What Percentage?

[Avery Todd]

I hope he was at least paying more than one dealer here in Houston:
$15.00 for a floor tuning and even any warranty tuning paid for by
the store! And I "wonder" why he doesn't have a decent tuner on
staff!? :-)

Avery

>Dealers would like us to charge as little as possible. They would prefer
>concert level work at pitch correction prices. I know of one instance where
>a dealer has deliberately "imported" tuners for many years to a fairly
>large city in Canada (not my city thankgoodness) which has the unfortunate
>side effect of "busting prices".
>
>At 11:31 AM 10/20/02 -0700, you wrote:
> >Hmmm? I would have thought this original query would have brought more
> >comments. I went to the website for the cost of living index. There was,
> >available, a calculator. I ran the numbers of what the "good" tuners were
> >charging in 1972, when I first started in this business. The tuners of that
> >time, in my area, were charging between $25.00 and $30.0 for a regular
> >tuning. Using the little calculator: @ $25.00 in 1972, the equal dollar
> >value today is......(drum roll!)<G>: $108.25!!!!
> >That figure is, I'm sure, much higher than what current Tuners are charging,
> >in my area.
> >Assuming that the $30.00 figure, (of 1972), was what the "better" tuners
> >were charging, then todays equivilant would be:.........(Big Drum
> >Roll!!!)[G]: $129.90!!! Wow!
> >I have a feeling we have not kept up with inflation. Anyone care to comment?
> >Best Regards,
> >Joe Garrett, RPT, (Oregon)
> >
> >Been There, Didn't Like It, So I'm Here To Stay! [G}
> >
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>
>Regards,
>Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T. Tuner for the Center of
>the Arts
>
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