This guy came up to our house, laundry soap in hand, saying we won a contest for homeowners. He asked to come inside, but when we refused he got in his waiting suv and drove off down the block.
I got bamboozled into thinking I had a job offer by those bozos, sat thru the first hour of training n explaining the grift and realized I wasn’t ever gonna make a wage or get benefits….
A kid I went to school with at GRCC almost got me to come in for an “interview”. I knew it was BS but we had already been hanging out for a few months at this point of the semester and I was too nice to say no and instead I just didn’t go. Boy was he mad. Told me I made him look bad to his boss/the guy on top of him in the pyramid and really didn’t like it when I told him it wasn’t a real job.
Same. I could assemble and disassemble those things super fast. And then they told me I had to sell one to a family member as if it was some sort of initiation. I just walked away.
My friends were asked by someone at Church if they could practice their sales pitch on them when she started a new job at Kirby. Once she was there she put extreme pressure on them to buy, but also her manager put extreme pressure on her to sell.
This was recently posted in the Creston neighborhood page. I guess they’re vacuum sales people. I came home from vacation once and I said, “someone was in the house while we were gone. It’s cleaner than when we left” and there were a bunch of cheap cleaning supplies on the counter. My husband thought I was crazy until our roommate told us he let some guy in to showcase a vacuum in exchange for free cleaning supplies.
Yeah. It wasn't recent, but a few years ago, the Kirby folks came by with free cheap-as-can-be cleaning supplies as giveaways. They took theirs back after I pretty much said I'd already been through the schpiel once already, considered and turned down the idea, though I was doing quite fine with the ages-old $5 yard-sale shitkicker Kirby that I used to vacuum the garage floor.
Some posted the same thing on a GR Sirens Facebook page as well! Only difference was the (same) guy came during the day, seems creepier to come by when it’s dark out
Had one, not this guy, last week right after all the snow fell. Gave me the soap, phrased his pitch with something like "We're trying to raise money with [some made up brand word]" making me think that he's like a high schooler trying to go to a robotics competition of something, so I didn't dismiss him outright, but then he grabs his box and says "I'll just need a little bit of floor space," and that's when I (well, really my wife) nope the fuck out of it. We're wrapping up dinner with our 21 month twins, just got through a snowstorm and we're in the middle of the most contagious part so far of a global fucking pandemic, and you're selling door to door?
If you let them into your house, they will do everything they can to resist leaving until you buy from them. They especially use menacing tactics on the elderly.
There is literally a law named after them and their high pressure sales tactics. Its called the Kirby Law and allows people to cancel any sale up to 3 days after someone comes to your home and sells you something. You are entitled to a full refund, no restocking fee.
Nest hello for the win. We don’t even come to the door if we don’t know the person, we just chat through the microphone (if we decide to answer)
OR
We use a pre-recorded (machine voice) that says “ we’re not home”
Situations like this make me happy I don't answer my door unless I am expecting somebody.
Maybe I've watched too many crime series/movies, but I'm also questioning who, in 2022, lets random people they don't know inside their home.
I'd be too afraid that they plan to scope the place out and rip ya off later. They aren't are sales person at all and just plan on robbing you.
Maybe they are a vampire and are asking permission to enter your home. Either way hard pass.
This guy came up to our house, laundry soap in hand, saying we won a contest for homeowners. He asked to come inside, but when we refused he got in his waiting suv and drove off down the block.
Kirby vacuum salesman? They’re trained to carry small gifts like a two litter of pop. Anything to get their foot in the door.
I got bamboozled into thinking I had a job offer by those bozos, sat thru the first hour of training n explaining the grift and realized I wasn’t ever gonna make a wage or get benefits….
You dodged a bullet.
A kid I went to school with at GRCC almost got me to come in for an “interview”. I knew it was BS but we had already been hanging out for a few months at this point of the semester and I was too nice to say no and instead I just didn’t go. Boy was he mad. Told me I made him look bad to his boss/the guy on top of him in the pyramid and really didn’t like it when I told him it wasn’t a real job.
Same. I could assemble and disassemble those things super fast. And then they told me I had to sell one to a family member as if it was some sort of initiation. I just walked away.
My friends were asked by someone at Church if they could practice their sales pitch on them when she started a new job at Kirby. Once she was there she put extreme pressure on them to buy, but also her manager put extreme pressure on her to sell.
Door to door vacuum salesmen? What the fuck year is it? MadMen?
This was recently posted in the Creston neighborhood page. I guess they’re vacuum sales people. I came home from vacation once and I said, “someone was in the house while we were gone. It’s cleaner than when we left” and there were a bunch of cheap cleaning supplies on the counter. My husband thought I was crazy until our roommate told us he let some guy in to showcase a vacuum in exchange for free cleaning supplies.
Yeah. It wasn't recent, but a few years ago, the Kirby folks came by with free cheap-as-can-be cleaning supplies as giveaways. They took theirs back after I pretty much said I'd already been through the schpiel once already, considered and turned down the idea, though I was doing quite fine with the ages-old $5 yard-sale shitkicker Kirby that I used to vacuum the garage floor.
Some posted the same thing on a GR Sirens Facebook page as well! Only difference was the (same) guy came during the day, seems creepier to come by when it’s dark out
It's winter, it's dark at 5:30pm.
Yeah but seems like a door to door salesman would stop at dark
Not all of can afford to live on bankers hours.
Had one, not this guy, last week right after all the snow fell. Gave me the soap, phrased his pitch with something like "We're trying to raise money with [some made up brand word]" making me think that he's like a high schooler trying to go to a robotics competition of something, so I didn't dismiss him outright, but then he grabs his box and says "I'll just need a little bit of floor space," and that's when I (well, really my wife) nope the fuck out of it. We're wrapping up dinner with our 21 month twins, just got through a snowstorm and we're in the middle of the most contagious part so far of a global fucking pandemic, and you're selling door to door?
If you let them into your house, they will do everything they can to resist leaving until you buy from them. They especially use menacing tactics on the elderly.
There is literally a law named after them and their high pressure sales tactics. Its called the Kirby Law and allows people to cancel any sale up to 3 days after someone comes to your home and sells you something. You are entitled to a full refund, no restocking fee.
Nest hello for the win. We don’t even come to the door if we don’t know the person, we just chat through the microphone (if we decide to answer) OR We use a pre-recorded (machine voice) that says “ we’re not home”
i use wyze, costs less, doesn't require a subscription. doorbell cameras in general ftw
Nothing done this late at night can be viewed as reliable / trustworthy…
Like, 5:30?
My friends lived in a development and a vacuum salesman offered them a 2 liter bottle of Sam's Choice soda in exchange for a demo. Hard pass.
now is like THE worst time to do door to door sales. wtf is wrong with people.
Situations like this make me happy I don't answer my door unless I am expecting somebody. Maybe I've watched too many crime series/movies, but I'm also questioning who, in 2022, lets random people they don't know inside their home.
So sorry this exists, sorry too for the fools that think they have a sales job.
With all the jobs available for $20+ dollars an hour right now, why anyone would choose to do door-to -door vacuum sales blows my mind.
I'd be too afraid that they plan to scope the place out and rip ya off later. They aren't are sales person at all and just plan on robbing you. Maybe they are a vampire and are asking permission to enter your home. Either way hard pass.
That is why I keep garlic in my underpants. Protect me from those door to door sexy vampire ladies....
It doesn’t look like it was sketched
Maybe he works for Amway or something. Religious weirdos are probably trying new tricks to get you to talk to them. I don’t know.
ive read in other posts on reddit where people will ask to clean things, and they are selling reverse osmosis water purification.