piano tuning- fickle church accounts

[justpianos at our.net.au]

Have a look on you watch, Joe.




> Hi Conrad,
> What is the date?
> Joe Goss RPT
> Mother Goose Tools
> imatunr at srvinet.com
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Conrad Hoffsommer" <hoffsoco at luther.edu>
> To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 7:29 AM
> Subject: RE : piano tuning- fickle church accounts
>
>
> At 08:47 AM 11/1/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>>Reminds me of one thing:  They only value your work as much as they pay
>>for it. I don't think it's a good idea to give either your work or supply
>>instruments at no cost. There should always be a fee. You can discount it
>>if you want, but if you give it away, customers will think it's not worth
> much.
>>
>>My 2 canadian pennies,
>>
>>Marcel Carey, RPT
>>Sherbrooke, QC
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> I concur and add my old 2¢.
>
> I, too, used to do pro bono work at my own church and gave discounts to
> churchs, generally. Confusion grew on all sides as to what my rates
> actually were.
>
> I recall being almost at the point of eliminating discounts just on the
> theory that I didn't do any less work at the churches, and frequently
> more!  One thing which finally pushed me over was getting to a church
> organist's home to tune her piano and seeing a check for the discounted
> church amount waiting on the piano (she wasn't home).
>
> I obviously hadn't indicated the discount on the church invoice, and she
> saw it... and assumed...
>
> Conrad
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