Piano Rental Cost

[brahmsian]

So my store wants to rent a piano so we (and by we i mean me) can play live music in the store. I went to check out prices, and it was like $1200 CDN for two months. Does that seem reasonable? The salesperson said we were basically only paying for the delivery and tuning.
Any thoughts?

[BoliverAllmon]

what is CDN? canadian dollars? if so that sounds steep.

[brahmsian]

Yeah, that's Canadian dollars. Hopefully the store will be willing to drop that amount on a piano...

[abell88]

Piano movers (in Toronto) charge about $250, I believe (certainly under $400) each way; tuning is about $90...even if you got the piano tuned monthly for the first few months, $1200 obviously is way more than the moving/tuning costs.  If it's $1200 every two months (i.e. not 1200 for the first two, and then something less afterwards), that's $7200/year, and you might as well buy a new piano. Have you contacted other piano stores?

[leahcim]

I bet it's a lot to do with short term v long term hire - the latter being a way of trying to get you to buy it at MRRP down the line

Depends what the shortest term is - but you might find 3 months is cheaper.

[classicarts]

You can always deal with them, particularly with rentals.  Don't buy into their first offer.