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He paused in the act of re-filling the customer's cup. "You do not believe, then?" The Tuscan looked at him with all the scarcely-veiled contempt of the North for the South. "You tell me you are a Calabrian. Si vede!
But the case differs materially in the debtor side of the account; for here the tradesman, who with all his boasts of keeping his books exactly, has yet no ledger, which being, as I have said, duly posted, should show every man's account at one view; and being done every week, left it scarce possible to omit any parcel that was once entered in the day-book or journal I say, the tradesman keeping no ledger, he looks over his day-book for the whole year past, to draw up the debtor side of his customer's account, and there being a great many parcels, truly he overlooks one or two of them, or suppose but one of them, and gives the chapman the account, in which he sums up his debtor side so much, suppose £136, 10s.: the chapman examining this by his book, as he did the cash, finds two parcels, one £7, 15s., and the other £9, 13s., omitted; so that by his own book his debtor side was £153, 18s.; but being a cunning sharp tradesman, and withal not exceeding honest, 'Well, well, says he to himself, 'if Mr G. says it is no more than £136, 10s. what have I to do to contradict him? it is none of my business to keep his books for him; it is time enough for me to reckon for it when he charges me. So he goes back to him the next day, and settles accounts with him, pays him the balance in good bills which he brought up with him for that purpose, takes a receipt in full of all accounts and demands to such a day of the month, and the next day comes and looks out another parcel of goods, and so begins an account for the next year, like a current chapman, and has the credit of an extraordinary customer that pays well, and clears his accounts every year; which he had not done had he not seen the advantage, and so strained himself to pay, that he might get a receipt in full of all accounts.
Denys carried his love of country so far as to walk twenty leagues in shoes that had exploded, rather than buy of a German churl, who would throw all manner of obstacles in a customer's way, his incivility, his dinner, his body. Towards sunset they found themselves at equal distances from a little town and a monastery, only the latter was off the road.
He spread out the magnificent piece of cherry-colored satin, and then unfolded his design for a 'pour-point, like a 'Milan cuirass. Says Gautier, using always his quaint editorial we, 'It has been said that we know a great many words, but we don't know words enough to express the astonishment of our tailor when we lay before him our plan for a waistcoat. The man of shears had doubts as to his customer's sanity.
She took charge of her customer's figures, and made their corsets, and lectured them if they allowed nature to get the upper hand.
The thing to do is to make your man feel that his requirement is important simply because it is his requirement. "A good salesman keeps his own personality in the background: he keeps the store and the sale in the background. He puts all the emphasis on service to the customer, and to do this he must mentally put himself in the customer's place.
You shall eat heartily and with zest, and you shall rise from the table refreshed, invigorated, and cheerful." "Just the very thing I want," exclaims the gourmet delightedly. "Tell me the price." "The price," answers Mrs. Nature, "is one long day's hard work." The customer's face falls; he handles nervously his heavy purse. "Cannot I pay for it in money?" he asks.
Benson," he said, and paused for a moment before he went on: "It is the foundation principle of business that a reputation for trustworthiness can be built only on the rock of real merit. The appearance of the store must not tell one lie not one from front door to back not even the shadow of a lie. Nothing must be left to the customer's discretion.
Harum handed it back, indicating John with a motion of his thumb. The latter took it, looked at the face and back, marked his initials on it with a pencil, and the man went out to the counter. "If you was fixed so 't you could git away fer a spell," said David a moment or two after the customer's departure, "where would you like to go?" "I have not thought about it," said John rather listlessly.
No conversation was necessary, merely the selection of a scent and the exchange of a sum of money. Rashid retired to wrap up the purchase, and with it a second and smaller package was slipped into the customer's hand. That the prices charged were excessive nay, ridiculous did not concern Rita, for, in common with the rest of her kind, she was careless of expenditure.
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