[pianotech] Tuning for $$$$

[Allan]

It is certainly not outlawed to be paid in cash ? 

 

Not disclosing the revenue is another thing.

 

I have a straight policy: cash or otherwise, I always write an invoice or
receipt. I figure that if I act clean with the Revenue Service, the
customers will be confident that I act clean with them.

 

I am too straight?

 

Allan

 

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From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of wimblees at aol.com
Sent: 2 mars 2009 13:19
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Tuning for $$$$

 

If 90% of my customers would pay me in cash, I would surely be investigated
by the IRS. They would wonder how I could afford to live in Hawaii making
$5,000 a year. 

Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT
Piano Tuner/Technician
Mililani, Oahu, HI
808-349-2943
Author of: 
The Business of Piano Tuning
available from Potter Press
www.pianotuning.com



-----Original Message-----
From: Gregor _ <karlkaputt at hotmail.com>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Sent: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 6:19 am
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Tuning for $$$$

Interesting differences between USA and Europe. 90 % of my customers pay
cash, credit cards are quite uncommon here and checks as well. The other 10
% get an invoice and transfer the money within 14 days - at least they are
supposed to do so.

Gregor

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From: AlliedPianoCraft at hotmail.com
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 07:51:47 -0500
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Tuning for $$$$

Maybe 2 or 3 a year. Hasn't changed at all for me. No cash yet this year.

 

Al

 

 

From: wimblees at aol.com 

Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 7:25 PM

To: tvaktvak at sbcglobal.net ; pianotech at ptg.org 

Subject: Re: [pianotech] Tuning for $$$$

 

Tom

I'm not getting more cash, but since I do accept credit cards, more
customers are using them. 

Wim

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Sivak <tvaktvak at sbcglobal.net>
To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 1:58 pm
Subject: [pianotech] Tuning for $$$$

List













Has anyone else noticed that people are paying in cash a lot more than
usual?  I 






don't take credit cards, so it's either cash or check, but on the average I 






normally get maybe one customer per month that pays me in cash.  Maybe, two.














Since January, I've been flush in cash.  Every week, one or two customers
pay me 






in cash.  I haven't used an ATM since '08.













So, I'm wondering: anyone else experience this lately?  And if so, could
this 






somehow be a bi-product of the recession?  (I could understand people using
a 






credit card in tough times to forestall payment, but I don't see how paying
in 






cash would be an advantage.) 













Tom Sivak






Chicago



















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