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 173<br />
Loose pivot<br />
Loose winding clutch<br />
Loose screw under crown<br />
wheel<br />
Six loose screws<br />
A dozen loose screws<br />
Shipper spring broken<br />
Sleeve gone<br />
Threads stripped<br />
Screw missing<br />
Clutch weak<br />
Wheels binding<br />
Oil gummed up<br />
Watch all out of order<br />
In none of the 462<br />
tests that form the basis for<br />
this chapter did any of the watches used by the<br />
investigators have any of these things wrong.<br />
In Los Angeles, Patric, without revealing<br />
fully the nature of the survey, got into friendly<br />
argument with an old colleague of his National<br />
Geographic days, Francis Woodworth, now publicity<br />
man for the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.<br />
Woodworth loyally insisted that local<br />
ethics were high.<br />
"All right," said Patric, "you take an hour off<br />
tomorrow morning. Go to a few jewelers you<br />
pick at random. Get estimates on having this<br />
watch fixed. You don't know why<br />
it doesn't wind.<br />
If, after you've made four or five checks, you<br />
still think Los Angeles jewelers are all honest,<br />
I'll<br />
buy your lunch."<br />
Woodworth went to three jewelers. Each told
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