Honest people

[Tony Caught]

Hi Ron And List

Why are piano tuners generally paid (no bouncy checks etc)

I have always put it down to two major reasons, am not sure which outweighs
the other.

1    People who are educating them selves or their children outside the
education system are more caring and responsible people

2    Having the piano tuned is way down below fixing the TV, Washing
machine, refrigerator etc.  If any of these items break down, the owner will
often call the service repair man to fix it knowing full well they do not
have the money to fix it.  Pianos are not as important thus generally they
will not call unless they have the money.

Have you been called and asked how much to tune a piano, quoted a price with
a bit of a guess, then heard back from that person 2 / 3 weeks / months
later ?  They are saving for it.

Being low on the demand list has its good points as well as its bad points.

Merry Xmas All

Tony Caught caute@accessnt.com.au

----- Original Message -----
From: Ron Nossaman <nossaman@SOUTHWIND.NET>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, 22 December 1999 12:33
Subject: Re: Honest people


> > Do clients feel more responsibility to pay a piano technician who
> >comes into their home, pets their dog, and maybe even sits at the kitchen
> table
> >for a 5-minute chat about this and that, than they feel toward a company
> >that in
> >their mind is a non-personal entity?  If they don't pay a self-employed
piano
> >technician, they know it will hurt him/her.  If they don't pay a company,
they
> >may think, "Ah, well, they figure bad debts into their budget anyway."
>
> I've always thought this was part of the reason. The other part, from the
> customers' perspective, being that the tech has been in my house and
"KNOWS
> WHERE I LIVE"! I'm afraid that an awful lot of what makes us all
> (collectively) do the "right" thing is an underlying fear of the
> consequences. All high minded sentiments to the contrary, a lock is still
> to keep an honest man honest, laws define minimum standards of conduct and
> provide punishment for offenders, and religion wouldn't keep anyone under
> control if it didn't include the threat of a Hell of some sort.
>
> Ron N