Oh Really, Riley? | The Story of Riley's Trick Shop and the Family Behind It

Name: Oh Really, Riley? | The Story of Riley's Trick Shop and the Family Behind It
Author: Jim Riley
ISBN: 9781450265478

Jim Riley

Lingua: inglese

Editore: iUniverse, 2010

1450265472 / 9781450265478

Brossura
Nuovo

Visualizza tutti i dettagli

Da: preigu, Osnabrück, Germaniapreigu

Venditore con 5 stelle

Venditore AbeBooks dal 5 agosto 2024

Visualizza gli articoli di questo venditore

Brossura

Condizione: Nuovo

EUR 19,30

EUR 70,00 spedizione

Spedito da Germania a U.S.A.

Quantità: 5 disponibili

Aggiungi al carrello

Resi gratuiti per 30 giorni

Lista dei preferitiCrea un desiderata per articoli simili

Descrizione dell’articolo da parte del venditore

Codice articolo 114035334

Contatta il venditore per questo articolo

Segnala questo articolo

Titolo: Oh Really, Riley? | The Story of Riley's Trick Shop and the Family Behind It
Autore: Jim Riley
Editore: iUniverse
Anno di pubblicazione: 2010
Condizione: Neu
Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
Lingua: inglese
ISBN 10: 1450265472
ISBN 13: 9781450265478
Peso dell'articolo: 287 grammi
Dimensioni: 229 x 152 x 11 mm
Cataloghi dei venditori: Bücher

Estratto. © Ristampato con autorizzazione. Tutti i diritti riservati.

OH REALLY, RILEY?

The Story of Riley's Trick Shop and the Family Behind ItBy JIM RILEY

iUniverse, Inc.

Copyright © 2010 Jim Riley
All right reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4502-6547-8

Chapter One

IN THE BEGINNING

James Joseph Robert Riley was born on Chicago's East Side on September 16, 1908, and grew up in the area near 92nd and Commercial, a gritty neighborhood of steel mills, docks, and taverns. His parents, James Riley and Anna Malloy, arrived from County Mayo, Ireland, sometime in the 1890's. He was the youngest of three children. His brother, Martin, would go on to work at the water filtration plant near Rainbow Beach on Lake Michigan. His sister, Mary, taught in the Chicago Public Schools for 42 years. Jim started working at an early age, selling The Industrialist, the organ of the International Workers of the World, also known as the Wobblies. It seems strange that this future entrepreneur would hawk a paper that espoused the overthrow of capitalism but, hey, a buck's a buck.

He didn't talk much about his early years except that he was an altar boy at St. Patrick's Church on Ewing Avenue and graduated from St. Pat's school in 1925. That's what it said on the roadmap-sized diploma we found among his things. Not everyone graduates grammar school at the age of seventeen but he never liked school anyway. After a semester at Mt. Carmel High School he was expelled for shooting dice in the hallway. From then on it was work, work, work. His mother once told him he'd never die in bed.

It was around this time that his father died in an accident involving a Chicago Transportation Authority street car. Depending on which relative you ask, he either walked in front of the car where the motorman didn't see him and ran him over or he slipped going out the door and had a fatal head injury. For that, the CTA paid Anna the princely sum of $600. Anna passed away in 1944.

Jim made friends wherever he went but his life-long pals were from the South Chicago neighborhood. In most cities they're called gangs but in Chicago they're referred to as "social clubs." His was called "The Chevaliers." As adults, they dispersed around the country but always kept in touch. On our summer road trips, we made stops in places like Albuquerque, San Francisco, Seattle, and Ft. Lauderdale to stop by and say hello. Sometimes that hello would result in being put up for three days or more.

Jim Riley, seated at left with The Chevaliers, late 20's. Jim knocked around a series of jobs in the 20's and early 30's eventually winding up in the grocery business at the Piggly-Wiggly. Their stores had a unique setup: once the customer entered, she had to traverse a serpentine path to the checkout which required her to pass every item on the shelves. This clever piece of marketing probably led to more things in her grocery basket than were on the original list. These were not the warehouse-sized super megamarkets we frequent today. Grocery stores occupied one or two storefronts on a busy street. There were no parking lots. If you were lucky enough to own a car, you parked on the street. Most people walked, carrying their purchases in a grocery bag or dragging folding two-wheeled carts behind them for larger orders. A shopping cart never left the store. Jim worked himself up to manager of a National Tea store and that's where he met his future wife.

