[CAUT] Pricing of upright versus grand hammer installation

[Jim]

Hi Jeff . .

I am continually amazed at my neighbours to the south who are absolutely 
paranoid
about discussing prices, either for services, parts or instruments . .

As I recall from high-school history, the anti trust legislation was put in 
place to prohibit huge steel companies from collectively elevating prices . 
. .  not to deal with  a bunch of piano tuners from talking about their 
businesses . .

Look around the net . . prices abound, in the papers, in flyers that come to 
your doors etc etc . .

What are you so afraid of . .  are we this nervous in other countries.?
I have NEVER read on this group, in the past ten years anyone who was 
attempting to establish
minimum prices for any service . .  then we'd sound like  . .  well . .  a 
union ???

Why not get the PTG to investigate and report factually on how the A-T 
legislation does relate to
our profession.

Interested in reactions from all countries . .

lower priced in Canada  $ 85.00CDN for a tuning, because that's what the 
market will stand.


Jim Kinnear
"A man is about as big as the things that make him angry." -- Winston 
Churchill


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Olson" <jlolson@cal.net>
To: "College and University Technicians" <caut@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2005 9:39 PM
Subject: [CAUT] Pricing of upright versus grand hammer installation


> No need to name specific prices -- which would doubtless violate some 
> obscure anti-trust law -- I'm just interested in what people here think 
> the "basic" price differential should be between installing grand and 
> upright hammers, based on the respective labor typically necessary for the 
> two (apart from the obvious purchase differential).
>
> After all these years, the question struck me with sudden force when I 
> happened to undertake simultaneously three hammer hanging projects of 
> each -- hammering home, so to speak, the relative difference in effort 
> required.
>
> Best,
>
> JeffO
>
>
>
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