Greetings,
I just had a customer call, wanting to sell her 7 year old Steinway
upright. She had already spoken to the local Steinway dealer, who offered to
take in on consignment for 50% of the selling price.
I suggested that she call one of our "All Steinway" schools to see if
they were interested, and she responded that she had already done that and
was told that the school had signed a contract that stipulated that they
couldn't purchase pianos from anyone but the dealer.
Is this normal? Seems that a school would be crazy to both forego the
ability to acquire instruments from other sources and completely lose their
bargaining power! Anybody heard of this clause in the "All Steinway"
designation?
Regards,
Ed Foote RPT
http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html
www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html
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