Eleanor Virginia Borgeson, the only child of Nathaniel (Nate) Borgeson and Ellen Ahlin, was born in Chicago on March 3, 1915. Nate emigrated here from Goteborg, Sweden, in 1905. Total cost for the ship to New York and train to Chicago was $48. You can bet it wasn't first class. Eleanor was an avid historian and the original documents were in the papers she left. Nate and Ellen married in 1913.

The family moved to Lockport, Illinois, where Eleanor grew up. Like Jim she was a hard worker who got up at 4 a.m. to walk from her house at Jefferson and Division down the hill to a bakery on State Street to help start the baking for the day. From there she went to school.

The same year that Jim's father died, Eleanor's mother succumbed to food poisoning after eating an apple from a tree that had been sprayed with insecticide. Nate died in 1948 while my mother was carrying me. I never got to meet any of my grandparents.

Eleanor graduated from Lockport High School in 1932 and moved back to Chicago with her father. She eventually went to work in the grocery business. It was at the National Tea where she met Jim.

Being Irish, Jim was always quick with a story but it was hard to tell if he was telling the truth or just making it up for effect. The story of how he and Eleanor got engaged is typical. One evening, so the story goes, he was having dinner with Eleanor and Nate at their place. Nate asked Jim if he wanted another pork chop. At the same time Eleanor asked him if he wanted to marry her. When he said "yes" he got a pork chop and a fiancee.

Jim's sister had purchased a piece of property west of Twin Lakes near Dowagiac, Michigan, in 1929. She originally wanted to build a cottage near the lake but her mother suggested she build on a hill to get the breeze. The summer humidity could be stifling. The cottage had two bedrooms with two beds each in back and a combination living room, dining room and kitchen in front. It had indoor plumbing but water had to be pumped from a well by hand. The dining/living room had sofas and chairs but the centerpiece was a huge, round wooden table, the kind supported in the center by a heavy pedestal with ornate carved feet. It was the gathering place where many a poker hand was played, story swapped, meal enjoyed, and beer consumed. Mary covered the outside of the cottage with a unique shape of shingle in shamrock green. They named the place WeLikeIt.

Like it they did. Jim and Eleanor would close the National at 8 p.m. Saturday night and pile whoever could fit in his Oldsmobile to head up there to enjoy a summer Sunday. Some even made the four-hour trip standing on the running boards when the seats were full. It's a good bet that not much sleeping went on but everyone was back at work Monday morning.

RHODES AVENUE

A Store Is Born

Chicago is based, thanks to Daniel Burnham's master plan, on a grid of major streets a mile apart. East and west there are 16 streets to a mile, north and south, eight. Store fronts and offices are at ground level on the major streets with apartments or more offices above. On side streets there were sometimes stores between the main street and a parallel alley. It was next to the alley on the east side of one of those side streets in the Chatham neighborhood (or St. Dorothy's parish if you were Catholic) between Cottage Grove and South Park, south of 79th Street, that Jim Riley and Eleanor Borgeson opened their store on Sunday, March 21, 1937. The address was 7909 Rhodes. Their first customer was Irene Keller, the wife of Joe Keller who owned Keller's Tap around the corner on 79th Street.

By today's standards it wasn't much of a store. It seemed big to me when I was a kid but I was only eight when we left. By looking at some old pictures and making some very uneducated guesses I estimate it couldn't have been more than 20 feet wide and 30 to 40 feet deep. The front was two display windows flush with the sidewalk. Two more windows angled toward a door in the middle. Inside the door to the right were glass and wood showcases. That was the counter where business was transacted. Behind them against the wall were shelves. The lower half was filled with drawers originally used as storage for 5x8 index cards. The upper half was where larger items were kept. To the left of the door were taller glass showcases that angled back from the floor. They may have come from a bakery or candy store. None of it was new. All the cases were originally filled with stationery, greeting cards, board games, and notions. Notions are defined as "small, useful items or sundries." Since Eleanor was a seamstress, there were lots of sewing items like packages of needles, thread and thimbles. Basically, it was a general store. They even took in laundry and shipped packages.

