<HTML>.<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> In a message dated 12/16/01 6:17:17 AM !!!First Boot!!!, Erwinspiano@AOL.COM writes: </BLOCKQUOTE>        Dale Erwin wrote <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">       Wim <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Don't sell emotional attachment down the river. What's the piano worth now? who cares if she doesn't and she got a really great outcome.  Value is ascribed in different ways by us all.  My point is that  there are individual situations where the client will want to proceed after all our usual initial warnings of lack of financial feasibility, tonal outcomes and other prudent counsel.     It is our job to give good counsel but it really is the clients right to spend there money how they will . If we don't wish to take in a certain job that's our free choice. I hope you can see where I,m coming from. My Two Cents worth-Dale Erwin </BLOCKQUOTE> Dale I do agree with you.What I don't see as ethical, and I think you do tho, is talking the customer into rebuilding a piano just for you to have the money. I have done a job where the customer wanted to spend the money, regardless of the outcome. But that was a unique situation. Other than that, I try very hard to convince them otherwise. Wim </BLOCKQUOTE>   Wim--- Couldn't agree more. It's also important to know your own boundries and when it's wise to take a walk no matter how much money is involved.     Thanks-Dale Erwin</HTML>