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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AUTOMOBILES<br />
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sion, deceit, and all manner of strange gyrations.<br />
A man in Raleigh, North Carolina, whose bill<br />
was $5.00 for parts and labor, said, "By 'parts' in<br />
this case we mean a gallon of special chemical<br />
we ran through your engine to free up<br />
You don't want the empty can, surely?"<br />
the valves.<br />
an entire block. The mechanic who waited<br />
CASE 55. Norfolk, Virginia. This garage occupies<br />
on me found the trouble at once<br />
I could see his<br />
hands through the crack behind the raised hood.<br />
But before I knew it he had removed one of the<br />
condensers. I wondered what else he would take<br />
off and got out and asked him how long<br />
it would<br />
for a new<br />
take to fix the car. "I'm sending the boy<br />
condenser. He'll be back here in about ten minutes."<br />
The fellow dallied around with the motor<br />
a little,<br />
to it,<br />
giving the illusion of doing something<br />
and finally put my old condenser back on<br />
it's in first-class condition, of course, being<br />
brand-new. The mechanic had talked with a boy,<br />
as if he had sent the boy for parts.<br />
I asked for the<br />
old condenser when I asked for the bill.<br />
He disappeared<br />
and returned with a miserable wreck<br />
of a condenser. It was apparently the only one
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