In a throwback to his gambling days that got him kicked out of high school, Jim somehow got the phone number Stewart 7411, as in "seven for eleven." He kept that number until 1965. The phone company inserted a 3 before the 7 when phone numbers went from six to seven digits.

The small back room became their home after they were married. There was no living together ahead of time in those days. Their view, through iron security bars, was the single-car garages allotted to each tenant and the underside of the wooden staircase leading to the back porch of the second floor apartments. In later years Jim would proudly say that he never parked a car in a garage. His garage was for storing merchandise or "stock" as he called it. There was no bathtub or shower. They had to bathe in a metal tub filled with water dragged by the bucketful from the bathroom sink. For their bedroom Jim brought home a bed, dresser, and vanity he found in the alley. We still have them. Their first purchase was a small Frigidaire refrigerator for $99.00. In later years it became Jim's beer refrigerator. It was still in use when they had their 50th anniversary party.

Three weeks after the store opened, they were married on Sunday, April 11, 1937, at Our Lady of Peace Church at 79th and Jeffrey. It wasn't much of a wedding. Since Eleanor wasn't Catholic they couldn't be married in the sanctuary. Instead they had a small ceremony in the rectory with Jim's cousin Dan Malloy and his sister Mary as best man and maid of honor. A small reception netted them a whopping $15.00 in gifts. And so they embarked on a journey that lasted almost 65 years.

How's Tricks?

Riley's didn't start off as a trick shop but it wasn't long before its destiny was set. Jim had a popcorn machine like the ones in the theater, with a glass front where you could watch the popcorn pop. Where he kept it in that tiny store is a mystery. People would stop by to pick up a bag or box before heading to the Rhodes Theater across 79th Street between Rhodes and St. Lawrence. When the theater manager found out why his popcorn sales were so low he came into Riley's and offered Jim $75 for the wagon. Jim took that windfall and invested it in a line of tricks, jokes, and magic from the S.S. Adams Company of Neptune, New Jersey. And so a kernel of popcorn expanded into Riley's Trick Shop.

The Rhodes Theater is long gone. Riley's still carries the Adams line but the one hundred year old company was recently purchased by Magic Makers who moved it to their headquarters in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

When that first box of tricks from Adams arrived, Jim was like a kid on Christmas morning. He opened every item and played with it until he knew what it did and how it worked. He was especially intrigued by the magic tricks. The stationery and other items of the original stock were pushed into smaller spaces and replaced by items from Adams and other novelty companies. It wasn't long before everyone on the South Side knew that Riley's Trick Shop was the place for jokes and magic.

The Early Years

Even though the Depression had eased somewhat, the country didn't fully recover until the wartime economy brought about by World War II. The late thirties were not the best time to start a business but the store did well. The ledger from 1937 showed that they took in a whopping $1800 for the month of October, their first Halloween. In later Halloweens we'd do that much in an hour. The ledger also showed their monthly bills: telephone $2.62, electricity $3.28, rent $45.00.

In front of the store there was a parkway between the sidewalk and Rhodes Avenue. Nate built a couple of benches and set them facing each other in the parkway. Nate worked at the store, too. Many a slow hour was spent on those benches in warmer weather. It wouldn't surprise anyone if more than one beer was consumed during those hours, too. They could keep an eye on the entrance to the store and listen for the phone while swapping stories and visiting with neighbors passing by.

There was no air conditioning so a screen door provided what breeze there might be to cool the store. Screen doors in those days were basically a wood frame of one by threes with mesh attached to it. A long spring was the closer and it would slam the door multiple times if you didn't hold it on its return. The sound was a resounding WHAP followed by several quieter and more closely-spaced whaps. Every kid must have heard at least a thousand times growing up, "Don't slam the (WHAP) door."

Always one to take advantage of an opportunity to play a joke, Jim put a second handle on the other side of the screen door. The unwary customer had a 50-50 chance of getting the right one. If he grabbed the wrong one he'd look like a fool when the door didn't open.

