----- Original Message ----- From: <Motspheres@AOL.COM> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 4:15 PM Subject: Re: strange requests > Larry: > Perhaps a few questions first. What is your relationship to the owner of the > store? Did he request this appraisal from you? Did he pay you for your > appraisal? If he paid for the appraisal, then your opinion is owned by him> > Now if there was no payment involved, and the opinion was verbal, > conversational and uncontracted, the question really resolves down to who you > represent> Paul Revenko-Jones Folks, Although it is not raised often, a case for some type of estopple could be raised. That's where a party relies upon the advice of an expert in some field and suffers a lose subsequently due to some ineptness on the part of the expert...piano technician in this case. That's why Dr's, lawyers, etc., must be careful when giving casual advice even when they're not compensated. So basically an expert can be held liable for his advice within the realm of his field. If a Dr. says that the land you want to buy looks like a great buy and nothing could go wrong then turns out to be a swamp half the year, well he's not liable for his opinion. Another great reason to charge for any service you perform at any time. Helps pay for liability insurance premiums and the lawyer you'll have to hire. :-) Joseph Alkana
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