<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Paul T Williams <<a href="mailto:pwilliams4@unlnotes.unl.edu">pwilliams4@unlnotes.unl.edu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">John,</font>
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<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Do you charge a minimum fee for those
few pianos that nothing can be done? Especially if far from home.... Does
the Maytag man charge you when he/she comes and the dishwasher is shot
and you'll have to buy another? You should by all means charge something
for your efforts, otherwise, you're just cheating yourself!</font> </blockquote></div><div><br></div><div> Paul,</div><div><br></div><div>Yes, I do charge for service calls. I suppose my question is really about my <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">judgment</span> concerning the string splice attempts. Maybe another way to ask the question is this: Was it right for me to <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">try</span> splicing, and/or was it anything <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">I did </span>that might have caused the knot to break? At this point, I don't think it was anything I did. However, I wanted to be fair to the customer. </div>
<div><br></div><div>On the way home. I was trying to think of other examples where I would be the customer, and another person would be the technician. I thought of my mechanic... if he tried to fix something on my car that didn't work, I think I would be grateful for the attempt. However, I am a "fellow technician" in a sense, so I understand that kind of thing. :-)</div>
<br>-- <br>JF