The Kirby salesman that came to my house and sold my mother a Kirby Ultimate G (they must have called it that because of the price) for $2,000, he sat in the living room to do the demo and him and my mother got drunk together and he was there about 6 hours.
He left and we had a shiny overpriced cleaner (still have it today).
Later met him again when he had a new job selling butcher-cut steaks and beef for a meat packing company door-to-door. Mother again bought from him there too. I guess he later got fired from that job because he had boxes of meat missing he gave away for free that he couldn't account for.
Last heard of him doing karaoke in a dive bar on week nights. He was a nice guy, but he picked a crappy line of work.
I also heard from someone that did door to door Kirby sales last year that Kirby only pays you IF you sell a vacuum. They do not pay you anything until you sell a vacuum. You're basically working for free, with your own car and gas money and on your own time, and they only pay you a certain percentage of your sales commission every 2 weeks.
If you get kicked out of a demo and don't make a sale, you don't get any money. This is why Kirby salesmen get so pushy and aggressive when told "no", and the crazy ones will do drastic things like trying to kick your door down or threaten you or something like that. Also there have been scammers too that show up with empty Kirby boxes they find in the trash to pose as salesmen to get in your house and once they do, they rob you.
Kirby is a great company and their vacuums are great, but they need to lose that door to door sales business. It's about 20 years behind the times and people buy on Amazon or in a shop these days, not off someone's doorstep.
That door to door sales is going to end up running the company's name into the ground with bad PR and people will just switch to Dyson.