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I refuse to pay $2500 for a vacuum cleaner, no matter how good it is. The Kirby salesman stayed for 3 1/2 hours even though my girlfriend was sick.

I arrived home from work during the first hour of the sales pitch. We spent the remaining time telling them there was no way we could pay that amount. He and his manager tried to pit my girlfriend and I against each other saying things like, "She wanted to buy it before you got home."

The salesman was not prepared, he had to borrow a pen to make a deal, a towel to clean the vacuum cleaner, helped himself to the bathroom, and finished off our milk.

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May 22, 2010
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Kirby "In-Home" sales team
by: Anonymous

I do not own a Kirby, but my encounter with the Kirby "In-Home" sales team needs to be shared. At about 3:00 in the afternoon, a cute young lady rang our doorbell and proceeded to give me a free bottle of Dawn dishwashing liquid in exchange for allowing her co-worker to come in and do a vacuum product demonstration.

She was very lax and let me know that "we didn't have to buy anything", it was just something they had to do for their job. (After this, we never saw her again.) Two gentlemen came into our home (one supposedly a trainee, and the other a team leader). After the presentation began, the team leader left.

I'll skip to the end: Ultimately, the trainee was at our house for FOUR HOURS. I specifically remember that around this time my auto insurance policy was coming up for renewal and I was shopping online for a lower rate. He asked me more than once to stop what I was doing and come participate in the demonstration.

Long after he did every demo he could, he attempted to contact his team leader (who also had the vehicle) and was never able to reach him by phone. He finally showed up at our house (the team leader) and proceeded to be the most unprofessional and pushy sales closer I've ever seen.

He 'offered' us a payment plan that was obviously going to be about three times the cost of the vacuum and when we quickly refused, he called his 'supervisor' and stood in front of us and griped about us not budging.

At about 7pm, they finally left. Bottom line: I could not make this stuff up.

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