Another door joke was a fake doorbell. It looked just like any other doorbell that was common in those days, round with a button in the middle. Just about every home had one so no one would question one on Riley's door frame. Jim's button had one big difference: there was a pin in the middle. When the button was pushed, the visitor got his finger pricked and it usually drew blood. Imagine trying to get away with that these days.

We don't sell that any more but we still sell the auto bomb, a cardboard cylinder with a wire running through it. One end of the wire is attached to a spark plug and the other to any metal ground on the car. When that plug fires, the wire heats up and ignites the charge inside. It whistles like one of those World War II bombs coming down, then smoke pours out from under the hood. In those days it exploded, too.

Jim had a setup with Nick Manola who owned the barber shop next door that one of them would distract a customer while the other put one of these bombs on his car. Cars back then had no hood locks and the motors were simple affairs where everything was out in the open. An auto bomb could be installed in under 30 seconds, even on a bad day. When the customer started his car and the bomb went off, Jim and Nick ran out of their stores and doused the victim's car with buckets of water they kept near their front doors.

Another running gag he had with Nick was to pretend he was waiting for a hair cut and get into an argument with him while the victim was being shaved. As the argument got more heated, Nick would wave his just-stropped straight razor around the victim's face in mock anger. At the climax Jim would get up and push Nick as he dragged the razor across the victim's throat. Of course, he would have secretly secured the blade in the razor's handle. The victim would jump out the chair screaming as Nick and Jim rolled howling on the floor. This continued until the inevitable happened. Nick didn't get the razor fully-secured in time and sliced the victim's ear. Today this would have resulted in a lawsuit, but the victim became a good customer of both businesses—once the bleeding stopped.

The late thirties were a heady time for Jim and Eleanor. The business was growing and they were having a blast. There were the weekend trips to the WeLikeIt cottage and long vacations on the road.

In 1938 they packed up their '36 Olds and headed west. Road trips in those days were not the luxurious affairs they are today. Cars had no air conditioning and were notoriously unreliable. Radios were an expensive option. Interstates highways had yet to be thought of and most roads were two-lane highways that passed through every little town on the way. In other words, a road trip was an adventure.

It was probably because car travel was such an adventure that Jim and Eleanor made friends everywhere they went. If an upcoming section of highway was especially difficult or desolate, caravans would sometimes form at the "last chance" service station. If a car broke down or had a flat tire on the way, there would be someone to help. Over a meal or drink at a diner at the other end they would exchange addresses and promise to write. Eleanor kept that promise and spent her Sunday mornings writing to these folks for the rest of her life.

Motels were few and far between in those days. One night they had to share a room in some town in the middle of nowhere. It was getting dark and the road ahead was treacherous even in the daytime. Since it was the last room for miles in any direction they decided to share it with another couple, a cab driver and his wife, who were also looking at a night sleeping in their car. For a little privacy they found a way to hang a sheet between the two beds. There was no TV. Small town radio stations usually shut down after dark so the only entertainment was talking. The cabbie, who was used to chatting up his fares, talked all night. Every time he wanted to make a point he'd poke his head around the sheet. It's a good bet that nobody got much sleep that night. If they exchanged addresses in the morning it's a better bet that couple didn't make Eleanor's short list for writing back.

(Continues...)

Excerpted from OH REALLY, RILEY?by JIM RILEY Copyright © 2010 by Jim Riley. Excerpted by permission of iUniverse, Inc.. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
Excerpts are provided by Dial-A-Book Inc. solely for the personal use of visitors to this web site.

"Descrizione articolo" può appartenere a un’altra edizione di questo titolo.

preigu

Osnabrück, Germania

Venditore con 5 stelle

Venditore AbeBooks dal 5 agosto 2024

Tariffe di spedizione da Germania a U.S.A.

Articolo	Da 60 a 60 giorni lavorativi	Da 60 a 60 giorni lavorativi
Primo articolo	EUR 70,00	EUR 70,00

I tempi di consegna sono stabiliti dai venditori e variano in base al corriere e al paese. Gli ordini che devono attraversare una dogana possono subire ritardi e spetta agli acquirenti pagare eventuali tariffe o dazi associati. I venditori possono contattarti in merito ad addebiti aggiuntivi dovuti a eventuali maggiorazioni dei costi di spedizione dei tuoi articoli.

