BUY IN YOUR OWN TOWN

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4394, 24 March 1922, Page 4

BUY IN YOUR OWN TOWN

The following article, entitled “An Example of Retail Mail Order Dealing,” was published by J. M. Bright, a business man, ofi 'West Virginia, U.S.A-: .. Down in a certain town, the pther day a man went into a store to buy a tube. He saw the kind he wanted and asked the price. It was: three dollars twenty cents, the dealer sai,. “Good gracious,” said the man,, I can get the same tthing from a mailorder house for two dollars eightytwo cents.” “That’s Jess tjian it costs me,, said the dealer, “but I’ll. sell it on the same terms as the mail-order house just the same.” “AH right,” said the customer. “You can send it along and charge it to my account.” “Not. on your lite,,” the dealer replied. “No charge accounts. . You can’t do business with the mail-or-der house that . way. Fork over the cash.” The customer handed over the “Now two cents for- postage and five cents for money order.” “What ” “Certainly: you have to send- a letter and a money order to the mailorder house, you know.” The customer, inwardly raving, kept to his agreement and paid the seven cents, n “Now thirty-five cents expressage. “Well, I’U b e —' ie P it, saying: “Now hand me that tube and I’ll take it home for myself and be rid of tliis foolery*. “Hand it to you ? Where do you think you are ? You're not in Chicago, and you’ll have to wait a week for that tube.” . Whereupon he placed the tube on the shelf and put the money in his cash drawer. “That makes three dollars twentysix cents,” he said. “It has cost yon six cents more and taken you a week longer to get it than if you had paid my price in the fir,st place.