hr rate; complete regulation of the grand piano

[Avery Todd]

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At 06:12 PM 7/17/04, you wrote:
>It takes the best/busiest tech in your area to raise his prices and the
>others will follow.   Is that you?

Best? Who knows? I have to be pretty good for the university job I have
but there are others who are also very good. I'm definitely not the
busiest, if you're referring to in-home type clients because I simply
don't have the time to do that much off-campus work.

>Are you raising every year?

No, but I go up often enough to stay pretty close to the highest priced
techs in town.

>David I.

Avery

>----- Original message ---------------------------------------->
>From: Avery Todd <avery@ev1.net>
>To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Received: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 15:58:03 -0500
>Subject: Re: hr rate; complete regulation of the grand piano
>
> >Hi Patrick,
>
> >I'm like a lot of techs, I have a hard time raising my prices! :-)
> >But in spite of that, I'm still on the high end of the prices here
> >in Houston!
>
> >Avery
>
> >At 10:28 AM 7/17/04, you wrote:
>
> >>On Jul 17, 2004, at 3:49 AM, Avery Todd wrote:
> >>
> >>>  Dale,
> >>>
> >>>  I thought I was charging "pretty" close to what I should be. Considering
> >>>  I also have a full-time "salary" type job.
> >>
> >>Umm, what's that got to do with it? Unless perhaps all your private work
> >>is at venues (community concerts, your church denomination) for which you
> >>feel an overwhelming altruistic urge to subsidize the arts or religion?
> >>Seems to me your non-salaried work should be in your "overtime zone," not
> >>the "below the market" zone.
> >>
> >>>  Am I wrong?
> >>
> >>Altruism is a noble virtue.
> >>We're all free to set our prices where we wish. I know it's not easy for
> >>me to raise my own prices. We ought not sell ourselves short.
> >>
> >>Patrick Draine
> >>in the expensive Northeast (hey did you know plywood prices went up 53%
> >>this past year?)
> >>
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