KINSEY'S KAPERS.

NZ Truth, Issue 111, 3 August 1907, Page 4

KINSEY'S 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 qr so photographs from Kinsey, Lambton Quay, and the fact might be borne home m a manner little dreamed of. Now, there are sharp businessmen, and there are men who are business sharpers, and whatev.er category, ivinsey, 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., the well-known city carrier, and his experience as related to "Truth" ought to be made public, so that 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, Mr Barley -stored some luggage, the -property of Colonel Loveday, at Kin* sey's studio. There, Mr Barley, who is an ex-member of the Fire Brigade, and who had 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 him have them. Nothing more was . heard of those photographs till the o'.h?r day, when they arrived at the carrier's residence. This was nearly three months after they were ordered. No account came with 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 Mr Barley received, per post, from that impudent concern, the Commercial Agency, Ltd.. run by that great and good citizen, MiHenry Wright, . an

EQUALLY IMPUDENT DEMAND for the sum of 6s 3d due to Kuisey, and a notification set out m flamins letters that it would be better to pay up to avoid legal proceedings. This impudent missive sure enough made the recipient very wild, and he promptly called on Kinsey. who, by the way, is some sort of a feather-bed hero officer m somemartial corps m Wellington . that doesn't long for active service. Kinsey was not to be seen at first, and though the carrier did succeed m seeing him, the dial-snatcher made some sort of miserable excuse for the gratuitous insult he had offered to Mr Barley. He gurgled out that nobody had, called for the photographs and he had accordingly posted them, but the sharp business man Kinsey could not offer one word m explanation of the fact that he had not rendered an account to his custompr, who would have promptly liquidated the debt. The man who eives 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 neoplc into paying their debts. Anyhow. Ihjose who deal m Kinsrv photojrraplis now know how liable ihev are to; be insulted. When Mr Barley wi-ote out his cheque for Cs 3d, or anyhow, when be uaid it over to the' Agency, he told that concern wh.it ..lie thought of the whole business, 'and the Agency ivsnonded that lie wr,s not the. only Kinsev customer v.iio hod so complained. It. 1-V.refnre, lonVs as if Kinsev is too si tarn n limc-jV^c; mpn to ? - etnin ITt> Hjonis i; f . li-sv TV no rfoitht. V> T iH ]i»i-'-^ -iiipir n l -v! -s 1-^-^n fl^wherp. ■i,t?d Mr Kinsey need not complain, either.