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- From: tspindle@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (tom spindler)
- Subject: Re: Discouragement from Locksmiths
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.065749.18076@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu>
- Organization: Northea$tern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA
- References: <yabi.12.722112997@ellis.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 06:57:49 GMT
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- > Don't you be telling me what I can and cannot do. I've often read that
- >locksmiths discourage people from learning to pick locks. They want to
- >keep their trade skills secret, so they can charge people crazy amounts
- >of money, like $50, to open a lock. That's wrong. I find locksmithing to
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- In "Locksmith Ledger", they encourage the promotion of the "locksmith
- mystique". For example, they tell you (the locksmith) to keep a lock
- around that's had the pins worn away by a non-burnished key duplicate,
- and to tell the customer how superior your copies are. It also tells
- that you should hide the key-duplicator from view, so the customers
- won't see how easy it is to dupe keys (my comment).
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- Good old Fear, Intimidation, and Doubt at work.
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