Ethics for parsimonious customers

[piano57 at insightbb.com]

See, I'm no naive, I didn't even think of this!  Good advice, Jon.
 
Barbara Richmond, RPT


----- Original Message -----
From: Jon Page <jonpage at comcast.net>
Date: Wednesday, July 4, 2007 22:17
Subject: Ethics for parsimonious customers
To: pianotech at ptg.org

> You need to contact the bride and arrange payment.  Don't 
> rely on the
> skin-flints to handle your monetary compensation.
> 
> Chances are that the piano is flat since the owners are tight 
> with a penny.
> A pitch raise or two might be in order and you need to spell it 
> out 
> to the bride
> or have a meeting of the minds as who pays for what service.
> 
> I've been stuck between the caterer and the father of the bride before
> and request payment up front now with a disclaimer of tuning 
> performancecontingent on condition of the piano. I'll do what I 
> can for the agreed upon
> price but without authorization on inspection I won't left 
> holding the bag.
> 
> I prefer to rent out a piano of mine.
> -- 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jon Page
> 
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