Jaime
port wentowrth,#2Author of original report
Wed, January 28, 2009
I would also just like to inform women not to let Kenny Schmidt into your house. He will not only try to make you buy a $2500 vacuum he will also make a fool out of himself hitting on you and offering you a better deal on the Kirby if you have sex with him.
Jaime
Port Wentowrth,#3Author of original report
Mon, January 12, 2009
I am glad you had a good experience with Kirby. There may be one or two good distributors out there but if you read more comments on here you will find so many more stories of bad distributors. They do the same bad business and teach the same immoral values so all i'm saying is they must be taught it somewhere that they are not just Independant Distributors of Kirby. They were taught this behavior and it should not be tolerated. I'm not telling anyone not to buy a Kirby. I'm telling people not to buy them from a dealer. You will be overcharged and it takes up half your day to purchase one. You can buy online for a quarter of the price. We should be able to go into a store and buy one without letting liars into our house that will tell us we are dirty and wrong for not purchasing it. You have a good point that Kirby does business just like used car sales people. We expect it from them and i'm just informing the public to expect it from a Kirby dealer also.
Brian Kimmey
Lucasville,#4Consumer Comment
Sun, January 11, 2009
I feel for your situation and it's scum like this that give the sales profession a bad name. The only thing that I wanted to comment on is your statement of never to buy from Kirby or to go to work for them because it is Kirby itself that is the bad guy. Although I do believe that Kirby should take a stand against these pigs and bring them to justice, it doesn't sound like they are the bad guys in this situation. I worked for Kirby for about a year and went to several Kirby sponsored meetings and banquets. I was paid exactly what I was promised that I would be paid and was treated very well in the time that I worked for them. They are very high pressure and not upfront with their customers as to the REAL price of their machines but not anything any different from what a used car salesman would do. I have owned 2 Kirby machines in 20 years and am now looking for a 3rd. If I needed employment I would not hesitate to go back to work for Kirby in a heartbeat. Just because you have a bad encounter in one town with one manager that doesn't make the whole company bad or mean that is the way it is everywhere. Just food for thought!!!