Symphony Piano Sale

[Carl Meyer]

Reminds me of an old saying I use to insult my friends.

If a fool and his money are soon parted, who got yours??

Carl Meyer  Assoc. PTG
Santa Clara, California
cmpiano@attbi.com 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Newell" <gnewell@ameritech.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 4:05 PM
Subject: Re: Symphony Piano Sale


> As long as it is successful it never will.
> 
> Greg
> 
> ROBOTUNER@AOL.COM wrote:
> 
> >   Thanks for the funny article about piano sales.We do that up here in Wash
> > DC,but they are called University Sales.There seems to be some competition
> > amoung two of our local dealers.(One of which I have been employed by for 22
> > years)Neither one actually puts their name on any of the advertiseing.The
> > thing really gets us in service is that our own company doesn't tell us about
> > the event untill less than a week before.I think they are afraid of our
> > competition getting wind of our sale and they can start a counter sale.This
> > of course causes our prep. tuners to rush and prepare low end "Kiwis",
> > "Kokler and Crumbles"and a few Steenbergs and Baastons for the
> > selection.Again these were all supposedly proffesionally mantained at the
> > school.We know that most of them come from a warehouse we keep surplus
> > units.They are also delivered directly from the school with very little
> > prep.Then to top it off the piano is sold without a free tuning(why should it
> > need it if it has been professionally maintained?)So when I see them in the
> > field six months later I get to practice my under an hour pitch raise.Did I
> > forget to mention that the customers are given a coupon good for a $50.00
> > tuning within six months! I sure hope this trend sees a quick end very soon.
> >
> 
> --
> Greg Newell
> mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net
> 
>