignment with a dealer closer to Boston.
> I supplied an artist bench with it.
> he said he sold the piano , I still got my asking price; more power

(the dealer still hs the bench)

> It's just the principle of the thing, I regard it as an ethical
question.
> 
> Under reversed circumstances, I would return the bench to him
> out of friendship alone without hesitation.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Jon Page
> Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net)
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Um  lemme see.  You had a dealer sell a piano and a bench you
supplied on consignment. Did he give you all the money you wanted 
for piano and bench.?  Once that happens he is the owner, as far as
you (and any one else) are concerned.   Now why do you want the
owner's bench back??

Moody , R.