Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1925-07-23
WHY YOU SHOULD BUY
AT HOME
Contrib


If you want to make a purchase of
merchandise at home you go to your
merchant and see and examine the
article to know if you really want
and need it. In case said merchant
has the goods you need and like, you
buy them, and in case you have not
the cash to pay for said goods, and
you are responsible party, having
the reputation of paying your bills
promptly you can so state the facts
to your merchant and buy the goods
on 80 to 60 days time, in the mean
time using the wares while you are
getting yourself in shape to pay
You have helped your merchant by
giving him his small profit on the
purchases and helped yourself by get
ting the goods when needed But
you say we could save money by buy
ing from mail order house. | take
the position that you cannot, quality
considered. Mail order houses don OF
handle standard brand articles in any
class of merchandise, for instance
shoes. You cannot buy shoes of any
standard brand. Therefore you are
failing to buy standard goods at all
times. And again if you would give
your local merchant the business it
would give him a chance to buy in
greater quantities and buy cheaper
especially if you pay him cash for
all purchases as you are doing the
mail order houses.
With a mail order house you look
at a picture and read flattcring de-
scription, make out an order sheet,
go to the office, buy stamp, mail
your order and wait two weeks to
thirty days for the article to arrive.
Should it be a freight charge, go to
the R. R. station. pay the freight,
take your goods home and then ex-
anime and see if they are what you
thought you were buying. You at
least had to send the cash in some
form with your order and if the pur-
chase is not what you want, then the
goods must be returned and in the
course of time, say thirty days or
more, you may receive your money,
refunding your purchase price. Now
if you had bought the same goods at
home you could have used them for
at least thirty days while you were
waiting for the goods.
The mail order house has no per-
sonal interest in you or your COM
munity whatever. They pay no taxes
to help you defray the expenses of
your state and county government.
They take no interest whatever in
your health or that of your neighbor.
They do not care if you all die.
They have no part in your funeral or
burial ceremony. In fact all they
care for is getting the cash out of
you and try to make you believe you
are buying something at bargain
price. You might have all grades of
country produce, chickens, eggs, po-
tatoes, apples, butter, milk, and 9TH
er items for sale that you really do
not need for your home use, but they
care nothing for how muc hyou have
to waste, just so you continue to dig
up your cash and buy from them.
The local merchants buy these nee
essities from you and feeds his fam
lily from the product of your farm,
buys wood to keep his family warm
and to cook the vegetables you have
grown. He pays taxes to keep up
your school and your roads, makes
donations to your churches, helps
keep up the poor and needy and or
phans of the community But still the
people seem to think it right to pat
ronize the mail order houses. To be
fair, don't believe any honest think
ing person, if they would stop and
think soberly about these matters of
fact, would ever send another order
to any mail order house.
Stop where you, are and study the
above remarks and decide!