The Newtown bee., 1896-04-03
A, {, BAKERS AD

We invitey this week to compare two 1 methods of selling furniture. The city meth
 od and ours. which we claim are radically diHcrcnt. All city houses as you know put l out Hlluring sidewalk leaders. cheaplY 1 gotten up chair or table marked 43c and 93C. l Articles thu cost ut wholesale bv the dozen ! or 100. l5c and $l each. Now these leaders are 1 always articles that you and eve~y body else l know the value Of within few cents Mind ! yOu that no $75 PLrlOr suits or $25 chairs 1 are used as lcaders. on the contrary they are l used to make the money on. Now any leader
 is a ntslcader but that's just what they are put out for. No honorable house ought to have them, yet custom has legitimized it. l 1t is following out the same line of policy that the "Faklr" and "wheel of Fortune man" tol'ows when he distributes few sil- yer dollars at 50 cents each to deceive and | lead on his victims. We know from person l Il observation as a dealer, that city prices on 1 fine grades Otfurniture al @ extraordinarily high l and ridiculOusly low On cheap goods. Know l ing this to be a tact we started the turnitu- I business here at Hawleyville conscious 1 and positive that with our small expenses 1 and uneXcelled facilities for handling we 1 could sell a fine grade of goods at a big re- | duction from city prices and still make liv l ing commission. Four years of experience l 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 ! can give, as we have not single leader in the 1 store and never expect to have. No article of l furniture marked less than cost for the pur 1 pose of giving false impression to our prices. Travelling salesman and others told l us we E"could not do business success ssfulIy l without these leaders, that the impI essiOns ] of the masses were formed by small things" l But we have been doing business four years on this line to the 8 setistactlon ot ourselves and we think Ot those who have bought of us. and we shall continue on the same line, al- though we are almost alone in it. The time l we thlnk is nearly past when sensible buy CTS will continue to think that one concern s
 prices are better than anOther's just because ] they are selling kitchen chair for 39 cents | that is known to be worth 45 or 50. We have
 furnished up house after house in the differ
 enU cities ot Connecticut in direct competition
 with the largest furniture concerns in those
 cities, just because people are looking at the
 sum total of a bill of furniture selected at 1 uawleyville as compared with the sum
 total of about the same bill in their city. ] They could buy few ot the cheaper articles
 it a less price at home but sthey are not go- l ing to allow 50 cent loss to make total
 eclipse of a $lO saving. We have in mind ! now a mahogany Bedroom suit that we sell at ! b56. An exact duplicate of that suit stands In | d certain city store marked $75 and has been I sold and duplicated time after time, and yet
 that same store will sell you 8 Rocker tol
 37 cents that will not sell less than $l 25 l What we claim most empha tically is that our
 prices are consistent one with another anC l if you buy oI us a Turkish Rocker or any fine piece of furniture which no one but
 dea' CT can know the actual value of you arC
 not paying or 10 dollars more than a legiti
 mate commission on it. We Ehave positive h proof almost every day that prices on 1 line pieces are much low than the city y Only yesterday a visitor pointing to a desk 7, l and fancy rocker says ''I just paid Tn thu a city tor exact dupFie 1tes of those two piec es 3, nine dollars more than you have then
 marked" Now we are cracking no jokes thi : week When it gets right down to business
 and business iprinciples we leave jokini
 aside. We have made st dement's that WI i' can subsbantiate by stern facts. We can re
 cal scores ot instances where customers hav
 come back from the city and told us that souI - sum total of the bill of furniture they wan
 is much the lowest, but they csn beat us il
 the city on 0 few of the cheap articles. w
 have big stock in all lines aud If you can \ not lind what you want in your own tow D. don't buy in New York until you have locke, us oyer thoroughly.