by Outaservice 6 Replies latest jw friends
The Society used to encourage publishers to try and trade goods, (soap, eggs, food. etc.) for literature if the householder had no money. Did you ever do this, and what did you trade for if you did?
I gave them this for a magazine.................http://egg.d21c.com/egg.swf
Outaservice
Well, I hope they got more than I got...I got a blank page.
Wouldn't open.
Hubert
Hubert, we have got to get you a new computor!
Outaservice
That sounds good to me !!!!
I must need a new computer too! That link didn't work for me either.
Believe it or not--when I was working unassigned territory a few years ago, I traded a book for some goose eggs.
Do you think the WTS would have allowed the rank and file to bring bars of soap, eggs, sugar, etc., to pay for their magazines at the KH?
I never did it unless the person at the door suggested it; usually I just gave the magazines to them if they said they would read them. There was a time when I was a regular pioneer where I only paid 1 penny for each magazine and "placed" them for 5 (later 10) cents. But you didn't get rich quick.
This practice developed during the depression years when people had little cash or money or in poorer countries. Can you imagine that the "donation arrangement" for literature started in 1990 in the richer countries such as the US and it was until 2000 that the poorer JWs in other countries could just "donate."
*** yb83 p. 51 Australia ***
Literature was left at a low rate or traded for produce. On many occasions the pioneers returned to their central camp at night to find that one would have some potatoes, another a pumpkin, another eggs, meat, and so forth. This was regarded as even better than money, as it could be eaten. With sufficient clothing, food and shelter the pioneers were content and could continue the witness work.
*** yb76 p. 253 Sri Lanka *** (VOMIT ALERT)
Brother Henschel’s loving counsel certainly was appreciated. So was his suggestion on trading literature for whatever the people have, if they lack money. Thereafter, it was interesting to see publishers returning from field service with rice, coconuts, eggs, soap, clothes and the like. Having given something in exchange for the publications, the people were more likely to value them.
*** yb75 pp. 152-153 Part 2—United States of America ***
Money was scarce, but honest-hearted ones needed the joyous message of Scriptural truth. If individuals were unable to contribute for Bible literature, Jehovah’s witnesses often left it with them free. But this could not always be done. What was an alternative? Margaret M. Bridgett recalls: "We traded for produce such as eggs, butter, fresh and canned fruits, chickens, maple syrup; and I traded for needlework—quilt tops, cushion tops, tatting and homemade rugs. Sometimes I could trade some of these things for my room rent. . . . [Years later] I attended a Gilead [missionary school] graduation and a sister was there who had gotten a set of books from me by trading quilt tops. She got the truth and was then a pioneer [full-time preacher] and her son was interested."
Blondie
*** km 1/78 p. 4 New Literature Rates ***
As announced in OurKingdomService last month, as of January 1, 1978, the Watchtower and Awake! subscriptions will increase in price to $2.00 for a year’s subscription and $1.00 for six months. At the same time the individual copies of the magazines will be offered for 10 cents per copy in the United States. Prices of individual copies to the congregations and pioneers in this country will be double what they were, namely, 8 cents to the congregations and 2 cents to the pioneers.
