I know how you feel, Les. We had that happen to a young couple once too. They phoned from the charity's store, asking about the piano. We warned them; said we were coming to look at it for them. By the time we got there, they had spent their $200 before someone else got the "bargain" away from them and were walking it down the street. It was a total disaster. They walked it back to the charity's store and were told "No refund", but they could leave it there if they didn't want to pay to have it hauled off to the dump. So, it went back on the floor to be sold to the next sucker! The worst of all though, was when the piano store that had been in town for a long time sold a "piano" to some unsuspecting folk. They called me to "adjust the parts and tune it". The action didn't even belong to the piano it was in. (They should have at least suspected something when the case parts didn't fit.) Too bad we can't save even a part of the world. Diane Diane Hofstetter ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Leslie Bartlett" <l-bartlett at sbcglobal.net> Reply-To: l-bartlett at sbcglobal.net, Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org> To: "'Pianotech List'" <pianotech at ptg.org> Subject: piano rip off Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 22:44:39 -0500 I have a new client who just spent $350 on a "piano" at a second hand store. At least twelve pins were marked with an 'x' above to indicate they wouldn't hold a pitch. They were all in a line, cracked block? But my question is are there any creative ways to get back at this store which refueses to refund money to the people. They couldn't afford what they got. I was able to get a Baldwin Acrosonic for $300, but they really didn't have the money to buy anything more. So I said I would help them move it. I am just so hacked off that the poor continually get ripped off,and want to get even with the fools who sold them this POS. les bartlett -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.7/435 - Release Date: 08/31/2006
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