Pricing Pinblock Treatments

[vince mrykalo]

It takes attending conventions, trying things out, getting it down to a science, and guaranteeing a certain results before you do it for a customer.  I charge the cost of 4 tunings to do it. They are paying for knowledge gained from time and money spent.  That's a bargain.  Yes, I back up my work.


> On 7/20/07, David Nereson  wrote:
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>> I'm wondering what folks out there are charging, typically, for CA 
>> treating
>> an upright block, maybe expressed as a percent of tuning fee or hourly
>> rates.
>>
>> Also, are you offering a warrantee?
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>>
>> Alan Barnard
>>  Salem, MO
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>>
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>> I charged $40 once, then a separate fee for the tuning.  There's a tech
>> around here who charges $650  [sic] !!  I don't know how he justifies 
>> that
>> except for telling the customer that the old way was to replace the
>> pinblock, re-pin, and restring for $2500 or so, after which $650 sounds
>> "dirt cheap" to them, he says.  I know I'd have an extremely 
>> difficult time
>> trying to sell the job for any more than about $200 tops.
>>
>>             --David Nereson, RPT

 

      Vince Mrykalo RPT MPT
  University of Utah
   
  "Minél több a változás, annál nagyobb az állandoság"
   
  The more I learn, the less I know.
   
  www.mrykalopiano.com




       
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