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What was Mr Gessler’s complaint against ‘big farms’?

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What was Mr Gessler’s complaint against ‘big farms’?

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Mr Gessler complained that the big firms didn’t value the money of the customers. They were capturing the markets from advertisements and not from the quality of their work. He was mostly out of work because of those firms and day by day the volume was getting reduced.

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