This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hi Tom, My advise is not to buy any product from Biasco. Find another dealer = with a better reputation. I worked for them a few years back...trust = me. Mike Bratcher ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Tvak@aol.com=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 3:07 PM Subject: advice today please! List Tomorrow I go into the den of iniquity, i.e., Biasco Piano, to examine = a piano on a client's behalf. It is a pre-owned U1, serial #725700. = Biasco is expecting me to come tomorrow to check it out and have agreed = to let me see it. Now, he has already put money down on this piano so = I'm not sure if the deal can be nixed at this point, no matter what I = find, but what general advice would you have for someone in this = situation? I've never been called on before to examine a piano at any = dealer before, let alone at Biasco. I'm not looking for advice on what = aspects of the piano to check; I can in all modesty say that I am fully = qualified to examine this piano for its integrity, quality and/or any = potential problems. =20 It's the ethical/business aspects that I ask advice on. For starters, = I plan on saying nothing to the folks at Biasco about what I find. The = client is paying me for advice and I will give it to him directly. But = if I find something that is truly wrong (and being Biasco...this could = be possible) can I be held liable in some way if the client decides to = back out of the deal? =20 I've already warned him of gray market Yamahas, but he's not = particularly concerned. He already owns another Yamaha and thought he = could provide the serial number to that piano if any parts were needed = for this piano. I had to admit that most of the parts would probably be = interchangeable. Not an ethical way to deal with a problem, but since = the problem at this point doesn't exist, I chose not to address it.=20 So, any advice will be appreciated. I don't want to get myself into = any trouble over this. I really don't expect to find anything radically = wrong with this piano. I think it's just going to be another one hour = service call, but I'm sure many of you have been here before and will = have some great advice. =20 If I can avoid stepping in it, I'd gladly walk around it! Tom Sivak ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/f6/84/49/ef/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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