The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-10-29

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more than paid up. In this case, how.
ever, the Peoples way" happened TO
be dealing with a party who knew
the law
Usually legal process Is not neces-
sary. All that Is needed is a strong
2 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, ave
SO frightened that they allow the driv-
ers to take out anything in the
houses
have found so much interest In the
experiences OF those who have had
dealings with this concern. that have
added a few more letters and stories
to those which were printed yester-
day.
NO. 4.
have read in. your paper about the
Peoples Way" l wish 10 send to you
the facts about my case.
Last Christmas my wife wished TO
Peoples oltnttine Co. to see what she
She picked out a rocker which they
told her was sic, but said they would
not guarantee II. Then they showed
they said they would guarantee. so she
took the chair with the understanding
that II II was not all o. X. we were 70
return II and they would make II all
When the chair came. OF course. we
were 10 taken up with II we did not
when looked at the chair II looked
lop- sided, 80 / examined IL and FOUND
one OF the rockers broken. Then
called them up and they said they
| "A i
n chair. but II was the same one.
packed up in such a way that we
Thought IL Vas another chair. we ala
not look ~ closely at IL as we should
shortly after we received It I was
rocking our baby TO sleep when II
against the table. THE time l had
loads of trouble getting them TO come
and make good. which they promised
to 90. l had TO keep after them for
nearly a whole month before they sent
a man up to my house to fx II. but
did not want IL repaired any more. L
| wanted another chair for IL. The man
who came 10 TX IL came when / was
not At home. and my wife. thinking II
was all right. let him repair IL. He
he had been there. so she signed H.
not tnlnkiI = that she was doing wrong.
but when / called them up about the
chair they claimed my wife signed the
sir stating the chair was In good con-
dillon. Rather than have more trouble,
paid them up. But | Will bet the
) Peoples Outhttlng Co. that the chair
worth that much.
IL was the first thing we bought there
and. believe me. II certainly viii be the
last
One well known man bought a bin
OF about $500 worth OF furniture when
he first came to the city. He found
that almost every article that was de-
livered to him, showed signs OF being
used before. He paid $3.50 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 trlfiing loss.
| Having read how the Peoples OUTFIT
ting Co. lures the public. l Will gladly
tell you that | am one of the victims.
! bought a Penlnsular base burner stove
Full NICKEL, and paid $40 cash for
the game After / received IL there was
only one-quarter OF nickel on the stove,
and hereby hope that others won't be
humbugged the same as L was
i 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
back every article. Thus they had the
goods. which had hardly been used,
and 5000 OF their customers money az
we'll. The customer had nothing.
Seeing your exposure OF the Peoples
Quitting Co. wish to tell you how
got stung by them l bought some
chairs paid cash ash for 81 piece ,,sI
brought the chairs to the house 1 never
saw such looking things. Some OF the
backs were crooked, and others with
though l was very mad. bought some
carpet and two rockers. When they
brought them they had been broken
them they broKe down. When they
came again l sent them back and lost
what | had paid on them. 1 told them
that l would never go in their store
again and ! never have.
What you see In the Peoples win
dow. OF in 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
ter:
My husband and l wen; TO the Peo-
pies Outhtting Co. when we were first
married to see, as we had seen In their
display, -four rooms furnished COM
pictures. draperies, gas range piano.
and a beautiful set of dishes In beua-
tiful china cabinet, rugs on the floors.
ilinoleum Oh the kitchen. In fact, every
thing almost a person could think OF to
DO with All you would have to do
would be TO light the fire and cook and
eat, IL would seem. but when IL came
to itsmizing 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 a
pedestal dining table. Manager No l
took US upstairs to see the table. $32.
OF course we could not afford 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 80 the table and
locked at the tag and, behold. II had
taken an awful slump-only $3.50. mo.
was new man" SAID No. ?, and did
not know"
looked at a refrigerator. No less
than three different men showed me the
same refrigerator at three different
prices. and bought one for Sl4.75 that
was started of at $3.50.
My husbands brother bought $3.50
worth OF furniture Of them for four
rooms, and on account of his wife's
ll-henlth had to move out west before
having finished his payments, and they
took II back after he had paid out 500
for the time they had IL
The new clerk was In evidence
again when the writer, whose letter
follows, called. Her experience shows,
also, the Peoples way of cooling on