[CAUT] All $teinway?

[David Love]

Yes.  The school agrees to only go through the dealer and the dealer agrees
to give them an "institutional" price when they buy.  

David Love
www.davidlovepianos.com


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Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 8:03 AM
To: pianotech at ptg.org; caut at ptg.org
Subject: [CAUT] All $teinway?

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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