On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 15:12:27 GMT, "ben" wrote:


If you can get your hands on a Kirby...buy it. :-)

Only GBP1,500 for an old fashioned quite unreliable heavy vacuum
cleaner with indifferent performance. Only someone who is seriously
demented or vulnerable to their dire sales technique would do this.

I do enjoy Kirby salesdroids though, I've had several and had them
vacuum my car and several rooms. They tended to target my elderly
neighbours so I usually invited the neighbours over for tea and went
to their house to deal with the Kirbys myself. There is nothing more
satisfying than having a plastic suited junior Kirby Dellboy
salestoad and his "area manageress" sweating as you tell them they
have missed a bit on the carpet for the fourth time and you are
really interested in what they have to sell.

My record is keeping a pair of them for 6 hours and having half a
house cleaned by the junior salesdroid whilst the "manager" made ever
more desperate offers to do complex deals.

They go through their whole sorry scare story about bugs about to eat
you and then you can say you are really impressed - and will buy one
from the USA for $500 the next day.

Well you might, but it isn't even worth $50 never mind $500.

Unfortunately the whole close and adjoining streets no longer seem to
get their attention, it seems to have become a kirbyfree zone. Most
disappointing.





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Peter Parry.
http://www.wpp.ltd.uk/