6 DEPARTMENT CIECULAE 413, XJ. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 



DISPOSITION OF REJECTED CARS 



An analysis was made of the methods of sale employed in disposing 

 of cars originally sold f. o. b. but rejected and resold at less than the 

 original price. (Table 4.) As an average for the three-year period 

 approximately 30 per cent of these cars were sold at auction, between 

 10 and 11 per cent were consigned and about 60 per cent were sold to 

 other buyers. The fact that 40 per cent of these shipments were sold 

 through the auction or were consigned indicates that sellers have 

 experienced difficulty in finding buyers for rejected cars. 



Table 4.- 



-Method of resale of cars which were rejected and resold at less than 

 original price 





Method of resale 



Season 



Auction 



Consigned 



Sold to 

 other buy- 

 ers 



1922-23 



Per cent 

 34.4 

 25.3 

 29.5 



Per cent 

 14.3 

 9.6 

 8.2 



Per cent 

 51 3 



1923-24- 



65 1 



1924-25- .-- 



62.3 







Average 



29.7 



10,7 



59 6 







REASONS FOR REJECTIONS AND ALLOWANCES 



Buyers' reasons for rejections and requests for allowances are shown 

 in Table 5. In many instances several reasons were given by the 

 buyer for rejecting a shipment. In such cases the most important 

 reason, if it could be determined, was tabulated. Decay and scald, 

 and decay and overripeness were often of equal importance. Where 

 the relative weight of the factors was difficult of mterpretation they 

 could not be listed separately. 



The terms ''quality" and "condition" as used by the trade seemed 

 to be synonymous and included such factors as decay, scald, internal 

 breakdown, and overmaturity. ^\Tien buyers used either of these 

 terms, it was often impossible to determine the particular factor 

 which influenced them to ask for an allowance or to reject the car. 



In 1922-23, approximately 80 per cent of all rejections and allow- 

 ances were granted on account of complaints of poor condition (decay, 

 overripeness, scald, freezing, internal breakdown, and water core) as 

 compared with approximately 13 per cent on account of complaints 

 regarding grade and pack (color, bruises, sizing, etc.). In 1923-24, 

 about 43 per cent of the rejections and allowances were on account of 

 complaints by buyers relating to condition factors, and about 20 per 

 cent were classified under grade factors. For the year 1924-25, con- 

 dition factors were given as reasons by buyers for almost 69 per cent 

 of the rejections, and grade factors were listed as reasons in about 11 

 per cent of the cases. For the three-year period, condition factors 

 were given as reasons for rejections in 63.6 per cent of the cases, grade 

 factors in 14.6 per cent, and miscellaneous reasons in 21.8 per cent of 

 the cases. 



