论文部分内容阅读
许多年以前,在我还是一个二十来岁青年的时候,我在圣路易斯一家钢琴公司做推销员。我们的钢琴销往密苏里全州,方式是先在各小镇报纸上刊登广告,等收到一定数量的回信后,我们就用小货车载上钢琴,到回信人所在地区,卖给他们。每当广告在密苏里东南部的产棉区登出以后,我们都会收到一张明信片,上面写道“:请给我的小孙女带一架新钢琴来。一定要红木的。我可以用我卖鸡蛋的钱,每月付十块钱。”当然,我们是不会为了一个月十块钱而卖一架新钢琴的,没有信贷公司愿意为那么一点儿钱而承保合同,所以我们并没有理会她的明信片。
Many years ago, when I was a teenager, I was a salesman at a piano company in St. Louis. Our pianos are sold all over the state of Missouri by first placing advertisements in the towns newspapers, and after receiving a certain number of replies, we carry the pianos in the pickup truck and sell them to the area where the respondents are located. Whenever an advertisement is posted in the cotton district in southeastern Missouri, we receive a postcard stating: “Please bring a new piano to my little granddaughter. Be sure to mahogany. I can use it I sell eggs and pay ten bucks a month. ”Of course, we would not sell a new piano for ten dollars a month, and no credit company is willing to cover the contract for a little money, so we Did not care her postcard.