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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"wavemagnet" portable sets,<br />
RADIOS 1<br />
27<br />
three of which we<br />
bought new for the survey.<br />
But in order to collect the largest possible<br />
number of test cases we bought another radio, a<br />
pocket RCA. There was an advantage to the use<br />
of this smaller set. "While Lioy May has the car<br />
out on tests," wrote Patric in a report on the first<br />
case involving the RCA,<br />
"I have to tote the<br />
Zenith. I might carry two Zeniths well enough,<br />
but you can't go into a radio shop with both of<br />
them. So I wrap up the RCA and carry<br />
it like a<br />
box of hardware under my arm. I plant the<br />
Zenith first and pick<br />
it<br />
up last,<br />
so that I never<br />
appear to a radioman to be carrying two sets.<br />
This extra radio speeds up our work in places<br />
where there are many shops." In this little set we<br />
sometimes loosened a<br />
tube, but usually we disconnected<br />
one of the two snap-on wires from the<br />
"B" battery. This, too, is just as obvious to any<br />
inspecting eye as it can possibly be.<br />
In every case, before entering a repair shop,<br />
the investigator tested the radio to make certain<br />
that it was playing as well as ever then loosened<br />
the tube or slipped<br />
the repair shop.<br />
off the wire and walked into
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