Even if the customer is wrong......they are right.

This RPT - non PTG member feud is getting old. We should all put our efforts into promoting the piano instead.

You are mostly right, but it's one of those love triangle things . . .

The dealer is the manufacturer's true customer. Yet the warranty specifies a responsibility between the manufacturer and the dealer's customer, the end owner of the instrument.

As with love triangles, it can get complicated. . .

For this current complaint Rod, yes, I am attempting to do the correct thing. I am discovering to my surprise as I go, that previous examples of this technicians going back more than a decade have not been dealt with by chapter members; Members who clearly have very good examples of sub-standard work.

I understand there is evidence locally that this technician messed up some instruments you and your late father rebuilt more than a decade ago.

The Bosie photos were taken 5 years ago on July 14 2007. We are all reasonable people here. I don’t believe anyone can look at these photos and see satisfactory work completed.

Technical expertise

My observation to the local chapter members is really a question; how much is enough before all concerned members stand up and say “excuse us but this is not right”?
Without this technician being scrutinized by his peers, this is the result we have today.



Apparently, local members are not willing to root out the hacks, as I have discovered. I have found evidence of this kind of work by this fellow going back more than a decade. This current issue is only 2 weeks old. I am working on this myself and I am not a member of anything except the human race.

Jean and Bob,

There is no one angry. There is no vendetta. There is no member versus non-member feud. As Russell Kassman appropriately stated on the previous page in an excellent posting this kind of thing hurts the industry for all of us. Locally, this hurts technicians of all walks of life, PTG member or non-member.

I am making observations for public discussion. Is this not the function of a forum, to debate, to disagree respectfully, to come to a resolution of some sort, or agree to disagree?
I think we can all agree to a certain extent that the manufacturer did not support the proper people in this equation. I fully understand there are some who would not agree with this assessment.

I have separated this technicians various claims on his invoice and had them peer-reviewed by the tech forum. I revealed each aspect of his claims separately in separate threads so as to have each issue dealt with individually.

I intentionally did not link them together so that members commenting about one thread were not influenced by the other.
I linked all of them together here in this thread.

Synopsis:

The Teflon thread clearly resulted in his claims being dismissed by a variety of technicians who have no vested interest in the outcome of this case. There is clear misrepresentation on the invoice with a direct accusation that this dealer is sending out sold instruments to unsuspecting clients with cancer-causing agents inside.

These claims have not been taken lightly by industry professionals, in the piano industry and in the chemical industry.

The Warranty tuning thread had his claims of full regulation and the supporting photos dismissed, and in some cases mocked and ridiculed. This was done by a variety of technicians some of which are PTG members and some which are not. The majority agreed that this was not correct by any standard.

The invoice is a very clear case of fraud or attempted fraud. There is the claim of full regulation completed. The photos I took clearly show that this is not the truth.

Regulation

This person was billing for work not completed or in some cases not done at all. On-going ethics violations must be dealt with immediately or they will just continue year after year.

I never had a desire for this to be the way it is. I agreed to complete a small insignificant warranty repair. I did not agree to have this dumped on my desk. But because it has been, as a professional person I am obligated to see it through.

I have posted all of this here on PianoWorld. All members will have their own interpretation as to why I did so.

A useless exercise would be to try to convince them of my motivations for posting. This was my first, and last, encounter with this manufacturer and this technician. I would not want to re-visit a situation such as this again. I do not believe any of us would want this in their lives.

So I am doing what I can to rid the industry of someone who is clearly damaging relations and reputations locally with colleagues, clients, and dealers.

Anyone locally want to stand with me?