I'm with you William. I up my hourly rate for squares, players, and cleaning piano interiors. I have a flat fee for tuning most pianos, but I charge by the hour for squares and players. Terry Farrell On Jun 30, 2010, at 4:36 PM, William R. Monroe wrote: > My take, > > If you feel a job causes you more work (physical, mental or > otherwise) and you feel inclined to charge more, do so. No one > forces clients to use any one of us and if we have a distaste for a > particular job, we are free to decide whether to take it or not or, > whether to charge more or not. In a case like that, I would offer to > my client that they may be able to find someone to do it for less, > but that is my fee. Charging more, purposefully, does not equate to > gouging. Charging more arbitrarily does. > > Wim, getting sore playing racqutball is totally unrelated to work. > There are those that suggest that tuning a square actually is. > > William R Monroe > > > William R. Monroe, RPT > A440-William R Monroe Piano Services, Inc. > 314 E. Church St. > Belleville, WI 53508 > 608-215-3250 > www.a440piano.net > > On Jun 30, 2010, at 9:40 AM, tnrwim at aol.com wrote: > >> >> YES! Even squares, for a nominal extra fee to pay for my aching >> back after ward! >> I'm sorry, Mike, but this, in my opinion, is not ethical. It's not >> your customer's fault that you have a bad back. That's your >> problem. Either put up with it, or don't accept the work. >> >> On occasion, after playing a hard couple of rounds of racquet ball, >> my shoulder aches so much I can hardly lift my arm above my >> shoulder. But I don't charge my customer extra because of that. >> >> You can charge your customer extra because it takes longer to tune >> the piano because the pins are in the back and all the other >> unusual techniques you have to use to tune the thing. But you >> should not charge extra because it hurts your back. >> >> Just my 2 cents worth. >> >> Wim >> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100630/56977fb4/attachment-0001.htm>
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