Well, I guess Paul sent his response while I was typing my comments below. After reading Paul's 4:43 PM post, I feel quite sorry that I stuck my nose into this verbal minefield. Where the heck is that "retrieve" key on my keyboard? :-( Terry Farrell ......backtracking slowly with tail between legs........ On Oct 31, 2010, at 4:45 PM, Terry Farrell wrote: > Ed - "This doesn't compute. If you charge by how wealthy the > customer is, your rate is NOT constant, it is opportunistic, and it > will only be a matter of time before some customers find out that > they are being charged more because they have more." > > I think you may have mis-read Paul's post. Did you perhaps > read ......wealthy folks will still ask for me ..... so I give them > my higher than normal (for Paul) rate...... Paul stated that his > tuning rate is constant. Most of his work is done in a university > and he only does limited work outside of the university. When he > stated that he gives wealthy people a higher than normal rate, he > was saying that because his rate is higher than the normal rate > (higher than other local tuners), piano owners requesting his > services tend to be wealthy and that his tuning rate is higher than > other tuners in the area. > > I don't think he was trying to suggest that he charges a lower > tuning rate for less-than-wealthy clients, and a higher rate for > wealthy clients. > > Terry Farrell -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101031/2dcb964c/attachment.htm>
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