PTG does not establish, maintain or recommend a price structure for rebuilding pianos, nor does it require that members be willing to buy pianos for the cost of work performed. PTG does not police the pricing policies of piano technicians. The statements below are sadly ill-considered. Ed Sutton This is a problem we run across way too often. It's people like you who give reputable piano technicians a bad name. First of all, if you can do all of what you just described for only $5000, you must be working for virtually nothing, or you work so fast that you think you're making money. And if you're working that fast, I would question the quality of your work.. Second, sentiments aside, what did you tell the customer the piano will be worth when you get done rebuilding it? If you told them it would be worth anything near $5000, are you ready and willing to buy it from them for that price? If not, then you're "ripping off" the customer. Without new strings and a new finish, you're not doing a complete rebuild. All you're doing is restoring the action and player system, and it will never sell for anything close to $5000 in S. Louis, or anywhere else. This is the kind of attitude that doesn't sit well in the PTG. Perhaps that's why you got the feeling that "we" don't respect you. Wim ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090408/b46de912/attachment.html>
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