Subject: Franklin's Book Store
From: Unicorn (unicorn@indenial.com)
Date: Thu Jun 20 2002 - 20:23:00 EDT
"Salesmanship"
A realty salesman had just closed his first
deal, only to discover that the piece of
land he had sold was completely under water.
"That customer's going to come back here
pretty mad," he said to his boss. "Should I
give him his money back?"
"Money back? Are you crazy???" roared the
boss. "What kind of salesman are you? Get
out there and sell him a houseboat."
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"Franklin's Book Store"
One day a gentleman walked into one of Ben
Franklin's book stores. As one of the clerks
went to assist him, the gentleman asked the
clerk the price of the book he wished to
purchase. The young clerk looked at the price
posted on the book and said, "That book is one
dollar, sir."
The gentleman began to haggle with the clerk
over the price. The clerk assured him that the
correct price for the book was one dollar and
no lower. As the man realized that his efforts
to haggle with the clerk were going nowhere,
he insisted on speaking with Ben Franklin
directly.
Franklin stopped his work, walked out to the
storefront and the gentleman asked, "What is
the price of this book?"
Franklin answered, "One dollar and a quarter."
The gentleman was confused and replied,
"Your clerk just said it was a dollar."
Franklin looked at the book again and answered,
"Yes, it was a dollar. But now you're wasting
my time."
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