<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 6/25/01 5:53:17 PM Central Daylight Time,
<BR>ramsey@extremezone.com (Kevin E. Ramsey) writes:
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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">. When I think of him "doing the right thing" without getting paid; well, I
<BR>just want TO GO BERSERK!!!!!!!!!!!</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BR>Well, there is an exception to the service bonds never being performed in my
<BR>area. It's when I did them and did them for nothing, just as you say.
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<BR>I have, in fact, done business with a Yamaha dealer from Iowa and one from
<BR>Milwaukee: same thing each time. They want to use that $35 Yamaha pays to
<BR>pay for the "free" tuning and that card is just something you mindlessly
<BR>check the boxes on and sign. Welcome to the real world.
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<BR>I don't know what the local Yamaha dealer pays its tuners but whatever it is,
<BR>you can be sure it's not enough to cover what Yamaha really expects to be
<BR>done. I don't do any business with that dealer, never have, never will. I
<BR>don't recommend them, they don't recommend me. It's the "K-mart" type music
<BR>store around here. People who really value music and their piano do not get
<BR>one there. The only exception has been when someone really wanted a Yamaha.
<BR>In any of the cases I have seen, the service bond has never been done by that
<BR>dealer's tuners. To quote a recent customer, "That free tuning they give you
<BR>is a joke".
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<BR>I have my own customers and do independant contracting for a respectable
<BR>dealer, one who will give a presentation in Reno: Timothy Farley RPT.
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<BR>If only all dealers could be like Tim and Roger from this list, the world
<BR>would be a different place. Wishing for that however would be as unrealistic
<BR>as actually believing the hype that the Yamaha dealer from Madison wrote.
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<BR>Bill Bremmer RPT
<BR>Madison, Wisconsin</FONT></HTML>