On Sat, Aug 1, 2009, "Mayes, Joseph" <[email protected]> said:
> Once more let me admonish anyone thinking of ordering a lute from > Luciano Faria - I am still waiting for my instruments - A fully-paid > for theorbo and deposits on two other lutes that are all about three > years late! The man has had considerable difficulty completing orders that one wonders if the brazilian legal system would consider giving him some business advice. It is possible he is overwhelmed by warantee repairs, it is probably he has over-contracted himself for new orders. Many high-level builders have years-long waiting lists, but it is not considered reasonable comercial practice to take deposits until you are ready to begin work. A maker with finacial difficulty could be temted to do otherwise, perhaps mumbling that he was a bit behind... Maybe someone at a US consular office could give you advice Mr Mayes, and others on the list. But before you go too far down that road, consider, if he is treading the line of fraud, it may be because he is on the edge of bankruptcy and has little choice. If that is the case, there wont be any money in the pool, and Luciano will no longer be a resource. In an ideal world someone would set him up with an administrator and an apprentice or two, give out numbers and start a waiting list; train the prentices to do scut work and get into a higher gear. > He doesn't answer emails, phone calls, or (I'm thinking) smoke signals. he probably has so many he wouldnt get any work done, making more emails... Joseph, you have my sympathy, please understand, I just think the man is honestly overwhelmed; not every small business owner is good at the comerce side of things. -- Dana Emery To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
