piano rip off

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Leslie:
	You are 'da MAN!  God bless you and that dealer.  Reminds me something
about "going around and coming around"...  Your rewards are "in the mail"!

	Paul McCloud
	San Diego


> [Original Message]
> From: Leslie Bartlett <l-bartlett at sbcglobal.net>
> To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
> Date: 09/02/2006 7:22:41 AM
> Subject: RE: piano rip off
>
> I guess I'm a fool.  Being kidless, approaching retirement age, etc. gives
> me certain freedoms with my age, though I can't afford to do this kind of
> thing often.  I called Fred Forshey, owner of the local Steinway dealer,
> told him the situation, and he said he would "work with
me"................
> So, this afternoon I will go down there and pick up what he said was a
> "really nice" Acrosonic for the people. He worked "very well"........  He
> has done this kind of thing before to help others.  The man of the house
has
> a Dodge pick up (oh I hate loading pianos in pick ups!) so we will get it
to
> his house.They don't have money to pay me to move it.  But their kid wants
> to learn to play piano........   One can help a little once in awhile.
> Then we'll put the old piano in the garage. There are a couple cousumer
help
> groups associated with local TV stations which might put some pressure on
> the store to refund their money. If not, I'll load it in the pickup, and I
> will dump it in front of the store, and then dare the owners to come after
> me.  Oh, while I was on the phone to the store, holding, of course, they
had
> the nicest Christian music playing...................................... 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On
Behalf
> Of Diane Hofstetter
> Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2006 1:51 AM
> To: pianotech at ptg.org
> Subject: RE: piano rip off
>
> 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
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> Diane Hofstetter
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> ----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
>
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