Metodi di pagamento

PayPal

Descrizione dello Store

preigu betreibt einen Onlineversandhandel mit über 1 Mio. Produkten in verschiedenen Sortimenten. Das Kernsortiment besteht aus Büchern, Medien und Spielwaren. Ein gelungenes Einkaufserlebnis ist das Ziel einer jeden Bestellung bei preigu, denn der Kunde und seine Zufriedenheit stehen an erster Stelle. preigu setzt daher auf einen kompetenten Kundenservice, funktionierende Prozesse und schnelle Reaktion.

Specializzazione

Bücher, Spielwaren

Informazioni sull’azienda del venditore

preigu GmbH & Co. KG

Lengericher Landstraße 19
Osnabrück, Germania 49078

About Us

Legal website operator identification:

preigu GmbH & Co. KG
Lengericher Landstr. 19
49078 Osnabrück
Germany

Telephone: +49 (0) 541 / 580 72 84
Email: mail@preigu.de

VAT No: DE 455 380 498
AG Osnabrück - HRA 209647

PhG: preigu Verwaltung GmbH
AG Osnabrück - HRB 221793
CEO: Ansas Meyer

We are neither willing nor obliged to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before consumer arbitration boards.

We are a member of the initiative "FairCommerce" since 30.11.2016.
For more information, see: https://www.haendlerbund.de/de/haendlerbund/interessenvertretung/faircommerce

Contatta il venditoreVisualizza gli articoli di questo venditoreVisita la vetrina del venditore

Condizioni di vendita

Standard Business Terms and customer information

I. Standard business terms

§ 1 Basic provisions

(1) The following terms and conditions of business apply for all contracts concluded with us as the supplier (preigu GmbH & Co. KG) via the websites AbeBooks and/or ZVAB. Unless otherwise agreed, the inclusion of your own terms and conditions is explicitly rejected.

(2) A ‘consumer' in the sense of the following regulations is every natural person who concludes a legal transaction which, to an overwhelming extent, cannot be attributed to either his commercial or independent professional activities. The term ‘businessman' refers to every natural person, legal person or legally responsible partnership that concludes a legal transaction in pursuance of his/its independent professional or commercial activity.

§ 2 Conclusion of the contract

(1) The subject-matter of the contract is the selling of products .

(2) If an article is placed by us with AbeBooks or ZVAB, the activation of the page on AbeBooks or ZVAB shall involve the binding offer to conclude a contract under the terms and conditions contained in the article page.

(3) The contract shall become effective via the online shopping cart system as follows:
The products intended for purchase are moved to the "shopping cart". You can select the "Shopping Cart" using the appropriate buttons on the navigation bar and make changes there at any time.
After calling up the "Checkout" page and entering the required personal data and payment and shipping conditions, all order information is then displayed again on the order summary page.
Before submitting the order, you have the ability once more to review or change any information here (you may also use the "back" button on the Internet browser), or to cancel the purchase.
By clicking the "Buy now" button to submit the order, you declare your legally binding acceptance of the order which makes the contract effective.
(4) The execution of the order and the sending of all the details necessitated by the conclusion of the contract take place via e-mail, in a partially-automated manner. Consequently, you have to ensure that the e-mail address that you have deposited with us is the correct one, and that the receipt of the respective e-mails is guaranteed. In particular, you have to ensure that the respective e-mails are not blocked by a SPAM filter.

§ 3 Right of retention, reservation of proprietary rights

(1) You can only exercise a right of retention if the situation in question involves claims arising from the same contractual relationship.

(2) The goods remain our property until the purchase price is paid in full.

§ 4 Warranty

(1) The statutory warranty rights are applicable.

(2) As a consumer, you are requested to promptly check the product for completeness, visible defects and transport damage as soon as it is delivered, and promptly disclose your complaints to us and the shipping company in writing. Even if you do not comply with this request, it shall have no effect on your legal warranty claims.

(3) If a characteristic of the goods deviates from the objective requirements, the deviation shall only be deemed to be agreed if you were informed of the same by us before submitting the contractual declaration and the deviation was expressly and separately agreed between the contracting parties.

