WHO DO YOU LET
INTO YOUR POCKETS?
(Part one of a two-part series)
Who determines what you buy?
Is it you, a trusted friend, a re
spected business person, or is it
high pressure sales people, con
artists, or other people of ques
tionable character?
Do you have a plan that guides
family and farm decisions? Do
your plans dictate what you buy,
or are your decisions made on a
whim, and are you easily swayed
by passionate sales pitches of slick
sales people?
For the most part, you are in
control of what you need to buy.
You can determine which sales
people you want to talk to and
when. You can insist on refer
ences and time to check them out
and time to make up your mind.
Good sales people will respect
your right to do this. They’ll re
spect your time, and they’ll try to
find out what your interests and
goals are so they can work with
you as a long-term, trusted team
player.
Let’s discuss some ideas which
may serve as guidelines for spend
ing your hard earned dollars wise-
1. Deals that sound too good to
be true probably are, and should
be viewed with suspicion.
2. Be a good shopper. Many
products are peddled door to door
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Lancaster Extension
Dairy Agent
and sold at prices that may be 10
to 20 times as high as what you
can buy from your regular suppli
er or service person. You don’t
have to make on-the-spot deci
sions. Get the information you
need to check things out A reput
able salesperson can usually be
contacted later.
3. Deal with reputable people
and businesses, who will be avail
able to service what they sell.
When you deal with local people
who have to gain your respect be
cause they see you and your
neighbors week after week; they
have to be accountable for their
actions or they won’t be in busi
ness.
4. Be suspicious when a strang
er asks you to make payments in
cash or to an individual rather than
to a business. Can they be trusted?
5. Be suspicious of unknown
businesses dial have only a post
office box for an address. What is
their street address, and does the
place actually exist?
6. Be wary of people who re
fuse to give you their name, ad
dress and phone number, and re
ferences you can check. If you
have their address, you can con-'
tact local officials for more infor
mation.
7. Be careful who you give
credit card numbers, checking ac
count numbers and financial infor-
mation.
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8. Think twice about giving ad
vance payments to strangers. Will
they take your money and run?
Pay for the product or service after
it has been satisfactorily deliver
ed. Do you need a solid guaran
tee?
9. Many reputable businesses
do not require trusted customers to
pay a security deposit to hold a
product for you while you shop
around, or while you take time to
make up your mind. If you do pay
a deposit will they pay it back if
you change your mind, or will you
be swayed to make a purchase you
really did not want to make or
should not make just so you don’t
lose your deposit? Be careful not
to get trapped by these tactics. Re
putable businesses do not exert
undue pressure; they welcome
your business tomorrow as well as
today.
10. Never sign a blank contract
or agreement. It’s always good to
be sure you read and understand
what you sign.
11. Be wary of strangers who
offer to inspect your home and
property to determine repairs
needed. They usually find some
thing and then offer to do them
at great savings. Are the repairs
actually needed? Are they compe
tent people? What quality mater
ials will they use and what guaran
tees are they willing to back and
how do you get in touch with them
later to request service or file com
plaints? Are these people burglars
who need a good excuse to scout
your premises, or to distract you
while someone else is walking off
with your possessions? As men
tioned before, it’s safer to deal
with local, known, reputable peo
ple.
12. Also be wary of people who
oversell untested, unregistered
and unlabeled products, as a cure
all for just about everything, and
are reluctant to show extensive
and unbiased research data on
their products. Some are reput
able; others may not be. Rather
than to show proof that their pro
duct is registered and effective for
the uses they propose, they use se-
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lected testimonials or talk down
other products. They may claim
that university and governmental
researchers are bought off by big
companies, and are involved in a
conspiracy to suppress them and
other “little guys.” Should you
think these sales people are as
credible as the people they are
running down? Perhaps they are
fearful that their product will not
show up well under rigid and ob
jective testing. Do you really want
to risk the cost of using untested
products?
HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.)
The Susquehanna River Basin
Commission met recently at the
Robert J. Bielo Building in
Harrisuburg.
Actions taken by the Commis
sion included:
1. Review of staff accomplish
ments for the first six months of
FY-94 and the approval of a new
set of staff goals for the second six
months of the fiscal year.
2. Recognition of U.S. Com
missioner John R. McCarty and
Coips Baltimore District Asst.
Chief of Planning Harold Nelson
for their many contributions to the
Commission. Mr. McCarty has
retired as federal commissioner,
and Harold Nelson is discontinu
ing his role as a Corps representa
tive and assistant federal advisor
to the federal commissioner.
3. Recognition of Mr. David
Yaeck, retiring executive director
of the Chester County Water
Resources Authority.
4, Adoption of staff recommen
dations with respect to project
applications submitted by Snow
Shoe Borough Authority, Aatons
burg Water Pipes Inc., McClure
Municipal Authority, and Dau
phin County General Authority.
The Commission added condi-
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13. Be sure your invoices are
for things you actually purchased
and have not yet paid for. Scout
your invoices for errors. Also be
ware of solicitations and bogus
bills that are made to look like real
invoices,-which con artists may
use in hopes of tricking you into
writing them a check.
The next article will continue
with this discussion and conclude
with a listing of agencies and or
ganizations that can be contacted
for mote information and help.
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SRBC
Meets
tions to the General Authority
docket requiring installation of an
additional monitoring well and
setting forth a list of possible
remedies to be ordered in the
event of future problems.
S. Imposition of a penalty of
$5OO on Schuylkill Energy
Resources Inc. for failure to make
timely payment of the Commis
sion’s consumptive use and com
pliance monitoring fees. The com
pany pledged its future coopera
tion and apologized for the delays.
The following items were pre
sented under the reports/
discussion portion of the meeting:
1. The executive director high
lighted the staff report;
2. The Chief Engineer reported
on basinwide hydrologic condi
tions; and
3. Mr. John F. Wilson, of Md.
Department of Natural Resources,
reported on efforts to establish a
“Lower Susquehanna River Herit
age Greenway” on a reach of the
Susquehanna River between Con
owingo Dam and the mouth of the
river at Havre de Grace, Md.
The next meeting of the Com
mission is tentatively scheduled
for March at the Commission
headquarters in Harrisburg, Pa.
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