My take, If you feel a job causes you more work (physical, mental or otherwise) and you feel inclined to charge more, do so. No one forces clients to use any one of us and if we have a distaste for a particular job, we are free to decide whether to take it or not or, whether to charge more or not. In a case like that, I would offer to my client that they may be able to find someone to do it for less, but that is my fee. Charging more, purposefully, does not equate to gouging. Charging more arbitrarily does. Wim, getting sore playing racqutball is totally unrelated to work. There are those that suggest that tuning a square actually is. William R Monroe William R. Monroe, RPT A440-William R Monroe Piano Services, Inc. 314 E. Church St. Belleville, WI 53508 608-215-3250 www.a440piano.net On Jun 30, 2010, at 9:40 AM, tnrwim at aol.com wrote: > > YES! Even squares, for a nominal extra fee to pay for my aching back > after ward! > I'm sorry, Mike, but this, in my opinion, is not ethical. It's not > your customer's fault that you have a bad back. That's your problem. > Either put up with it, or don't accept the work. > > On occasion, after playing a hard couple of rounds of racquet ball, > my shoulder aches so much I can hardly lift my arm above my > shoulder. But I don't charge my customer extra because of that. > > You can charge your customer extra because it takes longer to tune > the piano because the pins are in the back and all the other unusual > techniques you have to use to tune the thing. But you should not > charge extra because it hurts your back. > > Just my 2 cents worth. > > Wim > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100630/79dca2d4/attachment.htm>
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