[CAUT] Pricing of upright versus grand hammer installation

[Jeff Olson]

Jeesh.  This wasn't exactly the kind of thread I'd anticipated starting 
(many of us, I suspect, find the lack of government intrusion to be one of 
the perks of piano teching)....

:-(  Jeff
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ward & Probst" <wardprobst@nts-online.net>
To: "'College and University Technicians'" <caut@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 1:17 PM
Subject: RE: [CAUT] Pricing of upright versus grand hammer installation


> Fred,
> You are entitled to your opinion; just be aware it contradicts PTG's
> Antitrust Guidelines, the research I and others have done on the issue, 
> and
> the advice of every attorney we have consulted about it. To read the 2004
> Antritrust Guidelines go the members only section of the Piano Page and 
> open
> the Archive page, click on 2004 AntitrustPolicies.
> Sincerely,
> Dale
> Dale Probst, RPT
> Secretary/Treasurer
> Piano Technicians Guild
> sec@ptg.org
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Fred
> Sturm
> Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 12:29 PM
> To: College and University Technicians
> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Pricing of upright versus grand hammer installation
>
>
> On 4/9/05 8:30 PM, "Jim" <jim@pianoguy.com> wrote:
>
>> Why not get the PTG to investigate and report factually on how the A-T
>> legislation does relate to our profession.
>
> Amen!! We rely on a generic legal opinion developed for professional
> organizations - an opinion which may be valid for doctors, cpa's, lawyers
> and the like, as their professional organizations have almost all
> practitioners as members (thus are virtual monopolies) and are directly
> involved in certifications which are commonly required by law (you can't
> practice law without passing the bar exam, which is created and 
> administered
> by the ABA, for instance).
>    But the situation of PTG is SO different from these organizations that 
> I
> don't believe we need have the least bit of worry with respect to 
> anti-trust
> laws, regardless of decades of paranoia and commonly held belief. We are
> such a marginal profession, we probably don't even comprise a majority of
> those "practicing the profession (loosely defined)," and our one
> certification has no legal standing. How in the world can we "restrain
> trade?" (even if we weren't such a bunch of individualists, and could come
> to some sort of agreement as to prices). Regards, Fred Sturm University of
> New Mexico
>
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