Referral Fees

[Farrell]

Sure you can reply! But reply again. I don't understand what happened here.
Did the other guy do ALL the work? What do you mean he could have done both
his job and mine for the refinishing job? And then be on the lookout for
what? I don't get it. But I may just be dense. Please explain, as I do wish
to understand. Thanks

Terry Farrell
Piano Tuning & Service
Tampa, Florida
mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "George" <geotak@minet.ca>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 8:49 PM
Subject: Re: Referral Fees


> Terry,
> I am not sure if I should write to the listserv since I am not a PTG
> member.  I agree to some sort of referral fee for any recommendation.
> About 30 years ago, when I was a beginner, one of my costumer wanted to do
> some major repairs on his piano refinishing included.  Since I am not a
> furniture refinisher, I recommended my costumer to a colleague of mine who
> had a complete refinishing section in his piano shop. ( For information
> purposes he was a piano rebuilder with a complete shop).  When he returned
> the piano to my costumer with a very beautiful piano a got paid he said he
> could have done both his job and mine for the refinishing job.
> That was two recommendation to this fellow from; the first and last.
> I thought I mention this to all sincere technicians to be on the lookout
> when referring someone.
> George Takats
> retired technician
>
> At 06:32 PM 2/7/01 -0500, you wrote:
> >This post is related to Howard's recent post. Some techs like a lot of
shop
> >work and some don't. Some tune almost exclusively. They obviously run
into
> >many pianos that could use major regulation, action rebuilding, bridge
> >repairs, restringing, rebuilding, etc.
> >
> >If a tech called me up and said that he/she had a customer with a piano
that
> >needs bridge work, restringing and a new pinblock - let's just say $3,000
> >worth of work - it would seem appropriate to me to work out some type of
> >referral fee for this type of work. I get what I want (shop work), the
other
> >tech gets a happy customer and a better piano to tune.
> >
> >I would think a referral fee would entice those non-shop oriented techs
into
> >pursuing these types of arrangements. Does anyone have any experience
with
> >this type of thing. I just did a bridge repair for another tech and gave
him
> >10% of the job fee. Any thoughts?
> >
> >Terry Farrell
> >Piano Tuning & Service
> >Tampa, Florida
> >mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com
>
>