REPAIRMEN MAY GYP YOU-1951
"For six months," says The Neiv York Herald Tribune, "the two authors of this perturbing little volume made a nationwide investigation of the higher nature, if any, of the American repairman. Buying a used car of distinguished make, they engaged the assistance of a lady who looked more helpless than she was, and traveled 19,000 miles, with 1,700 calls on repair shops." "And no one," adds the Boston Post, "could ever pass this book with indifference Whatever your experience with repairmen may have been, you'll find its counterpart here. You will point it out with great satisfaction, and you'll say: 'There! That's exactly what happened to me once.' And you're lucky if it has happened only once. The Post can't think of any subject for research that touches more people. Buy this book, and you will get your money back, over and over, in amounts saved through your wisdom." "There are some amusing stories in it," says the Baltimore Sun, and the Washington Post thinks that the funniest were "the authors' experiences with the Rube Goldberg testing machines used by some shops to impress customers." "The articles in The Reader's Digest were interesting," remarks the Springfield Republican, "but they left room for doubt. The book, however, with details of the almost laboratory caution used by the authors in making their tests, is alarmingly convincing."
"For six months," says The Neiv York Herald Tribune,
"the two authors of this perturbing little volume made a
nationwide investigation of the higher nature, if any, of the
American repairman. Buying a used car of distinguished
make, they engaged the assistance of a lady who looked
more helpless than she was, and traveled 19,000 miles, with
1,700 calls on repair shops."
"And no one," adds the Boston Post, "could ever pass
this book with indifference Whatever your experience with
repairmen may have been, you'll find its counterpart here.
You will point it out with great satisfaction, and you'll say:
'There! That's exactly what happened to me once.' And
you're lucky if it has happened only once. The Post can't
think of any subject for research that touches more people.
Buy this book, and you will get your money back, over and
over, in amounts saved through your wisdom."
"There are some amusing stories in it," says the Baltimore
Sun, and the Washington Post thinks that the funniest were
"the authors' experiences with the Rube Goldberg testing
machines used by some shops to impress customers."
"The articles in The Reader's Digest were interesting,"
remarks the Springfield Republican, "but they left room
for doubt. The book, however, with details of the almost
laboratory caution used by the authors in making their tests,
is alarmingly convincing."
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This has been one of the most widely discussed journalistic projects<br />
ever undertaken. Parts of the book were first printed in The Reader's<br />
Digest in a series of articles titled The Repair Man Will Gyp You If<br />
You Don't Watch Out; The Radio Repair Man Will Gyp You If You<br />
Don't Watch Out; The Watch Repair Man Will Gyp You If You<br />
Don't Look Out, and a fourth article that summarized the tremendous<br />
reader reaction. Millions of reprints have been distributed. Excerpts<br />
have appeared in newspapers and trade journals everywhere. Parts of<br />
this book have been reprinted in Canada and in Great Britain, and in<br />
translation, in many other parts of the world, notably Latin America.<br />
Radio dramatizations of some of this material have been presented over<br />
national broadcasting networks in both the United States and Canada.<br />
ACE RADIO &<br />
TELEVISION<br />
REPAIR SHOP<br />
Copyright MCMXLI<br />
by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc.<br />
Country Life Press<br />
Garden City, N.Y.<br />
Copyright MCMIL<br />
by John Patric, and published at<br />
Frying Pan Creek<br />
Florence, Oregon<br />
SECOND EDITION
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