<WBR>When I had a store in St. Louis, Consignment was 25% of the selling price of the piano, less anything I did to make the piano "saleable". (The customer paid to move the piano to the store.) The reason I said "saleable", was to make sure I also got reimbursed for any touch up. I once had "playable" in the contract, but once I did about 2 hours of touch up on the case of a piano I took in. After the piano sold, I took the time off the amount I owed the owner. He said case touch up did nothing for the playing of the instrument. I agreed, and gave him the extra money. But I learned a valuable lesson.  <br> <br> <div style="CLEAR: both">Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT<br> Piano Tuner/Technician<br> Honolulu, HI<br> Author of <br> The Business of Piano Tuning<br> available from Potter Press<br> www.pianotuning.com</div> <br> <br> -----Original Message-----<br> From: Erwinspiano@aol.com<br> To: pianotech@ptg.org<br> Sent: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 5:36 pm<br> Subject: Re: steinway consignment<br> <br> <div id=AOLMsgPart_2_18a4f1f7-3991-4e87-b168-588630e2859b><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=4> Jon--------</FONT></FONT><FONT size=4>Dittos</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE> <div>                 Dale</div> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"> <BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2><FONT face=Arial color=#000000>What is the usual arrangement for doing a consignment sale. Private party that is. I would be selling the piano for the owner.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <div><br> </div> <div>5% minimum plus work needed to make it saleable. Consignment in a store</div> <div>would be 20 to 30 %, customer would pay moving exp.</div> <div><br> </div> <PRE>-- </PRE> <div><br> Regards,<br> <br> Jon Page</div> </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <div></div> <div> </div> </FONT><br> <br> <br> <div><FONT style="FONT: 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF; COLOR: black"> <HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px"> Check out AOL Money & Finance's list of the <A title=http://money.aol.com/special/hot-products-2007?NCID=aoltop00030000000001 href="http://money.aol.com/special/hot-products-2007?NCID=aoltop00030000000001" target=_blank>hottest products</A> and <A title=http://money.aol.com/top5/general/ways-you-are-wasting-money?NCID=aoltop00030000000002 href="http://money.aol.com/top5/general/ways-you-are-wasting-money?NCID=aoltop00030000000002" target=_blank>top money wasters</A> of 2007.</FONT></div> </div> <div class="AOLPromoFooter"> <hr style="margin-top:10px;" /> Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free <a href="http://o.aolcdn.com/cdn.webmail.aol.com/mailtour/aol/en-us/index.htm?ncid=AOLAOF00020000000970" target="_blank">AOL Mail</a>!<br/> </div>