[pianotech] Saturday Appointments

[David Ilvedson]

Ok, Ok...we won't come to Hawaii and try to start up a business...

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: wimblees at aol.com
To: ed440 at mindspring.com; pianotech at ptg.org
Received: 8/1/2009 11:19:20 AM
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Saturday Appointments


>I have always tuned on Saturdays. Now that I'm in Hawaii, and need all the business 
>I can get, I work 6 days a week. (Well, I'm available to work 6 days, but, 
>unfortunately, there are week days when?I don't have appointments.) But when I 
>was in St. Louis, I took Wednesday afternoon off. I just put a line through my 
>appointment book, and just didn't schedule any?tunings.?Sometimes?I would do 
>paper work or work on an action. But most of the time I?went out with my wife, 
>and/or the kids. ?

>Wim

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ed Sutton <ed440 at mindspring.com>
>To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
>Sent: Sat, Aug 1, 2009 5:02 am
>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.