<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div>To make it easy, paying a tech $ 250 for his after delivery services of a fully prepped grand, we deem fair and appropriate.</div><div>Those who don't agree with this can simply say "no"</div><div>Thank you to all those who have given us exceptional service in the past.</div><div>I appreciate working together with all PTG members to the benefit of our common customers and be, at same time fair to  you and all parties involved.</div><div>Now take me to jail for having said this….</div><div>Norbert</div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Floyd Gadd <<a href="mailto:fg@floydgadd.com">fg@floydgadd.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span> <<a href="mailto:fg@floydgadd.com">fg@floydgadd.com</a>>, <<a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Tue, 1 May 2012 22:30:16 -0500<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> <<a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: [pianotech] Estimated fees<br></div><div><br></div><div> <title></title> <style type="text/css"> body { font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; color: black; background-color: white; } </style> <div> <div>I understand that we as technicians cannot discuss our prices here.  But let's go a little easier on Norbert.  He is not a technician.  He is a customer.  He sells pianos, some very fine ones (I'm in Manitoba, he's on the west coast, and I tune for one of his customers!) and he is asking what is fair to offer a tech for a defined body of work.</div> <div> </div> <div>Now I know we can't give him an answer.  But as a customer, I really doubt that he is crossing the line of the anti-trust issue.  And we don't have to either, as long as we graciously decline to answer him in this forum.</div> <div> </div> <div>Floyd Gadd</div> <div>Manitoba Chapter</div> </div></div></span></body></html>