The Newtown bee., 1896-05-08
A. (. BAKERS AID

We invite you this week to compare two methods of selling furniture. The city meth od and ours, which we claim are radically different. All city houses as you know put out aIluring sidewalk leadors A cheaplY gotten up chair or table marked 43c and 98c' Articles thas cost at wholesale by the dozen or 100, l5c and $l each. Now these leaders are always articles that you and every body else know the vnlue of within a few cents. Mind you that no $75 Parlor suits or $25 chairs are used as leaders. on the contrary they are used to make the money on. Now any leader is il mislonHer but thHt's just what they are put out for. No honorable house ought to have thoIu, yet custom has legitilnized it. It is following out the same line of policy that the 'Fatlr' and "wheel of Fortune man" follows when he distributes few sil- yer dollars nt 90 cents each to deceive and lead on his victims. We know from person al observation as a dealer, that city prices on fine grades of furniture Al 0 extraordinarily high and ridiculously low On cheap goods. Know ing this to ba a tact we started the furniture business here at Hnwleyville conscious and positive that with our small expenses and uneXcelled facilities for handling we could sell a fine grade of goods at a big re- duCtOn from city prices and still make llv Ing commission. Four years of experience has proved that we were right. We are also aware that you can go to the city and pick up better bargains in cheap leaders than we cnn give, as we have not a single leader in the store and never expect to have. No article of furniture marked less than cost for the pur. l pose of giving false impression AS to our l prices. Travelling salesman and others told 1 us we g"COuId not do business successfully without these leaders, that the impI essiOns l of the musses were formed by small things" l lDi hyIS on this line to the satisfaction of ourselves and we think ot those who have bought of us, and we shall continue on the same line, nl- 1 though we arc almost alone in 1t. The time we thlns is nearly past whom sensible buy | CTS will continue to think that one concerns 1 prices nrU better than another's just because they are selling kitchen chair for 39 cenls that is known to be worth 45 or .5O- We nave furnished up house after house in the diher- eur cities 0t Connecticut in direct competition | with the largest furniture concerns in those cities just because people are looking at the
 sum total ,Ot a bill of furniture selected al
 HawleyviIle as compared with the sun
 total of about the same .bill in their city
 They could buy few Ot the cheaper articles
 nt a less price Rt home but Gthey are not go 1 ing to allow a 50 cent loss to make a tota
 eclipse of $lO saving. We have in min'
 now a mahogany Bedroom suit that we sell a
 $56. An exact duplicate of that suit stands II 1 a certain city store marked $75. and has beeI sold and duplicated time after time, and ye
 that same store will sell you Rocker 10
 97 cents that we will not sell less than $l 2'
 What we claim most emphattcally Is that ou
 prices are consistent one with another an
 fl you buy of us & Turkish Rocker or an
 fine piece ot furniture which no one but
 dealer can know the actual value of syou ar
 not paying or 10 dollars more than al legit ' mate commission on it, We Ehave positiv proof almost every day that our prices o
 fine pieces are much lower than the city 1 Only yesterday visitor pointing to des
 and fancy rocker says "I just paid Tn tn - city tor exact duplicates of those two piece nine dollars more than you have thei
 marked" Now VIC are cracking no jokes,th
 week. When it gets right down to busineS
 and business principles we leave jokin
 aside. We have made statements that W
 can substantiate by stern facts. We can r'
 call scores ot instances where customers hay
 come back from the city and told us that ou . sum total of the bill of furniture they wal
 is much the lowest, but they can beat us
 the city on a few of the cheap articles.
 have a big stock in all lines and if you ca ' not find what you want in your own tow
 don't buy in New York until you have locke
 us oyer thoroughly.
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