§ 5 Choice of law, place of fulfilment, jurisdiction

(1) German law shall apply. This choice of law only applies to customers if it does not result in the revocation of the protection guaranteed by the mandatory provisions of the law of the country in which the respective customer's usual place of residence is located (benefit-of-the-doubt principle).

(2) If you are not a consumer, but a businessman, a legal entity under public law or an institutional fund governed by public law, our place of business is the place of jurisdiction as well as the place of fulfilment for all services that follow from the business relationships that exist with us. The same condition applies to situations in which you are not associated with a general place of jurisdiction in Germany or the EU, as well as situations in which the place of residence or the usual place of residence is not known at the time of commencement of proceedings. This has no bearing on the capacity to call upon the court associated with another place of jurisdiction.

(3) The provisions of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods are explicitly inapplicable.

II. Customer information

Identity of the seller

preigu GmbH & Co. KG
Lengericher Landstr. 19
49078 Osnabrück
Germany
Telephone: 0541-580 72 84
E-Mail: mail@preigu.de

We are neither willing nor obliged to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before consumer arbitration boards.

Information regarding the conclusion of the contract

The technical steps associated with the conclusion of the contract, the contract conclusion itself and the correction options are executed in accordance to the regulations "conclusion of the contract" in our standard business terms (part I.).

Contractual language, saving the text of the contract

3.1 Contract language shall be English.

3.2 The complete text of the contract is not saved with us. Before the order is sent, the contract data can be printed out or electronically saved using the browser's print function. After the order is received by us, the order data, the legally-mandated details related to distance selling contracts and the standard business terms are re-sent to you via e-mail.

Main features of the product or service

The key features of the goods and/or services can be found in the respective quote.

Prices and payment arrangements

5.1 The prices mentioned in the respective offers represent total prices, as do the shipping costs. They include all the price components, including all the incidental taxes.

5.2 The dispatch costs that are incurred are not included in the purchase price. They can be viewed by clicking the appropriate button on our website or in the respective quote, are shown separately over the course of the order transaction and must additionally be borne by you, insofar as free delivery is not confirmed.

5.3 If delivery is made to countries outside of the European Union, we may incur unreasonable additional costs, such as duties, taxes or money transfer fees (transfer or foreign exchange fees charged by the banks), which you must bear.

5.4 You must also bear the costs arising from money transfers in cases in which the delivery is made to an EU Member State, but the payment is initiated outside of the European Union.

5.5 The payment methods that are available to you are shown by clicking the appropriate button on our website or are disclosed in the respective quote.

5.6 Unless otherwise specified for the respective payment methods, the payment claims arising from the contract that has been concluded become payable immediately.

Delivery conditions

6.1 The delivery conditions, delivery date and existing supply restrictions, if applicable, can be found by clicking the appropriate button on our website or in the respective quote.

Unless a different period is specified in the item description or our delivery conditions, the goods are delivered within 3-5 days after the conclusion of the contract (in case an advance payment has been agreed upon, after the payment authorisation).

6.2 If you are a consumer, the following is statutorily regulated: The risk of the sold item accidentally being destroyed or degraded during shipping only passes over to you when the item in question is delivered, regardless of whether or not the shipping operation is insured. This condition does not apply if you have independently commissioned a transport company that has not been specified by us or a person who has otherwise been appointed to execute the shipping operation.

Statutory warranty right

Liability for defects is governed by the "Warranty" provisions in our General Terms and Conditions of Business (Part I).

Information on battery disposal

In connection with the sale of batteries or the delivery of devices containing batteries, we are obliged to inform you of the following:

Batteries must not be disposed of with household waste.

You can either return used batteries that we carry or have carried in our range as new batteries to us at your own expense or return them free of charge to our shipping warehouse (shipping address). Alternatively, you can hand in the batteries at your local collection points.

As an end user, you are legally obliged to return used batteries so that they can be recycled or disposed of properly.

Used batteries may contain harmful substances that can damage the environment or your health if not stored or disposed of properly. However, batteries also contain important raw materials such as iron, zinc, manganese or nickel and can be recycled.

