Do you mean taking a chance on not getting paid or something else. Though not often, I've had this happen as well. Usually, if someone is willing to leave me a key without having met me it's a referral and not a random shot out of the phone book. I've never had a problem getting paid. In such cases I always get a phone number where they can be reached in the event I find something with the piano that needs doing above and beyond what I expected. My first time customer fees are generally scheduled as longer appointments (and a bit more) so they've already had the price outlined. Though this arrangement is not typical I don't see any reason to worry about it. Unless, of course, they are in the habit of leaving expensive watches lying around. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Terry Farrell Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2009 2:11 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] a new one for me Wow. IMHO, you are really taking a chance. If it is a long time customer, maybe not so big a deal. One time I tuned a piano for a new customer and they were not home - they left a key outside for me and mailed me a check - I never saw anyone. I felt VERY uncomfortable with that arrangement - not sure why I actually went through with it - I'll never do that again. Just seems way too much chance of problems. Terry Farrell On Aug 21, 2009, at 8:07 PM, Qshooterq at aol.com wrote: 20% of my tunings are done with no one home, and most of those with no one to greet me. Even some brand new customers. ---Tom Gorley -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090822/1e296108/attachment.htm>
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