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 8 <strong>REPAIRMEN</strong> WILL GET <strong>YOU</strong><br />
look at my car. The chap<br />
used to be foreman of a<br />
big dealer garage and quit when he was reprimanded<br />
for refusing to gyp a woman."<br />
Yours,<br />
PAT.<br />
DEAR BILL :<br />
Newark, New Jersey<br />
January 2<br />
Before I came down here I stopped in a few places<br />
along the Boston Post Road. One fellow his shop<br />
was pretty busy tested the car and said it didn't<br />
need anything. He charged me fifty cents.<br />
The next man wasn't so busy. He was one of the<br />
smart salesman type. After he looked the car over<br />
he said "Before :<br />
you start on your long trip you need<br />
your valves ground and you need a new battery."<br />
So I said: "The fellow who sold me the car said it<br />
was in perfect condition, but of course / don't know.<br />
Will you tell me why you think it needs these things?"<br />
For reply the fellow tested the battery again for<br />
my benefit. He used a hydrometer. One cell read<br />
about 1175 specific gravity and the others were<br />
around 1275, where they should be. So I knew the<br />
hydrometer was O.K. I told him I'd just had the<br />
generator fixed and thought that that might have
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