One thing I forgot to put at the top of my peeves list: duct cleaners that give you a coupon for $77, but want to charge $450 to do your whole house. Why does it work for people to run businesses like this? Why would I want 1/6 of my ducts cleaned? Why would I want to pay the price of airfare to someplace warm and sunny, just to have someone blow air through my vents?Two questions:
(1) Have you found a duct cleaning company that you like and trust? Please share.
(2) What's the most annoying scam you've encountered?
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Time Shares that say they will give you free things but forget to tell about the harrassment you will get first!
Yes! And then when you go, you have to bring your own toilet paper...
Most annoying scam...I have two.
1) Kirby Vacuums. Emily was a baby. She'd just pooped on the carpet(easy to get out breastmilk poopy, mind you.) Kirby guy shows up to do his demo & free carpet shampooing. Perfect timing. The thing couldn't even get out the breastmilk poopy. The poopy I could dab up with a rag and a little soapy water. But Mr. Kirby wanted me to pay over $1000 for his gem of a vacuum. No thank you. Mr. Kirby tried to convince me by admitting that the carpet shampooing demo is just a ploy to get people to look at their product. (No, really?) He said their vacuums actually do work much better than this. Um, not convinced.
2) Listening to a demo of someone selling "Educational Products," and in exchange you get a bunch of nice freebies--including like 50 free rolls of Kodak film. (Before Digital cameras were hot.) Well, demonstrator shows up, does a long presentation of things we MUST HAVE or our children will be educationally maimed for life. But it's an all or nothing deal. Again over $1000 bucks for a slew of stuff to take up space, and a set of encyclopedias that will be outdated next year. The woman demonstrating was literally infuriated with me, wanting to know why we let her come--didn't we know what we were agreeing to? She begrudgingly held out all the coupons for the freebies & said with a huff, "Well-enjoy your free stuff." The worst part of it was, we couldn't use a SINGLE one of the coupons, and in order to use the free film, you had to pay astronomically high "develop by mail" charges. What a waste.
I now boycott all home demos. There's a always a catch and it's a big one.
Oh, KJ--I'm a'chucklin on the inside remembering those "encounters"! And you must not know that E and V are Kirby-lovers. Not so good on baby poopy, darn good on puppy hairy.
My most annoyed at scam? Hmmmm...that's a tough one (not!)... can you say "washable smoke detectors? :) Oh well, I'm less stupid now.
noothername...what is a washable smoke detector?? Please tell!
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