Hi Mathew, While it would be within reason to charge for an appraisal fee--keeping the funds for unperformed service is at best tacky. If I were the person doing the hiring you would be "off my list" and I'd tell everyone I knew about it. Mathew Todd wrote: One time I submitted an invoice to a school to tune four pianos. They wanted me to fax the invoice right away because they only had a few days to use their funds before the next budget year started. So I submitted it for four pianos (yes, with a break for each one). Anyway, when I got there to tune we (the choir director and myself) had discovered one of the pianos had been vandalized. (Some kid dumped a bucket of water in a grand). So I skipped that one. When I finished the three, I submitted another invoice for the three I did. When I got the check a few weeks later, I found they had still paid me for the four (my original invoice). You know how much of a hassle it can be to try and deal with this, when you are probably dealing with a dozen different people at the school, so I didn't bother (not my mistake). Oh, and I don't give credits either. Regards, Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T. Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat mailto:pianotuna at yahoo.com http://www.donrose.ca/ 3004 Grant Rd. REGINA, SK, S4S 5G7 306-539-0716 __________________________________________________________________ Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail. Click on Options in Mail and switch to New Mail today or register for free at http://mail.yahoo.ca
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