Ethics again

[pianolover 88]

I always recommend an inspection by an independant tech, such as myself who 
is NOT associated with the piano store where he/she is considering buying 
from. Simple.

Terry Peterson



----Original Message Follows----
From: justpianos at our.net.au
Reply-To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Subject: Re: Ethics again
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 11:14:52 +0900 (WST)

I don't believe this is a responsible excuse.
Does this mean that anybody having a "sale" is exempt from pre-delivery
service. No. They knew a sale would attract business, and the sale price
should not have excluded the non-sale service which everybody expects.
No excuse.
Bruce Browning - The Piano Tuner.




 > As I mentioned in one of my later posts, this was an unusual situation.
 > They were closing one branch of the store before opening the new one.  
The
 > sale made it sound like they were liquidating all their stock at
 > incredible one-time prices.  (I don't know exactly how cheap any of these
 > pianos actually were, but the impression was that the store was closing
 > and this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to buy a piano.)  It 
worked.
 >
 >   They sold all the pianos at the store, and started ordering more.  They
 > would come in and go out the same day.  Uncrate them and load them on a
 > truck.  Even getting that done was difficult.  As I said, I got about 40
 > tunings out of this sale and I'm only one of maybe a dozen tuners who
 > slogged their way through all these new pianos.
 >
 >   During this sale, which lasted about a month, I remember being called 
in
 > one day to the warehouse, where I tuned 6 pianos in one day.  I came
 > back the next day and they were all gone and there were new ones in
 > their place.  I tuned 6 that next day, too.  There wasn't much time for
 > any real prepping.
 >
 >   This is not how they usually do business. I've prepped many pianos
 > there, and there's no time limit, just get it done right.  They have a
 > checklist and you have to sign the card and indicate exactly what was
 > done on each piano and what, if anything else, needed to be done.
 >   I don't want to give the impression that this situation developed from 
a
 > shoddy business attitude.  It was as if a flood had come and all you
 > could do was hang on and keep your head above water.
 >
 >   Tom Sivak
 >
 > David Lawson Pianos <dlawson at davidlawsonspianos.com.au> wrote:
 >   Hi From Oz,
 > I noted one very important fact to this whole discussion, that fact is
 > there was no presale piano preparation. Any dealer who just unpacks a
 > piano
 > and sends it out to the client is not only asking for trouble, but is not
 > doing the right thing by the client, the manufacturer, the tuner or
 > themselves. All of this stuff going back and forward could have been
 > nipped
 > in the bud if the right thing had been done in the first place.
 > Happy new year to you all.
 > David Lawson Wangaratta Australia
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 >> 5. Re: Torque measurement (Ron Nossaman)
 >> 6. Re: Ethics Question on Loose Pins (Pianoman)
 >> 7. Re: loose ethics (Clark Sprague)
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