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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1 68 <strong>REPAIRMEN</strong> WILL GET <strong>YOU</strong><br />
good living, but I'd do better if the gyps didn't<br />
take the cream of the business. That's why I'm<br />
always willing to show up a careless or crooked<br />
watchmaker. I wish there were more customers<br />
like you going around with little tricks and showing<br />
up the crooks. It would help the whole<br />
trade."<br />
One crooked repairman displayed the typical<br />
escapist alibi philosophy of his kind, blaming his<br />
own sins on a conventional handy goat:<br />
CASE 183. Canton, Mississippi. "I can fix this<br />
for $1.50. But why do you have it fixed at all?<br />
Why not trade it off for a good watch you won't<br />
always be having trouble with?" "But I just had<br />
this one fixed," I told him. "Who fixed it? Somebody<br />
around here?" I told him that I thought it<br />
had been the Excel Company. "Oh, that damn<br />
Jew. What do you expect for your money from<br />
a sheeny like that? You know who's against 'em,<br />
don't you? You know who's going<br />
to chase the<br />
s out of business, don't you? Hitler! He's the<br />
man to do it."<br />
Here I interposed :<br />
"Maybe I'd better go back<br />
to that watchmaker and have him fix it again."
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