human
Good morning, Mr. Smith,
gpt
Good morning, responded the latter.
human
I am glad you came today, Mr. Woodman, for we have an unusually large supply of stamps on hand.
gpt
The market is very much overstocked at present, replied Woodman, unslinging his satchel, and resting it on the desk.
human
I bought a thousand dollars' worth of stamps yesterday from one party at five per cent off.
gpt
Five per cent,
human
Yes, five per cent.
gpt
And you expect to buy from us at that rate?
human
I wish I could pay you more, but my money is all tied up now--the market is glutted, fairly glutted.
gpt
I should think it would be, when you buy them in thousand dollar lots.
human
Well, that does seem like a large amount of stamps, but I know of one lot--a ten thousand dollar lot--that I could buy within an hour, if I had the money to put into them.
gpt
You could never get rid of so many, Woodman,
human
Oh, yes, I could work them off sooner or later, and would get par for most of them too.
gpt
How do you do it?
human
I put them up in small lots of fifty cents and a dollar, and upwards, and sell them to my customers. Of course, when I buy big lots I do a little wholesaling, but I put away all I cannot sell at the time.
gpt
They are sure to go sooner or later, I suppose,
human
Oh, yes, sure to sell. During the summer months very few stamps come into the market.
gpt
And this gives you an opportunity to work off your surplus stock?
human
Yes.
gpt
I presume you sell as a rule to stores and business offices.
human
Yes; I have a regular line of customers who buy all of their stamps off me--customers that I worked up myself.
gpt
And they prefer buying of you to going to the post office for their supply?
human
Certainly; for I give them just as good stamps, and by buying of me they save themselves the trouble of going to the post office for them.