outrageous charges--estimates

[Richard Brekne]

Wim... what can I say... extremly well put !!

big applause !!


Wimblees@AOL.COM wrote:

> In a message dated 3/18/00 8:34:10 PM !!!First Boot!!!, richardb@c2i.net
> writes:
>
> << This I do not subscribe to... This has nothing to do with the free market,
>  unless one is totally devoid of morals. If you take an old ladys Steinway for
>  500 knowing its worth 5000... thats about as fraudulant as it gets.. and
>  personally I hope, from time to time, that the Christians of the world are
> right
>  about at least one thing... namely that there is a heaven and hell, and that
>  such folks will find their way to the appropriate elevators when the time
> comes.
>
>  A free market is an honest one. Dishonesty falls into another catagory.
>
>  Robert Morss wrote:
>
>  > >If I sold my $5000 used Honda to some old lady that didn't
>  > >know better at a 5000% mark up for $250,000
>  > >is that not fraud, and have some legal ramifications?
>  > >$440 for 16 tuning pins for parts only???
>  > >Is there no accountability in this business.
>  > >
>  > >   David Renaud
>  >
>  > It is called the free market. If the same old lady is selling her Steinway
>  > grand for $500 and you come to buy it, are you committing fraud if you
> don't
>  > tell her it actually has a market value of $5000?
>  >
>  > Robert Morss RPT
>  > Greenwich, CT
>
>  --
>  Richard Brekne
>  Associate PTG, N.P.T.F.
>  Bergen, Norway
>   >>
>
> I would like to go one step further that what Richard just said. Not only is
> it dishonest, it would be against the Mission and Principles of the PTG,
> where we are to "always aim to provide service in an ethical way, keeping the
> piano user's needs and best interest uppermost." (Art. I, Sec. B.6. PTG
> Bylaws.)
>
> Wim

--
Richard Brekne
Associate PTG, N.P.T.F.
Bergen, Norway