<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4611.1300" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <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="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=JosephB33@AOL.COM href="mailto:JosephB33@AOL.COM">JosephB33@AOL.COM</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto: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></BODY></HTML>