Comments | ghost2: Kirby vacuum sales--you've GOT to be kidding me

ghost2

Kirby vacuum sales--you've GOT to be kidding me

Jul 20, 2014 14:01

I haven't posted in almost two months. :( But here's a rant.

If someone comes to your door offering to give you a free carpet cleaning or show you a demonstration of a product with (they claim) no obligation to buy, BEWARE. I was at a friend's house the other day, and she let the guy in. More than two hours later, she was $2500 poorer.

( This was ridiculous. )

rl, wtf, rant

Comments 7

faelariel July 20 2014, 18:51:57 UTC

That's scary and awful tbh. I can't believe she's keeping the vacuum, excellent cleaner or no.

ghost2 July 21 2014, 01:16:03 UTC

Linda is the most gullible person I know. She's also lost over $20,000 to scam artists in the last year or so--I've posted about this before in locked entries and will again soon.

faelariel July 21 2014, 12:54:26 UTC

Ack! That's terrible!! :O Why doesn't she listen to your advice?

singeaddams July 20 2014, 23:50:07 UTC

Ugh. Well, in the end, it was her decision. Not a wise decision but hey...

ghost2 July 21 2014, 01:17:49 UTC

Yeah, so glad it wasn't me. I gave her my opinion, she didn't really listen, so be it.

eve11 July 21 2014, 00:40:20 UTC

Ugh that sounds very similar to my experience getting accosted by one of those magazine salesmen at the mall. Competing for points! Winning trips! Bullshit. It's like, one step up from prostitution and pimping. They basically cornered me and guilted me into buying a subscription or perhaps two; about an hour after I'd gotten back (and done some research on these groups), I realized, I was definitely voiding the sale. I read all of the fine print, sent my cancellation notice in within the required time (it was like, 2 business days), sent it via certified mail, and then had to call the "business" like 3 times and threaten to report them to the BBB if they didn't honor their deal and send me my money back. Eventually they did. Never again with those manipulative scam artists. Never again. And mine was only like $85 or so. Well it was more like $94 but there was some $9 fee I couldn't get back from them. Ugh. $2500. I can't imagine putting down that much money on one of those scams.

ghost2 July 21 2014, 01:23:34 UTC

I can see getting guilted into doing that. It happened to me at a shopping center when I was really broke. A woman asked if I could help her, and somehow I let her do a demonstration of hand lotion. Then I bought some that I could ill afford and felt really dumb when I got home. No chance of a refund. Oh, well. At least I didn't spend anywhere near $2500. I will buy candy bars and magazine subscriptions from kids still, but adults going door to door? No way.