<HTML><HTML> In a message dated 10/3/05 10:07:00 AM, jajones2@wisc.edu writes: <BLOCKQUOTE CITE STYLE="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px" TYPE="CITE">Charges $$$. My= lawyer charges for phone consult. Or, is it good will? No doubt I will be making a service call, so roll a few more $$ on the bill.? </BLOCKQUOTE> I would never charge anyone for advice given in a phone call.  And I h= appily give advice on the phone to anyone who calls.  Last week a woman called to tell me her keys were broken.  I asked if = all the broken keys were right in a row, and she said, "Yes".  I said,= it's probably a pencil that got stuck in there.  She laughed and said= , "A pencil!"  Then she started to look.  "I don't see anything = in there...wait a minute...I feel it!  There it is!  Man, you're= good!"  She still booked me to come and tune her piano, but I would n= ever think of adding any money to the bill for the phone advice.  For = that matter, I wouldn't charge her for removing a pencil, if all I had to do= was reach in there and take it out. But if I felt as if I were being taken advantage of somehow, like you appare= ntly do, then I simply would stop giving advice on the phone.  They can't make you do it. Tom Sivak Chicago</HTML>