Kirby Vacuum Cleaners?

[portseven]

Just had a demo of a Kirby Vacuum, impressive machine, cleans carpets, cars, etc. But it's £1800 + VAT!!!

Anyone ever had one? The claim is that it will outlast any other Vacuum, but for £1800, thats a bit of a claim.

Or I could just tell them to ****off

[mudskipper]

Just had a demo of a Kirby Vacuum, impressive machine, cleans carpets, cars, etc. But it's £1800 + VAT!!!

Anyone ever had one? The claim is that it will outlast any other Vacuum, but for £1800, thats a bit of a claim.

Or I could just tell them to ****off

We had one of them demo'd about 20 years ago. Newly married and quite skint at the time, but salesman urged us to consider whether we could afford it - we did consider, decided we could, so used the £2K to buy a PC... Still sounds like they've come down in price since then!

[voodooflux]

We had one of them demo'd about 20 years ago.

Same here. We got the salesman to vacuum the entire house while we thought about it, then told him it was too expensive.

[MrMark]

Mmmm, buy a normal machine to clean the carpet cost £120; buy a Kirby cleaner, cost £1800.

Tough call, but I think I'll pass on this one. If my carpets need an extra special cleaning I can always hire a cleaner for £20

[mudskipper]

Same here. We got the salesman to vacuum the entire house while we thought about it, then told him it was too expensive.

Yep - ours got in under false pretences IIRC. We'd won our carpets being cleaned in a raffle (they had indeed been giving out free raffle tickets a couple of weeks before) then salesman turned up and did hard sell for about 4 hours.
Think we did a lot of winding up, such as "Does the carpet shampoo contain insecticide - we've got a problem with fleas?"
Was a good cleaner though - but £500 good not two grand good.

[gingerjedi]

My mum had a Kirby about 30 years ago but she did have a 42 bedroom hotel at the time, I'm not sure where it came from but I do remember it looked like something out of a Terry Gilliam film.

We bought a Dyson 10 years ago for £120 and it still sucks like new, now if only the wi... I won't go there.

[RichardCranium]

We bought a Dyson 10 years ago for £120 and it still sucks like new, now if only the wi... I won't go there.

Waddya mean? You mean you want to be free of the dirty bag too?

[gingerjedi]

Waddya mean? You mean you want to be free of the dirty bag too?

Yeah the old bag is a pain in the arse, I always find they get bloated and split at the bottom if you don't change them regularly.

[RichardCranium]

Yeah the old bag is a pain in the arse, I always find they get bloated and split at the bottom if you don't change them regularly.

Hmm. I think you might be doing something wrong with the hose.

[Platypus]

Or I could just tell them to ****off

I think that's the appropriate response.

I can't believe they're still using those old sales techniques, i.e. "you won a raffle" etc.