Avoid One-Dollar Sales Schemes
By JULIA E. GREEN
JULIA E. GREEN: Whether the one-dollar sales to which you refer is a lottery or not, we are not prepared to say; but think it is better to buy the goods we want of those who we know are doing an honorable business. The different ways in which unprincipled men, who are in haste to get rich, present their wares to the public, is legion. As a safe rule, we think it best to avoid all schemes, whatever may be their form, where the inducement is held out that in any possible contingency we may receive more than one dollar's worth of goods for one dollar in money. The object of all who hold out these inducements, is to make money; consequently, if any one receives more than what he has given a fair equivalent for, some one else must be defrauded to just that extent; and this part of the story is what is not generally told to the public.