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To: mabarker1

Wellll ... RainX is good stuff. Been putting that on my windshields for 40 years!

And I haven’t bailed out of my truck while it was moving once. :)


82 posted on 09/21/2023 6:24:35 PM PDT by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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To: TigersEye

I was selling Auto Parts when it came on to the market. I was chastised by the Owners of the store (privately owned and I grew up with the youngest one, so everyone knew each other) and I had only ordered 2 cases of it to start with and see how the sales went. Most of the Owners didn’t think it would sell much less work as claimed.

Well both cases sold out in less than 2 weeks and Customers came back for more. (not the first item or time I proved to be correct on things)

The best one was when they didn’t want to take Credit Cards. I was losing several Big Ticket sales every week because of that decision. I’m talking Engine Rebuild parts to the tune of $500-$1000 per invoice, Brake Systems: master
cylinders, wheel cylinders, calipers or rebuild kits, pads, shoes, fluid again Hundreds of $$$$$ !!! I finally got with the 51% Owner one day on the phone when He called to check on things. I asked if we were ever going to take Credit Cards. He said not really because the banks wanted (at that time) 2-3% of the sale. (I’m a high school dropout BTW and this Owner was a Private Attorney with his own Practice for Corporate Clients) I told him that 98 or 97 % of something is better than 100% of NOTHING.

After about 20 seconds of silence He said “yeah You’re right but I never looked at it that way.”

We got CC Machines the next week. And this was back in the day of the machine being the card imprinter type and everything was done by hand and calling in to check if there was enough limit on the card at the time.


85 posted on 09/22/2023 1:40:39 AM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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