<HTML>In a message dated 10/18/02 6:46:28 AM Central Daylight Time, mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Similar story. Lady I just helped buy a small Samick grand. Now she wants to sell her Story &Clark 1960s console. I asked her what she thought she might ask for it. "I was going to ask $2,000." Ya gotta wonder where someone gets a figure like that. I guess she can ask anything she wants! Terry Farrell </BLOCKQUOTE> Would you believe that some piano tuners actually give that kind of information. In St. Louis there was a guy who consistently told customers their pianos were worth at least twice as much as they were. He was a respected man, so most people took his word for it. There is also a rebuilder who tells customers their old pianos were worth much more than they really are, so that he could get them to spend more money on rebuilding their pianos. Customers would look at me with disbelief when I told them their piano was only worth $500, and not worth spending nay money on, after they were told it was worth $1000, and it would be worth $8000 if they would only spend $6000 to rebuild it. Wim </HTML>