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  • 1.  Vehicle signage

    Posted 01-15-2005 08:02
    From "Jim Kinnear" <jim@pianoguy.com>
    
    Dave
    A few thoughts on your concerns about magnetic signs. . 
    
    1 - If people, them or us, think that we are likely targets of lawsuits because of our wealth, then collectively, we sure have done a great job in propagating a financial myth here.
    
    2 - I have   discrete  signage, professionally applied on my jeep, and I get appointments when stopped at a red light . . . works for me.
    
    3 - I had one of the magnetic type when I first started . . .it found a new home in some ditch within weeks of being used . .  and they looked cheesey . . I think the 'real ' stuff says that you are professional, and committed . . . the magnetic signs say . .'temporary, and I don't think that is the message any business person wants to convey.
    
    My license plate says PNOGUY . .  ( I could only fit 6 letters on . . .  )
    
    Good luck with your business . .
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    
    Jim Kinnear
    www.kinnearpiano.com
    Collingwood, ON, Canada
    
    The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress
     -- Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French Philosopher
    Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame
     -- Alexander Pope    (1688-1744) English Poet
    A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, 
    but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort!
    
      


  • 2.  Vehicle signage

    Posted 01-15-2005 10:42
    From "pianolover 88" <pianolover88@hotmail.com>
    
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    I have been approached counteless times and booked waaay many tunings as a 
    result of the sign on my vehicle; it IS a magnetic sign, but very well made 
    and it certainly does not look "cheesy". Conversely, I've seen plenty of 
    "'real ' stuff" signs on cars and/or trucks that were pretty UNprofessional 
    in appearance,  so it really depends.
    
    I like the option of being able to **remove** the sign at any time. For 
    instance, there are very exclusive areas in Palos Verdes estates (South bay 
    area of California) where you have to check in at a guard gate. If you have 
    a business sign on you vehicle, and are a non-resident,  they charge you 
    $5.00 to enter! This is where Millionaires and at least one Billionaire (the 
    Kirkorian family, who is my client as well) live. The majority of my clients 
    live in this area, and so whenever I have to pass through a guard gate, I 
    will remove the signs first.
    
    Terry Peterson
    
    
    
    


  • 3.  Vehicle signage

    Posted 01-15-2005 10:58
    From John Ross <jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca>
    
    In that situation, where they live in an area that charges, and that is the 
    only way to get in.
    You put the extra charge on the bill.
    I personally like my semi-permanent signs. (I can remove them on the sale of 
    the vehicle)
    I do believe they give you more legitimacy than the magnetic kind.
    Mind you, I started with magnetic ones, and when I had them, I thought they 
    were fine.
    John M. Ross
    Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
    jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca
    


  • 4.  Vehicle signage

    Posted 01-15-2005 14:28
    From "pianolover 88" <pianolover88@hotmail.com>
    
    The better magnetic signs not only look great, but in my case, it's hard to 
    tell that the lettering isn't cutom painted or stenciled on. I just like the 
    convenience of either re-positioning it, or removing it at any time, like 
    when i go out on a date!
    
    Terry Peterson
    
    
    
    


  • 5.  Vehicle signage

    Posted 01-15-2005 14:44
    From John Ross <jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca>
    
    Ok Terry,
    I just realized, magnetic signs have come a long way.
    You can now get them with actual pictures on them, they are computer 
    generated, and they are flat.
    The ones I was thinking of were the embossed letters on a white background, 
    and they attached around the edges with a strip of magnet.
    Yes the new ones are very nice.
    
    John M. Ross
    Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
    jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca
    


  • 6.  Vehicle signage

    Posted 01-15-2005 16:08
    From "tom driscoll" <tomtuner@comcast.net>
    
    Subject: Re: Vehicle signage
    
    
    > The better magnetic signs not only look great, but in my case, it's hard
    to
    > tell that the lettering isn't cutom painted or stenciled on. I just like
    the
    > convenience of either re-positioning it, or removing it at any time, like
    > when i go out on a date!
    >
    > Terry Peterson
    
        Terry,
    
        So you're back with Betsy Ross huh?
        Tom Driscoll
    >
    


  • 7.  Vehicle signage

    Posted 01-15-2005 15:32
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    From "Alan" <tune4u@earthlink.net>
    
    It's a little after-the-snowstorm muddy but ...
    
    My vinyl-plastered truck looks and "feels" more professional to me than the
    old car did.
    
    Give me a case and frame and I think I could build you a piano out of this
    truck. I carry EVERYTHING in there 'cause it's always a long haul back to
    the shop. My tilter is locked in the bed with a bicycle locking cable.
    
