I like your style! Terry Farrell ----- Original Message ----- From: <Piannaman@aol.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 10:35 PM Subject: Re: Tuning discounts > Phil, > > I give a discount to anyone who doesn't own a Baldwin(just kidding, they've > been hurting me lately...). > > Seriously, the stores I do work for get special rates. I give discounts to > the schools I work for--25% off--if I can do multiple pianos at a time. I > will give discounts to some of the more needy students of those schools, but > only 10% off. Teachers will get discounts if they give me referrals, but the > referrals have to come first. > > Having no particular religious affiliation, coupled with the fact that most > of the churches in my area are rather well-off, I don't give discounts there. > > Friends pay 60% and dinner. Family tunings are so few and far between, I > don't charge for them. Just dinner, and they have to listen to me talk > pianos for the whole time that I'm there. Try to get 'em interested, you > know! > > Ex-wives pay 200%, plus travel time, plus hazardous duty pay. Potential > girlfriends...well, I won't go there. > > Dave Stahl > > > > > > In a message dated 5/10/03 4:46:47 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > pryan2@the-beach.net writes: > > > > > > 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? > > > > >
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