I would never charge to tune for family, unless they offered, and then it would be a steep discount. "Well I won't charge for mileage which in your case would be 1324 miles." For anyone else---if I am not going to charge I tell them before hand. If I am going to charge I don't tune until we agree. Now suppose the local highschool band director expects to have his home piano tuned as a complement because he got me a $400 tuning job for a music festival. Well; unless he makes less money than me, by at least half, ferget any free tuning. He will get a discount though----but 25% off is as low as I go. ---rm ----- Original Message ----- From: Phil Ryan <pryan2@the-beach.net> To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 6:46 PM Subject: Tuning discounts > I know that there are some techs that say, give no one a discount on tuning > fees, but this doesn't sit well with me. Does anyone have a policy on > giving tuning discounts to relatives, friends, associates etc? For example, > do you charge your mother or sister(brother) for tuning? If so, how much > (%)? How about your lifelong best friend or co-worker(non-tuner)? How > about a customer or teacher who sends you oodles of referrals? Sometimes I > wish my friends and family would not call me for tunings. What do you do? > > How about pro-bono work- churches (your own), hospitals, old folks homes? > Does anyone do this and/or have a policy for it? > > Phil Ryan > > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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