Attitudes and a question...

[James Grebe]

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> From: John Musselwhite <musselj@cadvision.com>
> To: pianotech@byu.edu
> Subject: Re: Attitudes and a question...
> Date: Tuesday, March 25, 1997 7:11 PM
>
> At 09:29 AM 3/25/97 -0500, Les wrote:
>
> >"someone else". The list dried up almost overnight. Perplexed Scott
start-
> >ed asking some questions and guess what? You got it! "H" had moved back
> >into the area, had contacted every customer on the list and told them
> >that he would once again be taking over the tuning work. When Scott con-
> >fronted "H" face to face, "H" only comment was "Hey, I've got to make a
> >living, too!" I advised Scott to sue, but I don't think he ever did. In-
>
> A solution to that for those considering this is to ensure that the
seller
> includes a Notarized bond not to take up a piano service practice in the
> same area (or even the same state) for a period of years.
>
> He could have sued, but it wouldn't have done him much good if all he
bought
> were a bunch of names... and at that price too!
>
>
> John Musselwhite, RPT
> Calgary, Alberta Canada
> musselj@cadvision.com
>
> Dear John,
	My wife is a chiropractor and many practices are sold like this.  They
sign a non-compete clause contract for the area and an amount of time.
Generally she says it is really unenforcable while being very expensive to
persue.
James Grebe from St. louis
pianoman@inlink.com