If anyone has bought I hope it works for you they appear to work while changing out the filter every 30 seconds. here is how my afternoon went on 11/3/06
A young lady knocked on my door yesterday afternoon and offered a free carpet cleaning for word of mouth advertisement for their new company, (presenting me with this flyer click link).
http://images19.fotki.com/v358/free/...jpg?1162682089
I have a sinus infection and explained that I wasn't interested and that my house was a mess, She stated thats OK we will clean it, it will only take 45 min. I'm thinking to myself ok my wife will be home at 6:00pm and it was 2:30 at the time, So whatever clean the house. She replies ok let me get my guy in the van. About 2 min later 2 guys walk in carrying Kirby boxes and I'm like whats going on (to my self. They both introduce themselves one is the salesman and the other is his manager. His manager spends about 5 min admiring my possessions acting like he was my child hood pal then leaves saying he will be back in 35min. Well time goes on and he continues cleaning the living room only, (I dint think there was a piece of furniture he didn't hit in the process). About half way through he demo he went outside to have a smoke, then returns and keeps vacuuming, and dusting then moves to the tile in the kitchen,
About 4:30 He finally gets a hold of his manager (using my phone of course), and he keeps relaying messages to me via his manager I.E. monthly payments, I can take possession now whats there to think about. I keep saying I want to do some research on the product and he shows me a book then I pull out the old I need to discuss buying practices with my wife. his boss asks for the address (cant even remember where I live) and says he will be there in 5 min.
He shows up at this time its 5:00pm and is trying for the life of him to con me into this vacuum not realizing that I am wasting their time with the lamest excuses I can think of. He asked me at least 25 times if he could welcome me to the Kirby family and every time I kept saying that I had to check with my wife to discuss the option to buy the vacuum He looked at my T.V. and asked if I discussed that with her I said no and that I bought her a new fridge that she wanted when I got the T.V.. He asked If I could call her at work and discuss it with her. I said she never gets her messages till later in the evening. Tried to con some more asking if the price was $10 if I would still discuss it with her and I said yes (he had to know I was B.S.ing him at this point) so he asked again if he could welcome me to the Kirby family and you guessed it I said I had to discuss it with the wife, (and if he noticed I didn't have my wedding band on but that might have raised a flag) and he asked
again if I could call her at work, I gave him the same story, she never gets her messages. then he asks what time will she be home I said 9pm he asked if they could come back (who wants to be bothered at 9pm) I said no she wouldn't be interested. He asked if I wanted the vacuum, I said oh yea that thing rocks. then he asks if I will sign the contract and they will come back in 3 days to show her how to use it, (knowing that he just wanted me to sign the contract so he could make a sale sticking me with a $2000 vacuum that I know a not so smart friend of mine bought one for $1000) I said I need to talk to My wife. Once again he asks me to contact my wife, then if they can come back at 9. I state that he should give me his contact info so I can call and set up a time with him when my wife will be home, (his exact words were \"I have been called a butt-head, a jerk, and many more much worse names, but I have never been called back\"). I assure him that I was going to call him
back Then the manager asks to borrow my phone to!
call his boss, he gets all excited on the phone of how much I want this vacuum like he is talking to someone, (I can check the last 10 numbers dialed from my home phone the number the manager dialed was to the same cell phone number the sales man called to talk to the manager I.E. the manager called his own cell, very shady. I called the number and it went straight to his voice mail) then he offers me to take the vacuum and let her use it until Monday and he will come back I stated that I still need to talk to her. Finally about 6:00 He writes down the price stating he can only give a price on the first day of contact, (meanwhile the salesman is just tossing the Kirby stuff back in the box like he is throwing a fit that I wasted his time). At this time it is 6:15pm and im am worried that my wife will be strolling in. They finally get boxed up and I get them out of the house, I looked out the window and they are just standing outside on my driveway. I called my wife to ask where she
was and she stated she was on the way to her friends house and asked why so I told her the story. So it is a day later I am thinking of calling him back to waste some more of his time I like how the 45min carpet cleaning turned into an almost 4hr. Kirby demo. I did ask about the financing, he tells me that it is simple interest not letting me know the interest rate but telling me it is $10 per $1000 and he stated it as a loan. he showed me the application for a creditcard the numbers he wrote down were
2049.00-vacuum
-179.00 free shampoo
=1870.00
-100.00 trade-in on vacuum I said I couldn't find.
=1770.00 with 0 down for $62.00 a month for 36 months and no payments till Feb 07
so with an interest charge of 10 per 1000 I would pay 17.70 in finance charges but at the end of my loan as he put it I would have paid 2232 (without the compound interest that I will get from the creditcard) So even before Interest where does the other $444.30 that was unaccounted for go? these guys are very deceptive and try to work a good con but but Iv seen street hustlers with better game. I will admit that the vacuum did work good (while replacing the filter every 30 seconds which he left for me to pick up) I will never buy a Kirby because of their sales tactic's, but I might invite him back to give my wife a demo to waste some more of his time or set up an appointment when no one will be home cause it is an hour drive for him one way!
so to make a long story short the vacuum did a wonderful job I didn't buy nor will I ever buy one based on these deceptive sales practices I think it is cowardly and not a smart way of doing business. if there are any Kirby sales reps on the form I'm sorry and wish you the best but I hate you all
if you read this long post thanks and Please share any Kirby related stories
Aron
then let them know that I forgot about an appointment so apologies leave then invite them back and do it again except this time have a buddy dressed as a plumber over fixing the toilet 
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