The symbols on the batteries have the following meanings:

The symbol of the crossed-out wheelie bin means that the battery must not be disposed of with household waste.

For batteries containing a certain amount of lead, cadmium or mercury, the following additions below the symbol with the crossed-out wheelie bin indicate the respective pollutants:

Pb = Battery contains more than 0.004% lead by weight
Cd = Battery contains more than 0.002% cadmium by weight
Hg = Battery contains more than 0.0005% mercury by weight

Information on the costs involved in accordance with Article 56 (4) of the EU Battery Regulation (Regulation 2023/1542) can be found at the ‘Batterie-Zurück (https://www.batterie-zurueck.de/de/bewirtschaftungvonaltbatterien/)' initiative.
Please pay attention to the above instructions.

Diritto di recesso

Instructions for revocation

Right of withdrawal for the sale of goods

Revocation right for consumers
(A ‘consumer' is any natural person who concludes a legal transaction which, to an overwhelming extent, cannot be attributed to either his commercial or independent professional activities.)

Instructions for revocation

Revocation right
You have the right to revoke this contract within 14 days without specifying any reasons.
The revocation period is 14 days with effect from the day,

on which you or a third party nominated by you, which is not the carrier, had taken possession of the products, provided you had ordered one or more products within the scope of a standard order and this/these product/products is/are delivered uniformly;
on which you or a third party nominated by you, which is not the carrier, had taken possession of the last product, provided you had ordered several products within the scope of a standard order and these products are delivered separately;
on which you or a third party nominated by you, which is not the carrier, had taken possession of the last part delivery or the last unit, provided you had ordered a product, which is delivered in several part deliveries or units;

To exercise your right of withdrawal, you must inform us (preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, Telephone number: +49 (0) 541 / 580 72 84, E-Mail address: mail@preigu.de) by means of a clear declaration (e.g. a letter sent by post, or an e-mail) of your decision to withdraw from this contract. You can use the attached model withdrawal form for this purpose, which is, however, not mandatory.

You can also exercise your right of withdrawal online by clicking on a button labelled accordingly (such as ‘Withdraw from contract' or similar) on the AbeBooks/ZVAB website. If you use this online function, you will immediately receive a confirmation of receipt on a durable medium (e.g. via email) containing information on the content of the withdrawal notice, as well as the date and time of its receipt.

In order to safeguard the revocation period, it is sufficient that you send the notification about the exercise of the revocation right before the expiry of the revocation period.

Consequences of the revocation

If you revoke this contract, we shall repay all the payments, which we received from you, including the delivery costs (with the exception of additional costs, which arise from that fact that you selected a form of delivery other than the most reasonable standard delivery offered by us), immediately and at the latest within 14 days from the day on which we received the notification about the revocation of this contract from you. We use the same means of payment, which you had originally used during the original transaction, for this repayment unless expressly agreed otherwise with you; you will not be charged any fees owing to this repayment.

We can refuse the repayment until the products are returned to us or until you have furnished evidence that you have sent the products back to us, depending on whichever is earlier.

You must return or transfer the products to us immediately and, in any case, at the latest within 14 days with effect from the day on which you inform us of the revocation of this contract. The deadline is maintained if you send the products before the expiry of the 14 day deadline.

You bear the direct costs for returning the products.

You must pay for any depreciation of the products only if this depreciation can be attributed to any handling with you that was not necessary for checking the condition, features and functionality of the products.

Criteria for exclusion or expiry

The revocation right is not available for contracts

for delivery of products, which are not prefabricated and for whose manufacturing an individual selection or stipulation by the consumer is important or which are clearly tailored to the personal requirements of the consumer;
for delivery of products, which can spoil quickly or whose use-by date would be exceeded quickly;
for delivery of alcoholic drinks, whose price was agreed at the time of concluding the contract, which however can be delivered 30 days after the conclusion of the contract at the earliest and whose current value depends on the fluctuations in the market, on which the entrepreneur has no influence;
for delivery of newspapers, periodicals or magazines with the exception of subscription contracts. The revocation right expires prematurely in case of contracts
for delivery of sealed products, which are not suitable for return for reasons of health protection or hygiene if their seal has been removed after the delivery;
for delivery of products if they have been mixed inseparably with other goods after the delivery, owing to their condition;
for delivery of sound or video recording or computer software in a sealed package if the seal has been removed after the delivery.

