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A Pet Peeve of Mine....GRRRR!
jonart
Published on March 12, 2013
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I got a phone call last Thursday from a gentleman who said that he represented the XYZ Carpet Cleaning Company that wanted to make inroads into our community. To accomplish this they would clean the carpet in the room of my choice or a couch or chair for FREE. All I would have to do is to recommend their services to friends and neighbors. This sounded fair so they set up an appointment for 10:30 am this morning.
After making the appointment I googled their company name and came up with some scary results. It seems that the XYZ Carpet Company is really the XYZ Vacuum Cleaner Company and they use a tag team sales routine with a high pressure closure sales person to seal the deal. (Not unlike the familiar Timeshare sales pitch). They do sell a lot of their $1600 vacuum cleaners using these techniques. I read several of the google results horror stories and said to myself: "Self, do you want to go through this"? The answer was "NO" and I called to cancel the appointment. No one answered, but I left a cancelation message.
This morning I half expected them to show up anyway, but fortunately they didn't. Ironically, when I was 19 years old (53 years ago) I worked for the very same company (the name starts with a K), and I only lasted two weeks because of their sales tactics and when I quit I recall hearing a lot of 4 letter words and threats on the other end of the phone line. My pet peeve is people that lie to promote their business and unfortunately we see more and more of it online and in ads on TV etc., etc., etc. My carpet will just have to wait.....:)
After making the appointment I googled their company name and came up with some scary results. It seems that the XYZ Carpet Company is really the XYZ Vacuum Cleaner Company and they use a tag team sales routine with a high pressure closure sales person to seal the deal. (Not unlike the familiar Timeshare sales pitch). They do sell a lot of their $1600 vacuum cleaners using these techniques. I read several of the google results horror stories and said to myself: "Self, do you want to go through this"? The answer was "NO" and I called to cancel the appointment. No one answered, but I left a cancelation message.
This morning I half expected them to show up anyway, but fortunately they didn't. Ironically, when I was 19 years old (53 years ago) I worked for the very same company (the name starts with a K), and I only lasted two weeks because of their sales tactics and when I quit I recall hearing a lot of 4 letter words and threats on the other end of the phone line. My pet peeve is people that lie to promote their business and unfortunately we see more and more of it online and in ads on TV etc., etc., etc. My carpet will just have to wait.....:)
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