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Show MERCHANT TRY THIS ON THE M. O. PATRONS Up in Idaho some time ago a man went into a store to buy a saw. He '.ocated the kind he wanted and asked ask-ed the price. "The price is $1.65," .the dealer replied. re-plied. "Good gracious," said the man; "I can get the same thing from the mail order house for $1.35." ''That's less than it cost me," said the dealer; "but I'll sell it on the same terms as the mail order house, just the same." "All right, said the customer. "You can send it along and charge it to my account." "Not oh your life." the dealer replied, re-plied, "No charge accounts. You can't do business with the mail order house that way. Fork over the cash, The customer complied. "Now, two cents postage and five cents for a money order." "What" The customer, inwardly ravaing, kept his agreement and paid the seven cents. "Now, twenty-five cents express-age." express-age." "Well I'll be" he said, but paid it saying: ''Now hand me that saw and I'll take it home myself and be rid of this foolery." "Hand it to you. Where do you think you are ? You're in Idaho and I'm in Chicago, and you'll have to wait two weeks for that saw." Whereupon the dealer hung the saw on the peg and) put the money in his cash drawer. That makes $1.67 he said, "It has cost you ,two cents more and Itaken you two weeks longen to get it than if you had paid my price in the first place. |