Dear peggy... perhaps you misinterpret the discussion on charging for overhead. When you buy a blouse from Walmart, you are paying for their "overhead" the lease, the lawyers, the snow being shoveled, the hydro, the manager's salary, the clerks health plan etc etc. All these things are 'overhead' They are apportioned out to everything you buy and figure into the price. What they DON'T do is charge you $12 for the blouse, and $1.25 for the delivery cost of getting the blouse from the blouse factory to you,.... unlike the misleading prices quoted by car dealers.... but that's another soapbox A piano tuner is not ( usually ) a philanthopist. I know there are many times I have helped out seniors, yuong families with 'adjusted' prices, as have many of my fellow tuners, but generally one has to make a living by charging a fair price. I guess this is the way it's done. I hope you'll not neglect your poor piano due to your frustration with our attempts to make a living. If you do, we know who you are and where you live and you might get a visit from the ( oh no!! ) P.A.S. The Piano Aid Society, or the ASPCP, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Pianos!!!! you've been warned!!!!! -----Original Message----- From: Peggy C. Bie <peggyb@gate.net> To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org> Date: Tuesday, May 05, 1998 6:14 PM Subject: Re: charging for service >I am a visually disabled elderly widow. Say I have a problem with my piano or >organ. I have no income but a measly govt pension for disability. I call you >and need a screw tightened. Since I am visually impaired I can't see the slot >in the screw. I ask for help. In order to get it (I live alone, no husband >or kids or greedy selfish neighbors will help), I should pay you for your >vacation, for your office expenses, for your overhead, for your driving to 200 >other customers, etc ad nauseum. God free me from contacting you. What >happened to "love your neighbor"? Do you assume I have savings or the ability >to earn an income? I not only can't afford you, I don't want you. I'd rather >do without. Poor young mothers, abandoned by men, can't afford day care and >music lessons, much less instruments or instrument repaired. Maybe I should >learn to hate music. Maybe I should hate our greedy society. Why should any >customer pay you for your overhead? I WILL NOT. In fact, I don't even want >to know you. May God have mercy on your souls, blood-suckers. >Peggy C. Bie >"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." -Anais Nin >http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/1095 >
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