Dear Kirby Rep, I Heart You. OK, Maybe Not.
Posted by Lori | Posted in Frickin Blog | Posted on 12-08-2010
Tags: kirby vacuum cleaners, vacuum cleaner reps, vacuum cleaner salesman
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Dear Mr. Kirby,
I love your vacuum. Thank you for the 210 minute presentation in June. It was exactly how I wanted to spend my Saturday.
Question- In that amount of time, your rep could have cleaned my entire house. Why stop at one room?
Today, the same girl who poured flour on my carpet, offered me a vacuum cleaner massage, and gave me an entirely new opinion of the phrase, “vacuum cleaner salesman” came by my house… again.
She stated, “You look so familiar.”
I said, “I should. You spent 3 and 1/2 hours trying to sell me a vacuum in June.”
She started telling me how all of my neighbors are going to let her clean a room. It really helps her out because Kirby pays her twenty-five dollars… (At this point, I had tuned her out, and was thinking about what to make for dinner.)
In case you want to send her by again, I thought I would write you a little note. For the record, I do not care about the following:
- Her free trip to Vegas, even though she has always wanted to go and could never afford it.
- How I can get a special deal today only- she just needs to get approval from her manager. “WAIT! OMG! I have him on the phone! He is going to offer you the BEST DEAL EVER! I can’t believe he is doing this! Thank you, thank you, thank you, Mr. Manager! You don’t know how much this MEANS to me!”
- If she sells one more, she will bonus.
- She gets paid $25 whether she makes the sell, or not, and really needs money for school.
- “It is SO HOT out here today! I would enjoy coming in and cooling off!”
- “It is only one room. I won’t be NEARLY as talkative this time!”
- About your special financing. There is nothing special about a bazillion percent interest.
Please tell your Kirby rep that we have a magical system called the internet- where Kirby vacuum cleaners are going for $500 on EBay.
Love,
FrickinMom
(Your Biggest Fan, Ever)
P.S. Thanks for cleaning up the throw-up from my car seat.
Awesome! Sounds like our experience with Kay Designers…four hours later he was still in our front room and it was still a gazillion dollars out of our price range!
I especially like the comment, “I won’t be NEARLY as talkative this time.” That is also my promise for our river trip next week.
ha ha. haven’t been to your blog in awhile. he he. Made me laugh…as always =-) guess we’re lucky to be living in a basement where sales people don’t even know we exist. woot!
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The kirby vacum man came by and he said he would return and fix a 7 cent screw that holds the transmission to work, He disabeared and never came back to fix the problem. Who are these liars, who do not what the say. The next time I am getting a business card and going to call them repeatly until I get the vacuum fixed. This is the second time this has happened. Shame on me for not asking for a business card right.