Kirby Vacuum Scam
Did you get a job offer and are now wondering about its legitimacy? Most likely, you saw a flyer or a posting on a job site advertising that there are a bunch of positions open. Let’s cut to the chase. You searched for Kirby Vacuum scam or selling vacuums scam for a reason. Something is telling you that this “job” offer isn’t legit. So let’s take a look at what you need to know about this job position.
First off, your job will be to sell Kirby Vacuum cleaners. These vacuums, although are good in quality, sell for nearly $2,000. Your job as a sales rep is to go door to door and convince people to buy these vacuums from you. Will you make money? Sure, if you can sell. The process goes a little something like this: Once you get the offer, you will go through some training. Once that happens, you will be put on a team where you will be driven in a company van to different neighborhoods and dropped off for hours while you and your team go door-to-door. There are different methods of how this works. One is where you have the knocker. This person basically tries to convince home owners to accept a free carpet cleaning. Once this happens, the cleaners come in and demonstrate the products to the potential customer. When that is done, the closer comes in and tries the close the sale. Some reps will go door to door and do all 3 steps on their own.
Now the reason why many websites will use terms like Kirby Vacuum scam, Kirby sales scam, or Kirby Vacuum cleaner scam is because many people have felt they were lied to when they were offered the job. They were promised a lot of money but many found out that the pay is ridiculously low. This isn’t always the case though. This is a sales job after all. The more products you sell, the more money you make. Now another complaint you will find is from customers. Many have experienced very high pressure sales tactics used on them. In some cases, the home owner had to threaten to call the police in order to get the sales person to leave.
So is Kirby Vacuum a scam? No. The company has been around for nearly 100 years. The products may be a bit expensive but they’re not complete junk and actually work quite well. It’s the job position that gets people to call this company a scam. Most people won’t go to a retail store and buy a $2,000 vacuum but if they get a free carpet clean and are pressured into buying, they very well might buy. Not all sales people who work for this company are like this though.
The bottom line is this. If you want to make some money, then unless you are good at sales, you probably have a better chance working at a fast food restaurant. Search for Kirby Vacuum scam and you will find a ton of horror stories.
You searched for the Kirby Vacuum scam and were introduced to internet marketing. Maybe it’s fate. Seriously, internet marketing can change your life like it did for mine.
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don juan | March 7th, 2011 at 4:59 am #
Hello and GOOD day
My name is “Don”
I just started as a kirby sales guy a week and a half ago. So far I have made NOTHING. Today I start on my by myself.
You seem to know somthing about this….and I am currently doing this……WE SHOULD TALK!!!!!
So if you reply to this and I can get your email, then REALLY we should chat….I got an INSIDE EYE…… just a thought….
But anyways, I’m kind of interested in the writitng thing YOU got going on……so….hey. send me a message
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Kai S. | March 7th, 2011 at 9:12 pm #
I actually knew several people who worked for Kirby which is how I know a few things about the work that is involved. In any case, I’m interested to see what your dollar per hour amount will come out to once you actually get paid.
As for what I do, everything I know, I learned from the internet business course that I plaster all over this site
It really has changed my financial life and that’s why I have no problem promoting it.
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JENNIFER BANKS | April 26th, 2011 at 11:53 am #
Hi Everybody!
My name is Jennifer Banks.
I would like to share my experience with Kirby Vacuum.
I first heard about the job on Craigslist, the job was very vague, and said something about receptionist, so I thought I would check it out.
They scheduled me for an interview, and they explained the different job openings they had.
They told me how much I could make as a receptionist, and then they showed me how much I could make cleaning carpets.
I CHOSE the cleaning carpets myself, because I wanted to make more money to get out of debt.
I went to orientation Wednesday, listened to the distributer talk about the company,and I was impressed.
He told us we don’t have to worry about trying to sell them all because we are new, we just have to show the people the vacuum, and he will close the sales for us, he told us he is a very good salesmen, and he will close all of the sales, he just needs us to do a good job showing the customers the vacuum
Well I was in orientation Wednesday through Friday. (Not paid, and he told us we wouldn’t be getting paid) I was okay with that. I really wanted to learn how to make all this money, so I stuck with it.
Saturday I got to take the vacuum home, and practice doing demonstrations at my families house, and friends house. They all fell in love with the vacuum, so I got to sell a few,and got some cool bonuses
Like a free gift certificate, and cash! Plus whatever I made on the 2 vacuums. lol.
Then Monday came around, our first day of real work.
It was definitely different, it isnt your average job. Me the owner, and 3 other people all got into the van, and we drove 45 minutes to a small town, and the owner got us all into our own houses, on the spot. When I got there, I was kind of nervous, but tried not to show it. I cleaned the carpet for the old couple, and explained to them, the different tools, and showed them all the dirt.
I was trying to be friendly, and nice, then after 2 hours the owner came, and talked to the customers, and they bought it! I sold my first vacuum, and I was so proud of myself, the negotiated the price a little bit, because they were seniors, but yeah! I was very proud of myself.
This is how we got paid, if you sell 3 Kirby’s a week, you get $300.00 guaranteed. Plus you get money from each Kirby you sold!