    I get complements and JOBS from the signage. No one bothers my truck here in
    the sticks* and I park it in the street.
    
    Alan R. Barnard
    Signing off from Salem, MO
    
    *Last Monday I tuned pianos for two customers on Yokum Road in the middle of
    the Mark Twain Nat'l Forest ... Nearest town is about 3 miles away --
    Davisville, a.k.a. Pucky Huddle, Missouri.
    
    
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  • 8.  Vehicle signage

    Posted 01-15-2005 16:49
    From "pianolover 88" <pianolover88@hotmail.com>
    
    The other side of this is the car or truck you are driving; the sign can be 
    the best there is, magnetic or otherwise, but if you vehicle is an old 
    beater or just badly maintained, dented, rusty or whatever, the best sign 
    won't do much good.
    
    Terry Peterson
    
    
    
    


  • 9.  Vehicle signage

    Posted 01-15-2005 17:00
    From "pianolover 88" <pianolover88@hotmail.com>
    
    <<Terry,
    
         So you're back with Betsy Ross huh?
         Tom Driscoll>>
    
    
    I love a good joke, even at my own expense, but I didn't get that one, 
    unless it was a jab at my age? I'm only 48, but then again, I guess that 
    does make me "middle age!"
    Terry Peterson
    
    
    
    


  • 10.  Vehicle signage

    Posted 01-15-2005 18:08
    From "tom driscoll" <tomtuner@comcast.net>
    
    > <<Terry,
    >
    >      So you're back with Betsy Ross huh?
    >      Tom Driscoll>>
    >
    >
    > I love a good joke, even at my own expense, but I didn't get that one,
    > unless it was a jab at my age? I'm only 48, but then again, I guess that
    > does make me "middle age!"
    > Terry Peterson
    
        To my talented friend from the south,
        The joke is that you had a date with a Betsy Ross spinet, not the famous
    seamstress from by-gone days.
        Tom Driscoll (age 51)
    


  • 11.  Vehicle signage

    Posted 01-16-2005 12:03
    From "Carl Meyer" <cmpiano@comcast.net>
    
    


  • 12.  Vehicle signage

    Posted 01-16-2005 17:14
    From "ibetuner" <ibetuner@sbcglobal.net>
    
    Carl:
    
    I was born on my uncle's birthday ( he was 30 years old at the time).  When
    I was 10 years old he said to me, he was 40, that means I was 1/4 his age.
    When I'd be 20, he'd be 50, I'd be 2/5ths his age. When I'd be 30, he'd be
    60, now I'd be 1/2 his age, etc, etc, etc.
    
    He wanted to know if I thought I would ever catch up to him...
    
    No Carl, it won't go negative or invert after that...you will never make it
    to middle age based on my uncles calculations.
    
    
    Wayne Lutzow
    Lincoln, CA
    
    >
    > Terry, the way I see it is midle age is half way between how old you are
    and
    > your life expectancy.  I'm 75 and my life expectancy is about 75 1/2 so
    I'll
    > be middle age in three months.  Then at that time it will be six weeks
    till
    > I'm middle age.  Etc. I guess it will invert and go negative after that.
    > Hmmmm.
    >
    > Carl Meyer
    > PTG assoc
    


  • 13.  Vehicle signage

    Posted 01-16-2005 09:06
    From Erwinspiano@aol.com
    
    In a message dated 1/15/2005 5:09:29 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
    tomtuner@comcast.net writes:
       
     Terry-Tom
    Hey I thought it was funny. I may be 51 but not slloooww. Heard Betsy was a  
    babe.
       Dale
    
    
    >  <<Terry,
    >
    >      So you're back with Betsy  Ross huh?
    >      Tom  Driscoll>>
    >
    >
    > I love a good joke, even at my own  expense, but I didn't get that one,
    > unless it was a jab at my age? I'm  only 48, but then again, I guess that
    > does make me "middle  age!"
    > Terry Peterson
    
    To my talented friend from  the south,
    The joke is that you had a date with a Betsy Ross  spinet, not the famous
    seamstress from by-gone days.
    Tom  Driscoll (age 51)
    
     
    


  • 14.  Vehicle signage

    Posted 01-16-2005 09:48
    From "hubert liverman" <hubertliverman@bellsouth.net>
    
    Yup..and babes are trouble. Lester, her daddy God rest his soul, knew it. If he was in a cranky mood, he could give almost as much grief after he got older.
    
      Hubert 
      Not so talented in Alabama.
    
    
      Heard Betsy was a babe.
         Dale
    
            To my talented friend from the south,
            The joke is that you had a 'date' with a Betsy Ross spinet.
        .Tom Driscoll