[CAUT] (OT) Job Available

[Joe And Penny Goss]

Joe Goss RPT
Mother Goose Tools
imatunr at srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Porritt, David" <dporritt at mail.smu.edu>
To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 9:52 AM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] (OT) Job Available


> Tim:
> 
> You're right.  If there were no one else in Dallas but me I'm sure I
> could get $1,000 per tuning but I think congress would start looking at
> a windfall profits tax for me as they should be doing with oil companies
> now (IMHO).
> 
> dave
> 
> David M. Porritt
> dporritt at smu.edu
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of
> Tim Geinert
> Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 10:03 AM
> To: College and University Technicians
> Subject: Re: [CAUT] (OT) Job Available
> 
> At some level I know that some of what Ed says is right, but I don't
> believe 
> it is an absolute.  Especially in  this scenario(Katrina, people moving 
> around, etc), and in some others as well, to push the market to whatever
> it 
> can possibly bear pushes past the truth of knowing you are worth what
> you 
> are charging to outright arrogance and profiteering and immorality.  It 
> can't ever be right to kick someone when they are down just because you
> can!
> 
> Good luck, Lance!
> 
> Tim G.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <A440A at aol.com>
> To: <caut at ptg.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 9:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [CAUT] (OT) Job Available
> 
> 
> > Lance writes:
> >
> > <<  I need three
> > of me.  Our tuning fees range $100-135 and I have more work than two
> > more techs could handle.  >>
> >
> > Greetings,
> >    If the phone isn't ringing, the prices are too high, (or quality is
> too
> > low).  If you are booked more than three weeks in advance, there is 
> > something
> > else going on.    It doesn't matter what the price is, if a tech is 
> > turning
> > down tunings for lack of time, they are underpriced!
> > Regards,
> >
> > Ed Foote RPT
> > http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html
> > www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html
> > 
> 
>