So if I only sold 2 Kirby’s for $1,500.00 and the other for $1,115.00 then my paycheck would of been $300.00
Because I got Half of over $1000.00 So anything over $1000.00 would be split in half with my boss.
Well, I kept working, and putting in a lot of hours, I was very dedicated, and made good money. The only problem I had with the job was that I didnt have enough time to see my boyfriend, so I had to quit. We were working sometimes until 10 o clock at night, and I had no social life.
If I was single, I would definitely still be there, because I made very easy money. All I had to do was be nice to people, show them how good the vacuum worked, show them the dirt, and they wanted it!
I don’t know why people on here are complaining. I am sure there are a lot of businesses out there that are not running it the way they are supposed to, but that doesn’t mean that EVERY Kirby business is bad. It doesn’t mean that every person that sells Kirby products is a bad person.
I don’t have any criminal backround, but I do see a lot of people that have had simple misdemeanors that are hired, and there isnt anything wrong with that.
Kirby has a law, where they CANNOT hire anyone that has a felony. You can call them and ask.
They will NOT hire a felon, they do backround checks. Maybe in the past someone did hire a felon, but now if they do that, they will get their business shut down.
There was a point in time where I made over $1000.00 a week.
This isnt a regular job. You have a chance to run your OWN company with this job, you have the opportunity to make A LOT of money. It just depends how MOTIVATED you are, and how much TIME you have to invest in this.
If you sell a Kirby you WILL make profits of each one.
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Kai S. | April 26th, 2011 at 2:47 pm #
Thanks for the added info. Of course there will always be people who make money with these type of jobs, sales that is. Sales is the highest paying profession. You can literally go from broke to well off if you’re great at sales.
You can always use this sales experience to get into something more lucrative that doesn’t involve going door to door and pays more.
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JOE | May 6th, 2011 at 1:28 am #
WELL IM GOIN TO START WORKING FOR KURBY AND WILL SEE FROM THERE… ILL LET ALL U PEOPLE KNOW HOW IT WENT. 2MORRO WILL BE MY SECOND DAY OF TRANNING
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Milan Potica | May 23rd, 2011 at 2:58 pm #
Kirby is surely a sleazy company. They put an ad on Craigslist disguised as a beer distribution job. They give a phone number to call in the ad. I typed the number in Google, and sure enough, it was a Kirby scam.
http://cleveland.craigslist.org/bus/2397182628.html
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Kai S. | May 23rd, 2011 at 10:43 pm #
I guess that’s why that post was flagged and removed.
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Johnny | June 18th, 2011 at 1:33 pm #
I’ve worked for kirby for 5 years and it ws great experience. I had my up and downs and I made really good money. I moved on now and I became the Vp for sale in the company I’m in now. I can tell you this the experience I had with kirby really helped. I hit 15+ a month sales my best month as a dealer was 85 and as a manager was 200. It was great. I just got tierd of door to door and I got offered a better oppurtunity. So for those who really want to learn the hardcore real life hustle Kirby is the place to do it.
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Kai S. | June 18th, 2011 at 4:55 pm #
Thanks for sharing your experience Johnny. From the people I’ve talked to, Kirby seems to be a great boot camp, meaning if you can survive and make money with Kirby, you can make money in any sales job.
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Nick | August 24th, 2011 at 8:07 pm #
Well, I start working for Kirby next wed. And it seems to be a good job. As long as we do 10 showings per week…pre scheduled through a calling center…we get a base pay of $305.00 per week. For each Kirby we sell we get an additional $200. Also every morning we get some type of incentive like a gas card or pre paid visa gift card. This position is in Decatur, Illinois let me know if anyone has worked here before!
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Kai S. Reply:
August 24th, 2011 at 9:23 pm
Good luck with that.
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Rhaina | September 14th, 2011 at 3:48 pm #
I was pulled out of training for their sales team to man the phones and schedule interviews for new recruits. They promised me minimum wage for the day when I did this I started hearing things that threw up red flags from other employees, like being abandoned in cities 50 miles from the office, so I made sure I’d still be paid before leaving. Today (2 weeks later) I call in and am informed that since I didn’t complete the training and it occurred during the unpaid training period they felt no need to pay me.
While answering the phone for new recruits you’re not allowed to tell them any details that isn’t in the phone script and can only tell them it’s door to door or vacuum sales if they ask directly.
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Kai S. | September 15th, 2011 at 9:21 am #
Being dropped off in some city miles away is a common experience. I guess they do that so you have no choice but to work. Thanks for sharing your experience.
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Scott tuck | January 4th, 2012 at 4:03 am #
Kirby is a joke.
I worked there for 2 months.
Only got paid 400 for the total of the 2 months.
I sold 10 Kirby’s.
6 were at full pop deal and guess what?
I didn’t get a dime.
When asked why the hell not.
The fucking told me that I didn’t even sell any.
Wtf?
These people are dumb fat and stupid.
Hint hint : Austen : that works at the G.P.D promotions hint hint:
Kirby sales place or W/E
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Kai S. Reply:
January 4th, 2012 at 7:51 am
How much are you supposed to get for selling 10 Kirby’s? There’s got to be more to this story. If you sold the products, how could they deny that you did? You can just have them call those customers and ask them themselves couldn’t you?
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