What we charge? (Shuush!)

[Avery Todd]

Bill,

    Just FYI, my basic fee is $75.00 plus, depending on the circumstances you
mentioned: distance, pitch raise or not, repairs, etc.

Avery (in Houston)

At 07:34 PM 01/28/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Interesting thread.
>
>Somebody asked what people charge for a tuning , and the only people who
>respond with a dollar figure were two Canadians, a guy in New Zealand, and
>somebody in Austria. I am sure this will be very useful to the person posing
>the question if he ever tunes in Canada, Austria, or New Zealand.
>
>HOLD ON!  ---I just re-read the responses and saw that Brian Trout actually
>did answer the question of what he charges. Congratulations  to this fellow,
>who actually has some guts, and to anyone else who answered the question with
>a dollar figure.
>
>Seems like Big Brother has got the Americans cowed. (To their credit, they
>did turn the thread discussion to one of the unfairness of sales tax and to
>how much plumbers charge. )
>
>Bill Simon
>Phoenix.
>
>P.S. - I do not have a set fee.  It starts at $55.00 and varies with distance
>to piano, type of piano, when last tuned, on a week-end or not,
>inconvenience, if it is in a church, etc. Not much of a conspiracy there, Big
>Brother.