Ed, I don't work on Saturdays or after 5 pm except for an emergency at a church or for a performance. I remember when I lived in New York I got a call from Jilly's (the club where Sinatra frequent and sometimes sing). They said the needed the piano tuned that nights' performance. At the time my rate was $50. I said I would do it for $100 plus dinner for two. I told my wife to get dressed......... we were going out for a fine dinner. True story. Al G From: Ed Sutton Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 11:02 AM To: Pianotech List Subject: [pianotech] Saturday Appointments I'm considering establishing a policy of "No Saturday Appointments." It began as a favor to a customer who lived nearby, when they both began working away from home weekdays. Once you make a Saturday appointment, you have a customer who will demand Saturday only appointments, and it doesn't take very many of those to claim most (soon all) available Saturdays. How have others dealt with this? Ed S. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090801/1538ce0b/attachment.htm>
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