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Some counterpoint:

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Would you expect that same luthier to charge less to work on a cheap fiddle or bow? Would you expect them to work at a lower standard on it?

Counter-counterpoint here.  Was a 600 level class :)

 

I think it's common in the trades to adjust prices, and clearly it's a necessity sometimes.  If I was a doc, personally I'd go where I was most needed, e.g. where nobody can afford to pay me what I would like.  Somebody else might only want to work on movie stars and so they'd set up on the lot and charge appropriately there.  In any case I'd hope everybody would always do their best work.  Things like invisible crack repair, in the neighborhood I worked in they wouldn't care about that so that's not an expense.  But I might do it for the practice.

 

The doc and the mechs,  since they are unaffordable they are paid by insurance.  And they are unaffordable because they are paid by insurance.  Although mechs have both insurance price and not insurance price.  Some docs too.

 

But --  if I was a luthier, I would not touch K's $80,000 bow for less than $80,000 :)  If he insisted I do, then there would would be an ironclad writ of luthiary non-indemnity habeus corpus delecti signed and witnessed in triplicate and stamped by a notary.

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