I went to training to sell Rainbows so that I could “earn” one rather than spend the money. I do think they are pretty awesome but not worth the price. And it definitely wasn’t worth the hard sell they wanted me to give people.
The last straw was on my initial sales pitch to a friend who said she would sit through it for my sake. The person who got me involved came along to “help” me and got stupid and pushy when Cheryl wouldn’t buy. When I told her my friend’s son spoke Spanish, she turned around and said to the son (then age 12) in Spanish, “Poor child, your mother doesn’t love you enough to want you to breathe clean air.” Oh, um, lady - my friend speaks Spanish too. It was all she could to be semi-civil and get us out of her house. When I called later to apologize, she told me what the woman had said. I went through the roof and refused to have anything to do with the local Rainbow crowd.
I have a Dyson DC-17 Animal now. I really like it. I do clean the air filter regularly.
Rule of thumb: Any product which advertises itself as using “Mother Nature’s (anything)” is a fraud or otherwise not looking past the part about “Mother Nature”.
In this case, it is water that belongs to “Mother Nature”.
Have the salesrep put in new filters (or otherwise establish perfectly clean). Then turn it on and let it sit in the middle of the room and run for an hour.
Now: “Show me all that crud it extracted from my air”. NO? Well, where DID it go, then?
I have a 30 year old Eureka - I’ve replaced the brushes in the roller, the roller belt. It now throws the belt in the head which turns the roller - the wheels have worn and become rounded. Rather than replacing the roller, I came up with a kludge.
I am a slob and don’t vacuum often, but it still does what I want it to do.
$2400? I’m guessing the rep gets half. But if they are going for $450 used, they are probably not worth more than $900 new. Even that is absurd.
It’s 17 years old this month now, and still going good. I cannot even imagine paying $2400 for a frickin’ vacuum cleaner. For that much money, I could probably pay an army of Thai cleaning ladies to come in and scrub the place down with a toothbrush regularly for five years.
Some people use vacuum cleaners on hardwood/linoleum/tile/etc floors. I fail to understand that. How can you get anything other than carpet clean with a vacuum cleaner, and why would you bother when a good dust mop does a better job? It baffles me.
