<HTML><BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff">In a message dated 10/9/02 3:58:30 PM Central Daylight Time, Wimblees@aol.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">The supplies are $4000. Now, subtract from the $11,000 the cost of your shop, electricity, insurance, etc., for the year it takes you to work on the piano and to sell it. Also subtract the cost of miscellaneous supplies, telephone, moving, and other miscellaneous expenses, and what do you get? Yes, you're making money, but not as much as you think you do. </BLOCKQUOTE> Wim, I have just been speaking in round figures, of course we never make as much as we think.  If you break it down, the supplies, moving and most miscellanious expenses will be the same for my piano or a customers.  The only difference is the amount of time the piano is in the shop.   If you divide the floor space and the cost of overhead between the number of pianos I have in my shop it is not a very high number perhaps a few hundred dollars. Extra expenses such as advertising, phone and potential customer time still only add minimally.  To be on the high side lets say it costs me an extra $1000, that still means I made an extra $6k speculating.  Certainly worth it to me! David Koelzer Vintage Pianos DFW</HTML>