[pianotech] basic or full service

[David Love]

I suppose it is, this is not my practice.  The person I know who does this
is not a beginning tech, quite the opposite.  Anyway, it's a free market
economy, one is allowed to do promotionals in order to try and gain business
as you see fit.  It's not unethical.  Anytime you have a new customer they
likely were someone else's before that, unless they just moved to the area
or just bought their first piano.  I don't know what you mean by "is
different".  

David Love
www.davidlovepianos.com


-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of David Ilvedson
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 11:47 AM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] basic or full service

But the next service is at the usual fee?   So the beginner tech who has few
customers, few skills, but is considerably cheaper and attempts to get other
technicians clients with lower fee is different?  

David Ilvedson
Pacifica, CA

On Mar 12, 2010, at 8:37 AM, "David Love" <davidlovepianos at comcast.net>
wrote:

Why is that unethical?  I don't do it but I understand the logic.  It's not
bait and switch.  That's when you get someone in the door on the promise of
a low price and then try and sell them something for a higher price.
There's no switch here.  You offer a discount to try your service and you
stick by the promised fee.  The idea is that people tend to stay with what's
familiar unless they are incentivized into trying something new.  

David Love
www.davidlovepianos.com