<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" = http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.3019.2500" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi All,</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> What about the situation with a = complete action rebuild? 90% of the action is yours if you bought the parts with = your money, but I doubt the courts would look at it that way.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mike</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Mike McCoy RPT<BR>So Central Pa Chapter 170 & SEPA 190 PTG<BR>Langhorne, Pa<BR><A href="mailto:mjmccoyrpt@earthlink.net">Mailto:mjmccoyrpt@earthlink.net<= /A><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: = 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A href="mailto:philromano@attglobal.net" title=philromano@attglobal.net>philromano@attglobal.net</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org" title=pianotech@ptg.org>pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, June 29, 2001 = 4:58 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: You people are = staring to scare me.</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Joe,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In both of these situations I think = you should consider yourself lucky that the client didn't have you arrested. = While I totally agree that you were within your rights, the law tends to look = at these things differently. The property was not yours to take. I know (from experience) that not being paid for your labor feels just like theft, = your response to your clients was no better than their inaction to pay = you.There are other avenues for collecting accounts receivable that probably = should have been investigated first.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Phil Romano</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Myrtle Beach, SC</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A href="mailto:JosephB33@AOL.COM" title=JosephB33@AOL.COM>JosephB33@AOL.COM</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org" title=pianotech@ptg.org>pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, June 29, 2001 = 3:52 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: You people are = staring to scare me.</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT size=2>Ok... I'm = reluctant to share this story as you may think me immature but I <BR>will do = it anyway. <BR><BR>I've had 2 problems with people that wouldn't pay. =  One was a church and the <BR>second a nightclub. <BR><BR>For the church, = after the work was completed, they refused to return my calls <BR>and = letters.  I paid them a visit one afternoon and removed the middle two <BR>octaves of keys from the keyboard.  The pastor called me... = needless to say <BR>he was irate.  Unfortunately this went = nowhere. I still have the keys in my <BR>shop, but it is a fun story to tell. <BR><BR>The second one was more productive.  In the same = fashion, I did a tuning for <BR>a local night club.  After  2 months of = waiting for payments and repeatedly <BR>hearing "the check is in the mail" I = paid them a visit and removed their <BR>entire action from the piano. =  Two days later I received a frantic call that <BR>the piano wasn't = working.  I informed them why.  I informed them that they <BR>could = either come pick the action up from my shop or I could return it for an <BR>additional $60 service charge.  We compromised on a $45 = service charge, but <BR>they got their action back and I got paid. = <BR><BR>Again, these probably demonstrate my horrible immaturity, but when they so <BR>blatantly lie to me and refuse to cooperate a little = "retribution" is in <BR>order. <BR><BR>Joe <BR>InTune Piano Service</FONT> </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>