Door to door sales. Sleazy?

[collector2]

To be quite honest, getting rid of door to door salesmen has been very detrimental to both the industry and the consumer. Yes there always were some very shady salesmen. But there were also some very good ones. By having the salesman show the vacuum in the customers home the customer was educated on how to properly use it and how certain aspects of the machine would work best in the situation that they had. Now they rely on you tube etc., which half the time is done by people that don't actually know much about what they are talking about, and rarely has any real relation to the situations you will find in your own home.

 

[real1shep]

My only experience with Kirby since a teenager when my folks found a Dual Sanitronic 50 at a garage sale in very nice shape was this;
We had just bought our house in 1995. A phone call from a young gal named Comfort, if you believe that. She asked me if we had carpeting and would like a cleaner home and a visit and demonstration. I politely said no thank you.

What that boy told me, who had once worked for me, about his immediate boss and the Kirby way of doing business was no less than shocking. He was literally a piece of meat trying to sell their vacuums with an elaborate contingency plan if you say 'no'.

Kevin