So is it a scam or not.
Door to door floor cleaning scam.
It could be said that the door to door commissioned sales tactics of kirby leads to high pressure salespeople which give the company a bad name.
They said they needed credit for cleaning 3 more people s carpets in order to go to a trip to mt hood.
The harsh truth is.
You contact a company have them come and do an estimate agree to a time and a uniformed employee comes to your door.
If you re in search of a professional company to clean your carpet or any other type of flooring in your home you need to be on the lookout for scammers.
And their polite manners make it hard to for them to slam the door in front of door to door fraudsters.
At around 8pm in the evening we got a knock on the door.
The main targets of door to door sales scams like door to door cleaning products scams are people aged 50 and above.
Rather than call it the kirby vacuum scam poor sales tactics by inexperienced sales persons and false income earning promises to recruits might be a more appropriate description.
But they bought a vortech force vacuum.
A young woman and man handed me a flyer saying they were cleaning carpets in the area for free.
Even if these guys had of been legit they never would have made it inside my front door.
Avoid door to door sales scams.
En espaƱol joe and irene pellouso of madera calif live solely on their social security benefits of 2 200 a month.
The man was selling a cleaning product and the couple decided to purchase some of it.
Oklahoma city an oklahoma couple says they were taken advantage of by a door to door salesman.
It all starts innocently enough.
Scammers are more common than most of us would hope.
I ve run floor cleaning equipment before and it does not take more than one or two people to operate it.
Don t answer that doorbell.
The last thing they can afford or even want is a 4 400 vacuum cleaner.
Even seemingly reputable companies try this trick occasionally though sometimes they don t do it on purpose.
Of all the carpet cleaning scams this one requires homeowners to be the most diligent.
As these retirement age folks are more likely to be at home to answer the door during the daytime.
They all reported the same group of door to door salesmen coming to their neghborhoods and going door to door to sell bottles of a 40 cleaning solution.
Besides the carpet shampooer that could clean my carpet hasn t been made yet.
Door to door free carpet cleaning in beaverton.