I was scammed! I feel so violated! Here's the story! Yesterday, Zeph and I were outside playing baseball and a salesman comes up to me and hands me a flyer. I read over it quickly as he continued with his sales pitch. The flyer said that for today only he was offering a free, no obligation, one room only carpet cleaning. He said that they would clean my largest room free and if we liked them maybe in the future we would use them again. i thought to myself that this was a pretty good deal considering that Ross and I wanted to get our carpets clean anyway. We had actually been looking for a company and wow i found one. The guy didn't really give me a chance to say yes or no, he just took down my address and said that he would be back in a few minutes after he finished asking the rest of my neighbors and told me that several of my neighbors were getting it done too! About a half hour later the doorbell rings and two guys are there. Frank, the original salesman introduces Ross and I to Gary the carpet cleaner. I asked them if we needed to move anything and they said no. that is when i started wondering what was going on. Gary, started to get out all this vacuum equipment and set up for a Kirby Demonstration. What?!!!! This is not what we signed up for! We were not happy! We both had other obligations that afternoon and Ross needed to finish working. The man took over 3 hours to show us the vacuum. He finally got to the punch line and asked if we would buy one. No way can we afford 2000 on a vacuum no matter how good it is! He then tries to get us to consider it if we agree to prolong our payments. We say no! Then he calls his boss, Frank. Frank comes and he spends over a half hour guilting us to buy one. Even told Ross he should be a better husband and buy one for me cause i deserve a clean home. We were trying so hard to be Christlike when all we wanted to do was kick them out on there cans! We were so upset at this point. Finally Frank leaves and Gary agrees to vacuum and shampoo our carpet. We moved one coffee table and that was it. We all had to stay in the kitchen while he worked. He came at 1pm and left at 5pm. A whole day wasted and made to feel guilty by some pathetic salesman. Do not let this happen to you! Beware of anyone promising to do something for free. My vacuum may be horrible but at least I have my pride and decency which those deceitful salesman from Kirby do not have! Do not be scammed!
5 comments:
Seems like free isnt really free. Did he at least do a decent job on your carpet?
At least in this case, free was not free. Yes, the carpet looked good afterwards, but it is starting to flatten back down again. Thanks for your comments!
I'm sorry to hear of your scam! it seems like a lot of things that are advertised as "free" always seem to have a definite downside. but at least you didn't waste a ton of money on a vacuum cleaner!
Hey Lisa, Sorry for the ordeal you went through with the salesmen. Roger and I sat through a pitch on a Rainbow vacuum cleaner because one of Roger's friends said they bought one and asked if we could do them a favor and listen to the salesman b/c if we did they would get a free room deodorizer as well. When he got to how much the vacuum cost we just laughed and said our cars weren't even worth that much so there was no way we could spend that much on a vacuum cleaner.
Love the story! Remember Brent Palmer (the guy I dated at MBBC-big guy with red hair)? He was a Kirby salesman-he told me never to buy a Kirby because they were terrible-not worth the money!
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