What are the "acceptable" actions for the salesman and the person who answers the door?
Last Wednesday before Turkey Day I was home and getting the house ready for company the next day. I hear a booming knock of the front door. I answer and a perky semi-attractive woman starts talking. Once I realized what her purpose was I said "I only buy cheap ($49-75) sweepers and she says "what rooms do you want us to clean for free?" I told her the walkway in the dining room and the family room would be great....but I will not buy. She ignores me and asks to see the rooms. I let her in, she looks at it for 10 seconds and then calls in the kid (salesman) who is going to sweep and shampoo. The kid carries in the "machine" He's yapping a 1,000 miles an hour and just spewing crap talk everywhere. He demonstrates everything (it was awesome...but I don't give a shit about sweepers or the 86 things the Kirby could do. He sweeps and sweeps and sweeps, then has me sweep. Then he hands me a price....lulz $2189. I told him he couldn't get anywhere near where I'd even consider....didn't want a sweeper. He gives me a paper with blank lines for total price and monthly payment as he goes to shampoo the carpet.....after nearly THREE hours of insulting my intelligence and cleaning my carpet to new he kept going down to $899 (after several pretend phone calls to his boss)
All in all.....I didn't buy and everyone involved knew it but 2 of them didn't care. He was rude and bitchy when he finally came to terms with my no.
My carpet is very clean!
Was I wrong in allowing them to clean and shampoo?
Ironman92
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Wed, Nov 30, 2011 9:32 PM
Nov 30, 2011 9:32 PM
Nov 30, 2011 9:32pm
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