Tom, Did you really drive those kind of miles? I remember in my first year I would drive all over NW North Dakota and be gone for a week at a time. Brings a smile to my face to remember those farms and the keytop job I did up in a two-bit hotel. But I was young, single and fancy free and I had the world by the tail. Now I'm middle-aged, married and the fancy ain't free anymore! David I. *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 6/5/01 at 10:07 PM Tom Cole wrote: >pianolover 88 wrote: >> >> On a lighter note, If a customer failed to show up for a tuning >> appointment, would you charge her mileage to make a second trip? I >> did. >> >> Terry Peterson >> Precision Piano Service >> Torrance, CA > >Terry, > >You say you charged for the mileage but not for the time lost (or >spent)? You've just lost a tuning charge (let's call it $100) and now >you're going to nick 'em for five or ten bucks? I know that gas prices >are going up. So what do you charge for mileage? > >Everyone's policy is different, no right or wrong about it. The main >thing is that the customer knows in advance what you charge for, whether >there is a missed appointment fee, mileage, whatever. > >Now, if the customer was in the _Valley_ and I had to drive the 405 in >stop-and-go traffic, yeah, I'd charge them plenty. El Segundo, no, I'd >let 'em slide. > >:-) > >Tom Cole >formerly of The Valley
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