The Detroit times., 1910-10-28
Times Is Praised for
Expose Of Peoples Way
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to a finish showed some interesting
facts. First that a contract, on which
the manager claimed for the Peoples
Quitting Co. that about $50 was due,
was actually shown TO have been
more than paid up. In this case. how
ever. the Peoples way" happened to
be dealing with a party who knew
t,the law.
Usually legal process u not neces-
sary. All that is needed Is a strong
blum with an oficious display OF a
badge by the driver or collector and
the women folk, who are usually the
only ones at home when the wagon
drives up TO take the things back, are
so frightened that they allow the driv-
ere to take out anything In the
house.
" have found so much interest in the
experiences OF those who have had
dealings with this concern, that have
added few more letters and stories
to those which were printed yester-
day.
NO. 1.
I have read In your paper about the
Peoples Way" I wish TO send TO you
the facts about my case.
Last Christmas my wife wished 70
get me present. so she went 70 the
Peoples Outntting Co. 10 see what abe
could get for me.
told her pe wSs SIS. but 0G said they would
not guarantee IL. Then they showed
her another chair which was t2b, which
toSk f shs o snsK w With Ike
that II Il was not all o. *. we were 70
return Il ana they would make II all
When the chair came. OF course. we
were 80 taken up with Il we did not
notice any defects Few days later
Il kan n looked
lop- sided. so 1 examined 1t and found
one OF the rockers broken. Then
would replace the chair. / received
chair. but II was the same one,
packed up In such way that we
not look as closely at II as we should
have.
shortly after we received IL I was
broke and threw the baby and myself
against the table. This time had
loads OF trouble getting them TO come
to do / had to keep after them for
knearly a whole month before they sent
man UP 10 my house to nix it. but
wanted another chair for II. The man
who came TO fix II came when ! was
not Mt home and my wife, thinking IL
was all right let him repair II. He
asked her TO sign slip TO show that
he had been there. so she signed H.
not thinking that she was doing wrong.
but when called them up about tho
chair they claimed my wife signed the
slip stating the chair was In good con-
dillon. Rather than have more trouble.
l paid them up. But / Will bet the
Peoples Quitting Co. that the chair
got was not worth over $40. IL II was
II was the first thing we bought there
and believe me, II certainly Will be the
last.
one well known man bought a bill
of about $500 worth OF furniture when
he first came to the city. He found
y that almost every article that was de-
livered to him, showed signs OF being
used before. He paid 1920 and then
ordered the goods taken back. They
finally did take them back, but not
until they had bluffed SIS more out
OF him. He replaced the furniture
with new goods. at a trihing loss.
NO. =.
Having read how the Peoples OUTFIT
- tins Co. lures the public. | VIII gladly
tell you that am one OF the victims. l
bought a Peninsular baseburner stove.
FULL NICKEL and paid $50 cash for
the same. After received II there was
only one-auarter OF nickel on the stove.
and hereby hope that others won't be
humbugged the same as / was
A newly-married couple starting
housekeeping bought a bill Of fur
niture, paying 5000 down. A few
= weeks afterward the husband died
suddenly, and the Peoples Quitting
Co. sent up their wagons and took
back every article Thus they had the
goods, which had hardly been used.
and 5000 OF their customers money as
we'll. The customer had nothing.
NO. 3.
Seeing your exposure OF the Peoples
Outftting Co. wish TO tell you how 1
: Chairs, i paid cash for 81 a piece, /
y picked them out and when they
brought tie chairs 10 the house never
saw such looking things. Some OF the
backs were crooked, and others with
though / was very mad. 1 bought some
carpet and two rockers: when they
brought them they had been broken
them they broke down. When they
came again 1 sent them back and lost
that would never go In their store
again and never have.
What you see In the Peoples win
dow or I'm the Peoples advertising, In
the PEOPLES way, and what you don't
get for the price you see given In con-
nection, Is demonstrated in this let
y ter:
NO. 4.
My husband and I went TO the Peo-
pies Outntting co. when we were nrst
married to see. as we had seen In their
display. -four rooms furnished com
plete for Housekeeping" There were
pictures, draperies, gas range. plano,
and n beautiful set OF dishes In a beua-
tiful china cabinet. rugs on the hoors,
linoleum on the kitchen. In fact, every
thing almost person could think or TO
do with. All you would have to do
would be 10 light the fire and cook and
eat, II would seem, but when IL came
to itemizing what we were to get We
got no pictures, no draperies, no range.
no music TO dishes, no rugs; In fact,
no nothing for our money.
We went later on again to look at q
pedestal dining table. Manager No. ]
took Us upstairs to see the table. tS2.
OF course we could not anord that, so
started, away. Mr.. Manager ran TO the
little button somewhere and the ele-
Vator brought UP No. the next trip.
We walked back 10 the table and
looked at the tag and behold. II had
taken an awful Slump7-only 1850. mo,
/ was new man." said No. 2, and did
/ looked at n refrigerator No less
than three different men showed me the
same refrigerator at three dtueront
pricea and bought one for tl4.7b that
was started on at 1850.
NV husbands brother bought $3.50
worth OF furniture OF them for four
rooms and on account OF his wires
Ill-henith had to move out west before
having finished his payments, and they
took IL back after he had paid out 400
foT the time they had IL
The new clerk was In evidence
again when the writer, whose letter
a. -.