Been reading many of these posts and really guys... I have a hard time why so many of you seem to be selling yourself so cheap. 85 bucks for an hours work ?? Who does that besides piano techs ? Sounds more reminiscent of what a contractor might pay some high school kid to do the yard work he's got as part of some landscaping deal. I can understand perhaps an inexperienced tuner doing store tunings and grandma's Best-to-Toss for that kind of money in order to build up experience... but guys in the business for 25 + years should be ready to pump up the volume quite a bit. If you get less work... and make the same or just a bit more... and have more interesting work in the process... well hey... thats the idea isn't it ? My standard price over here is 1150 NOK + 25 % VAT. Thats roughly 210 dollars plus the VAT. That covers an hour and a half of work. I have all the work I can do and more. One thing I noticed right off the bat a few years back when I finally decided to stop tuning for peanuts... Interesting customers... the ones with good pianos who actually care a bit about them and are willing to take a bit of care for them, choose the guy who charges the most when they are at all in doubt. Once you have such a customer.... he/she is yours to loose. Do a bang up job of it for those 200 greenbacks and they will most definitely call you back. ALTME. Cheers RicB
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