The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-07-16
HOW TO SELL JEWEl.RY.
Women Said to he ID Hard Lot to ucat
With a Iri,k of Trade.

Women said tn he Hard Lot to peai
With \ Iri.h of Trade.
A Main street jeweler says that he ind.
the WOMEN a harl lot Ia deal with in some
respects, while IN others they ARE very dc
sirate customers II man buys "a slu
watch and inis that IL gets two or three
minutes out Of tho way IN roIrs. ot time h.
comes back AMI wants u dynamite tho
store. \ woman buys IA watch Tor IT. looks
and IL 1t is tive ur ten MINUTES cut OF the
way she DOESN'T care She Mould prefer not
10 have 1t stop altogether, though Now
AMI then s,bool ma am comes IN here ami
shows quite II masculine desire to have a
gool time keeper, but she Is AN exception
Then It is hard for WOMAN 10 make up her
mind about purchase any way. ! sold u
ins gold watch to Il woman yesterday,
continued the merchant. after she hal
been IN certainly ten tiii.s To look over my
stock. Since she started out on her search
she had been TO every store In the city.
know she hal She WAS accompanied OH
her last Nisit by male friont, who al
yisei for my watch She kept m all
through my supper hour, tut of course ,he
didn't think of that, and was satisfied
"Soinctim,s We have t. resort to iittle
tricks Of trade Two women came In here
the other day and saiA they had an hour in
which To iuy IA clock for their pastor
showed them beautiful clock worth S,h
The price was about right, but they couldn't
bo satisfied So easily, ami were for startin.
out Oh "a tour of inspection took tho
clio K to pieces, showed them the works, eN
plainel the mechanism, and got them NO
nitere,ted that they forgot how tn time
was tying. tlsc hour went by, they did not
lMyo time to look fu thcr and were well
satisfied t. buy the clock. Tho secret Of
successful selling il alwaye 10 be courteous
and Interested ia your customers. In H.
busines, IN this 81 important as In ours, IN
which sale, have to he carefully guilty atei
from the irst feeble nibble to the final iita
Here comes a man now that have been try
ing to sill damon ., to for q month The
door burst oIsn, the eweler left hi coy
quarters to meet tho visitor, entorei into u
pleasant chat with tho wonl bo iuyer, got
out the familiar clsket AMI displayed It,
contents to the hst advantage Then he
leanel carclcssly over the show case,
whstled softly, and "a ell out ut the uplo
on the street
Eut tho visitors part WAS not played 50
nicely He turned over the jewels ncrv.
ou.ly put them on his fingers took them
oil, looked at them in every light, twisted
his handkerchief IN them Then, as il with
sudden determination, held up n ring, askei
the price criticized the fit. hngglcd over the
price little, anl sad hc would take IT,
The purchas' was quickly made, and the
. jeweler came back with snilc OF triumph
"llc paid - moro for the diamond than
would have given it TO him for "A week ago
he ,ad 1T almost amounts to sulerstl.
tion with me, but make special efforts u
sell, and at gool prices, on rainy days
Some days we sell so worth Of goods and
some days S0l Rainy days, AM some
others, are set down as bal ones for trade.
So exert my self u bring up tho sales IL
possible ON the OF days We hang out for
fair price If We ran get IL, We take low
price If We must, hut sell We will one sees
IA good deal of human nature, for lev
things touch q mans innermost self 81
closely as his pocketb Ok, and few thing
touch his pocketbouk Ikea iewelcr lflo oi
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