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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WATCHES 171<br />
still he wouldn't tell me what was wrong. Nothing<br />
was, of course, except the loose screw.<br />
CASE 147. Miami, Florida. A small shop. The<br />
owner said : "You got a stripped winding wheel<br />
all the teeth are worn out. It'll cost a dollar to<br />
fix it." I asked him if he had the parts. For reply<br />
he took out a little box of winding wheels and<br />
compared several carefully with the wheel from<br />
my watch. Then with a neat hand-is-quickerthan-the-eye<br />
technique he put my old winding<br />
wheel back into the watch. I asked to see "my old<br />
wheel" ;<br />
he handed me a rusty one that had never<br />
been in my watch. "This isn't mine mine wasn't<br />
I said. Then I showed him how<br />
rusty like this,"<br />
the design on the wheels now in my watch<br />
matched, proving that no change had been made<br />
at all.<br />
Said one honest man in Norfolk, Virginia:<br />
"With a wrist watch, if you fling your arm suddenly<br />
to one side sometimes this little coil spring<br />
binds. Friction holds it there, and the watch<br />
won't run. You can fix it<br />
by simply tapping it;<br />
but crooked watchmakers will charge $2.50 to<br />
$5.00."
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