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Show ing only in good merchandise and applying ap-plying the Golden liuie in business. In presenting his suggestion, Jordan asked a number of dealers to write the names of v,-hat they considered the best and second best cars in every price class from $500 up. This gave each dealer a list of about sixteen cars. Each man made his own list without consuming consum-ing the others. Then Mr. 0 'Carroll suggested that for sixty days each dealer trade only in the cars lie had just written on his list, cars which measured up to the individual in-dividual dealer's specifications. "If you will have the courage to sell only these cars von know are good merchandise," mer-chandise," he told the dealers, "it will mean a big elimination of course, but you will have the used car problem solved. "Don't sell a man an automobile you know is wrong. You can figure he will get back at you." y GOLDEN RULE CAN FIT THE USED CARS P. .T. Carroll, retail sales manager of the Pacific. Nash Motor company, offers of-fers automobile dealers a solution of the problems connected with the handling han-dling of used cars. His suggestion for settling the used car question, which dealers have long considered one of their greatest problems, has attracted considerable attention since ho made it in an address before a recent meeting af automobilo manufacturers and dealers. deal-ers. j, Mr. 0 'Carroll's solution is very simple sim-ple It rests on the principle of trad- |