KINSETS KAPERS.

NZ Truth, Issue 110, 27 July 1907, Page 6

KINSETS KAPERS.

HOW CUSTOMERS ARE INSULTED. Some Sharp Business Practises. Everybody knows the fact that there is no sentiment m business,, and if any should be ignorant of the fact they, should learn, and the best way to learn is to order a dozen or so photographs from Kinsey, Lambton Quay, and the fact might be borne borne m a manner little dreamed of. Now, there are sharp business men, and there are men who are business sharpers, and whatever category, Kinsey, the dial-taker is to be placed m, is for the reader to decide. Kinsey is as sharp as a needle, judging from the way he treated a customer, Mr Fred Barley, tbe well-known city carrier, and bis experience as related to "Truth" ought to be made public, so tbat Kinsey 's clients ought to know what to expect. At the close of the Christchurch big circus, or Exhibition, or Munro, or Mclntyre, or whatever the affair was called, MiBarley stored some luggage, the property of Colonel Loveday, at Kinscy's studio. There, Mr Barley, who is an ex-member of the Fire Brigade, and who bad his photograph taken some time before, asked if it was possible to -get three fresh copies, and Kinsey, the cute, said if the plate was still m existence he would let bim have them. Nothing more was heard of those photographs till the ollisr day, when tbey. arrived at -the carrier's residence. This was nearly three months after tbey were ordered. No account came *witb them, and, no doubt, Kinsey knows, or ought to know, that Mr Barley is a good mark, and if he doesn't know it, others do. Therefore, when the next morning Mv Barley received, per post, from that impudent concern, the Commercial Agency, Ltd.. run by 'that great and good citizen, Mr Henry Wright, an

EQUALLY IMPUDENT DEMAND for the sum of 6s 3d due to Kinsey, and a notification set out m flaming letters that it Would, be better to pay up to avoid legal proceedings. This impudent missive sure enough made tbe recipient very wild, and he promptly called on Kinsey. who, by thc way, is some sort bf a feather-bed hero officer m some martial corps m- Wellington that doesn't long for active service. K,insey was not to be seen at first, and though the carrier did succeed m seeing him, the dial-snatcber made some sort of miserable excuse for the gratuitous insult he had offered to Mr Barley, He gurgled out that nobody had called for tbe photographs and be bad accordingly posted them, but the sharp business man Kinsey could not offer one word m explanation of the fact that be had not rendered an account to bis customer, who would have promptly liquidated the debt. The man who gives his debts out to be collected by . a firm such as the Commercial Agency, Ltd., will do anything .that is paltry and contemptible. Of course, the Agency is not to be blamed. It is it's business to bluff people into paying their debts. Anyhow, those who deal m Kinsey photographs now know how liable tbey are to be insulted. When Mr Barley wrote out his cheque -for Cs 3d, or anyhow, when be paid it- over to the Agency, he told that concern what he thought of the whole business, and the Agency responded that he was not the only Kinsey customer who had so complained. It. therefore, looks as if Kinsey is too sharp a business man to retain the clients be has. They, no doubt, will bave their photos taken elsewhere, and Mr. Kinsey need not complain, either.*