My friend recently bought a Kirby Century and loves it. Any tuggers have good or bad experiences? If it truly has a limetime warranty and is as good as a few have told me, it sounds like a pretty good deal at $1200 which is what he paid, as we seem to spend $250 every 3 years.
Regards
Joe
We have not owned a Kirby in many many years but last one was way to heavy and not worth near the price back then and it wasn't $1200. What you paid seems way out of line because we own two different units, one for upstairs and second for down stairs and together only cost us about $450.00. If they only lasted three years {Two different brands}we could replace and still not spend $1200 and they both work great and have for few years now.
The problem I see in our area is that Kirby drops off the biggest low-lifes in a area and they spend the day knocking on doors offering these Kirby units for $1200. They show up many times during Super Bowl or World Series which really ticks me off. They lie about the product and say anything to get in your home to show you how well it works.
Couple years ago a girl came to our door and offered a free cleaning of our home and wife asked why and what was she selling. She stated she was selling nothing but this was a presentation by Kirby so you might buy one of their units later. My wife fell for this and next thing you know she tells me to come upstairs and handle this. The girl takes off and we get this really fat black guy looking like he hasn't been near a bath tub in months sitting on the floor trying to put together this new unit.:annoyed:
I walked up and ask him why he needed to put the unit together so he could show how well the unit worked when he would already have a unit to show us. His response was I need to have the new one so when you buy it it is new!
I told him to get his stuff back in the box and get out of the house. I told him I don't like the bait and switch from the young girl to him and when asked what they were selling was told nothing. He responded with this unit starts at $1200 and goes up to $1600 and the point of cleaning our house was for us to buy a unit from him and my wife must have misunderstood the girl. I told him I was standing there and heard the girl lie to my wife. He had the nerve to then tell me how great this price was and that three of my neighbors had already bought one. I asked him for their name and address and I will walk with you over to their house and ask them with you. I was then called couple cus words as he left.
Later we found him and the girl and couple others sitting on the sidewalk waiting for the pickup truck to pick them up. Kirby have returned on many Sundays knocking at the door with same game plan. I know my neighbors have called the police several times on them and it has now been about five months of not being bothered by Kirby door to door sales people. There was several write-ups in our local paper about them and police reports of running them out of town.:deadhorse:
This kind of treatment at my door and sleeze balls they hire and $1200 doesn't lean me toward ever buying a Kirby product!
PHILL12
