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07-14-2010, 07:37 PM
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Your Invisible Rabbit Friend
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Kirby
To buy or not to buy....
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07-14-2010, 08:49 PM
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kirby is basically a scam
if you are gonna buy, get a used one off ebay for a tenth the cost of new. Read what cockeyed has to say about the kirby scam. Seriously. http://www.cockeyed.com/citizen/kirby/kirby.html http://www.cockeyed.com/citizen/kirb...ues_2007.shtml http://www.cockeyed.com/citizen/kirb...cruiting.shtml http://www.cockeyed.com/citizen/kirb...chniques.shtml |
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07-14-2010, 10:16 PM
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The future is unwritten
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Why not leave it up to Flint to pick what kind he wants to use.
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07-15-2010, 01:54 PM
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From glatt's link:
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07-15-2010, 02:07 PM
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Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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What about Dyson? My mom likes hers.
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07-15-2010, 03:06 PM
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Your Invisible Rabbit Friend
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I vaccumes, mopped and swept 3 times last week and was shocked at what the Kirby pulled out... seriously... I'm not a frivilous spender... I'm pretty much a tightwad to be truthful, but I couldn't believe what I saw... it was amazing... the crap it pulled out of the pillows and mattress was insane...
Our neighbor has a dyson, I've seen her floors... not impressed... and it won't shampoo my rug or scrub and polish my tile like the kirby can. The price is crazy, but I'm willing to consider it to have clean verses tidy. Have any of you owned a Kirby before? |
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07-15-2010, 03:12 PM
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Dyson is only three times as expensive as it should be, not ten times as expensive, like Kirby is. (In my opinion.)
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07-15-2010, 03:20 PM
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Glutton for Gluttony
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Location: Tampa, FL
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Can't speak for the Kirby but I am super pleased with the Dyson I got a few months back. Maybe your neighbor just sucks at vacuuming?
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07-15-2010, 03:27 PM
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07-15-2010, 03:40 PM
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barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy.
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I had a client who was a Kirby dealer and another who sold the rainbow (a competitor of Kirby). They were both challenged personally (pretty much like failed used car dealers). They also skipped out on their bills. I had another client who sold other vacs as well and he said they were nothing special.
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07-15-2010, 04:21 PM
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Big McLargeHuge
Join Date: Jun 2010
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i knew someone who sold kirbys briefly. he was honest at it, a decent salesperson, and actually made a tolerable amount of money at it for a little while and got perks from the company. said the vacuums really seemed good too, but yeah, super expensive and you can get something that is only slightly lesser for about a bajillion dollars cheaper.
i like my $140 vacuum, myself. it's kinda heavy but it does a really good job (particularly with cat hair) and has all sorts of weird dangly bits and doohickeys that i don't know what to do with. |
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07-15-2010, 04:49 PM
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Person who doesn't update the user title
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Years of monthly payments, but with a bright shiny vacuum with more attachments than you could ever want. It shaped my personality because I hated the thing... One attachment for waxing and polishing the car (which I had to wash it every Sat) One attachment for spray painting the picket fence in around the front yard One attachment for sharpening knives that made a hideous sound Individual attachments for vacuuming walls, ceilings, venetian blinds and the monsterous thing, itself, for vacuuming rugs. I still cringe at the sound of a vacuum and that thing lasted forever. I think my folks finally donated it to Goodwill when they downsized around 1965. So you pays your money and takes your chances ! |
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07-15-2010, 06:45 PM
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Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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So, that thing could suck the chrome off a tailpipe?
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