Specimen - revocation form

(If you wish to revoke the contract, please fill up this form and send it back to us.)

To preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, Email address: mail@preigu.de :
I/we () herewith revoke the contract concluded by me/ us () regarding the purchase of the following products ()/
the provision of the following service ()
Ordered on ()/ received on ()
Name of the consumer(s)
Address of the consumer(s)
Signature of the consumer(s) (only in case of a notification on paper)
Date

(*) Cross out the incorrect option.

Privacy e sicurezza

Data protection declaration

Unless stated otherwise below, the provision of your personal data is neither legally nor contractually obligatory, nor required for conclusion of a contract. You are not obliged to provide your data. Not providing it will have no consequences. This only applies as long as the processing procedures below do not state otherwise.
"Personal data" is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

Responsible person
Contact us at any time. The person responsible for data processing is: Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück Deutschland, +49 (0) 541 / 580 72 84, mail@preigu.de

Collection and processing when using the cancellation button
If you have entered into a contract via this platform for which a statutory right of cancellation applies, the platform provides you with a cancellation function (cancellation button) through which you can submit your notice of cancellation immediately.
When using the cancellation function, your personal data (name, email address, details identifying the contract or part of the contract you wish to withdraw from, and the time (date and time) of sending the notice of withdrawal) will only be collected to the extent that you have provided it.
The purpose of data processing is to provide you with the statutory option to withdraw from your contract and to ensure the proper processing of your withdrawal.
The platform operator collects your data on the basis of Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR, namely the legitimate interest in ensuring the general accessibility of the statutory withdrawal function on the platform. You will receive a confirmation email from the platform operator acknowledging receipt of your notice of withdrawal.
The data is then transmitted to us by the platform operator.
If the contact relates to a contract already concluded between you and us, this data processing is carried out on the basis of Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR. Otherwise, data processing is carried out on the basis of Article 6(1)(c) of the GDPR, to fulfil a legal obligation to provide an electronic withdrawal function.
We use your email address solely to process your notice of withdrawal. Your data will subsequently be deleted in accordance with statutory retention periods, provided you have not consented to further processing and use.

Collection, processing, and transfer of personal data in orders
When you submit an order we only collect and use your personal data insofar as this is necessary for the fulfilment and handling of your order as well as processing of your queries. The provision of data is necessary for conclusion of a contract. Failure to provide it will prevent the conclusion of any contract. The processing will occur on the basis of Article 6(1) b) GDPR and is required for the fulfilment of a contract with you.
Your data will be shared, for example, with shipping companies, dropshipping or fulfillment providers, payment service providers, service providers for order processing, and IT service providers. We will comply strictly with legal requirements in every case. The scope of data transmission is restricted to a minimum.

Duration of storage
After contractual processing has been completed, the data is initially stored for the duration of the warranty period, then in accordance with the retention periods prescribed by law, especially tax and commercial law, and then deleted after the period has elapsed, unless you have agreed to further processing and use.

Rights of the affected person
If the legal requirements are fulfilled, you have the following rights according to art. 15 to 20 GDPR: Right to information, correction, deletion, restriction of processing, data portability. You also have a right of objection against processing based on art. 6 (1) GDPR, and to processing for the purposes of direct marketing, according to art. 21 (1) GDPR.

Right to complain to the regulatory authority
You have the right to complain to the regulatory authority according to art. 77 GDPR if you believe that your data is not being processed legally.
You can lodge a complaint with, among others, the supervisory authority responsible for us, which you may reach at the following contact details:

Landesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz Niedersachsen Prinzenstraße 5 30159 Hannover Tel.: +49 511 1204500 Fax: +49 511 1204599 E-Mail: poststelle@lfd.niedersachsen.de

Right to object
If the data processing outlined here is based on our legitimate interests in accordance with Article 6(1)f) GDPR, you have the right for reasons arising from your particular situation to object at any time to the processing of your data with future effect.
If the objection is successful, we will no longer process the personal data, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that outweigh your interests or rights and freedoms, or the processing is intended for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims.