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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that had been in there when I brought the set into<br />
the shop!<br />
CASE 33. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. "It needed<br />
three tubes. Your bill isn't much," the mechanic<br />
told me, adding up some numbers to the amount<br />
of $4.25. I<br />
asked for the old tubes. "Those have<br />
been thrown outside in the trash." Then he<br />
turned to his co-worker and said, "That door to<br />
the outside is<br />
locked,<br />
isn't it?" It was obvious<br />
they had no old tubes to give me. I paid $4.25 for<br />
a typewritten receipt<br />
the actual labor.<br />
In not a few cases the investigators met outright<br />
sabotage. One man in Dallas, Texas, spread<br />
apart the center socket so that the center post<br />
made no connection. One in Milwaukee twisted<br />
a connection so it<br />
would not function. This instance<br />
of dexterity on the RCA took place in<br />
Memphis, Tennessee :<br />
CASE 152. The mechanic pulled out my B battery,<br />
put in a fresh one, and hooked up<br />
the disconnected<br />
battery wire. The set played, of course.<br />
I expressed surprise that my old battery had<br />
burned out so soon and started to put<br />
"I'll do it<br />
it back.<br />
for you," he said, and put<br />
it back up-
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