Hi Ed: I have received tips from 3 different people in 55 years. One was a $200 tip on a $3300 rebuild of a Vose & Sons upright. This was from my High School Class sponsor. 45 years after graduation. Another customer always writes the check for $5 or $10 more than my bill. When I raised my price up to $75 she did not add extra that time. The other time was when I went to a Catholic church at 6:30 on a New Years Eve to tune the piano for a small import Band which was performing that night. I made out the bill for $80, they gave me $100 cash. I've never felt like turning down a tip, but it is quite unusual to get one. Jim Coleman, Sr. On Fri, 16 Jan 1998, A440A wrote: > Les writes: > <<It's the customer > who pays the bill without quibbling and then includes a 10% (or more) cash > tip who gets remembered. Actually, I remember quite a few!>> > > I have heard of this, but to tell you the truth, I have never gotten a > cash tip for my piano work ! Not once in over 20 years. ( well, once, a guy > told me to keep the change ($6) out of a $100 bill. > 90% of my customers have been with me for at least 10 years, and my prices > have never been "competitive".................... > How many of y'all get tips, over and above your bill? > Regards, > Ed Foote > >Wondering about money and people, and life, and how much more coffee I really > can drink on a rainy, cold, Nashville morning, ( all of God's weather is > perfect!)< > >
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