I got a call from Nikki at Best carpet cleaners ( We are currently changing our name and our web site is down), offering to clean 1 room free. Well if it seems to good to be true.... After reconsidering I did some resesaech and found this site. Irrated I persintently called 858-565-1406 until the call timed out, then redialed. After 30 mins. John answered and when I canceled he brazzenly asked when I wanted to re-sch.
John was nonplossed when I told him my research uncovered this was a scam and had the audacity to say they have been doing this for 90 years. Well I had him put me on their DO NOT CALL LIST.
I've been getting a few calls a day from this number, they never leave a message, after reading the posts regarding this number I'm glad I never answered the calls
They just called me. Caller ID said Best Company. I thought was Best Buy because I had contacted them earlier. When I answered they hung up on me. The area code is in San Diego County. I don't even live in San Diego County.
I was just looking up this number because it's a contact for a job posting on Craig's List for a canvasser. Once I read Best Company and carpet cleaning I knew who it was. First off, I cannot speak for all Kirby distributors. I am only talking about one in particular I had first-hand experience with. It's a Kirby distributor run by Frank Vahle ("Valley") and I unfortunately got sucked in to performing many of those calls you complain about.
When I made calls for them many people staunchly stated that they had been on the do not call list for months longer than the waiting period it takes to remove the number from the system. Basically, they tell you that you are getting a free room of carpet cleaning, which you do technically get. But it's all just a foot in the door to sell you a Kirby vacuum cleaner. Granted, it's a good piece of machinery, but it's something that is ridiculously hard to sell in this economy at it's average 2,500 price tag.
Most of the jobs ads talk about a carpet cleaning job with a guaranteed monthly pay of 1250 or something like that. They usually specify being professionally dressed, which I had to reiterate when answering the Craig's List calls. They're located in Kearny Mesa off of Convoy Court. He'll sell you at the orientation about how if you just do two demos a day for thirty days you will get that pay even if you don't sell. But when it comes down to contract time he gets you to sign the "better" contract that gives you a higher commission, but no guarantee. Vahle is either a snake oil salesman or pathetically delusional. He strings people along with promises of big bucks if they just work hard enough so he can make the profit of the few Kirby's that do sell while the people who do the work get a commission that's not worth the time put in and they eventually leave, while a new batch of poor saps keep coming in the door. My personal favorite part of his load of crap is that he lets you take a Kirby home to "practice demos on friends and family" and most of the sales that do come in are from the unsuspecting friends and family members.