Tristar Vacuum Cleaner

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Tristar Vacuum Cleaner Reviews

July 4, 2007

Rip Off / Scam

Two salesman rudely ruined our 4th of July this year. Even though we didn't have plans, we were enjoying our holiday just relaxing at the house and watching movies. Well the two guys bombard us and give us a small bottle of Gain just to talk to us about environmental allergies or so they tell my husband. I was in the back room and my husband comes and gets me and tells me this guy just gave him a free bottle of Gain detergent just to talk to us about allergies, will only take 10 minutes. Welll... WHAT A LIE!!! They arrived at our home at approx 3:45 this afternoon and did not leave until well after 6:15pm.

Here is what occurred... One of the guys leave and says he has to go pick up his friend and will return in about 5 minutes. While, the other guy talks with us. Well here comes the other with a box in hand. And the next thing I know he pulls out a vacuum cleaner and goes about saying how nasty our home is. When he is finally done telling us we are killing ourselves living in filth, he says this vacuum sales for $2807.00 but he can let it go for $2468.00. I tell him no that is extremely TOO much for a vacuum cleaner. Then he says it will last over 30 years and that averages out at 0.04$ a day. Then he says I can give you an air purifier and the vacuum for $2200 even. I still say no... this guy won't take no for an answer. My husband is getting aggravated in the meantime. Then he asks to use our phone and goes out of the room and comes back and says he can let us have the demo vacuum and the air purifier for $1600.00 if we give him our old vacuum cleaner and write a testimonial letter. I say that is still too much money. I am not paying that for a vacuum cleaner. He says if we pay $8.86 down we can have monthly payments for $75/mth. Or he would be glad to hold a check on us for about two weeks. I again say NO and now my husband is getting short with him and trying to rush him up but wont budge. It takes him over 30 minutes to pack up the vacuum cleaner and before he goes out to wait by the road for his friend to come back (and he was only suppose to be gone 5 minutes, and this presentation lasts almost 3 hours!!!) he tells us he can give us two air purifiers. My hobbies and I both say NO... We can not pay that right now and probably never will for a vacuum cleaner. He then starts make noises in disgust about how "dirty" our house is. I was so relieved when he FINALLY left. DO NOT AFFLIATE YOURSELF WITH TRISTAR!!! SCAM

September 12, 2006

Total scam!

I rec'd a phone call telling me I won a $1,000 dollar shopping spree, and to receive it, I would have to listen to a sales-pitch on TriStar Vacuum cleaners. They told me I didn't have to buy anything, just listen to the presentation for 30 minutes, receive my shopping spree card and they'd be out of my hair. The salesman showed up, showed his presentation, which took about 45 minutes, and then asked if we were impressed with the demonstration. I was impressed, but I also knew that it had to be unaffordable for us. He told us the vacuum would cost $2,800 dollars, but because we let him into our home and listened to his presentation, he'd cut us a deal for 1800.00. What! A thousand dollar discount just like that? Ok, at that point, I knew it had to be a scam. I filled out his 10 question survey, and told him flat out that we couldn't afford it at this time, but maybe in the future we'd go to the internet site and check it out. He wouldn't give us a card or brochure-said he didn't have any. He didn't want to hear us when we told him we weren't interested. He started being incredibly rude by saying, "Well, if you want to continue to live in filth, then you go right ahead... this is an unhealthy environment, but if you want to live that way..." For one thing, my house gets cleaned everyday. I have had many people, including real estate agents compliment on how clean my house is. I didn't appreciate being told my home was filthy and unhealthy because I didn't want to spend $1800 on a vacuum cleaner-especially from someone who couldn't even produce a brochure or business card. He proceeded to say how filthy my home was and finally left. It took everything I had not to throw him out physically. I bit my tongue, but found the business phone on my caller ID. I got a hold of his trainer, and asked him if I could give him advise on their sales presentations. I was wanting to let him know that it isn't going to sell if you insult the costumer. He wouldn't even let me say a word. I told him who I was, and he'd heard enough. I told him I couldn't afford their vacuum cleaner, and he said, "yes, you can afford it. We pre-approved you by running your credit. You are wasting my time-if you want to live in filth, that is up to you" At that point, I went off and cussed him out, and hung up. I feel like this is a scam, and I am sooo glad we didn't buy one of these vacuum cleaners. As for the thousand dollar shopping spree, that was a complete joke. It's landed a spot in my trash can. What a waste of time for me and my family. I would recommend these people be turned in to the better business bureau, and if anyone were to ever get a chance to have a presentation at their home, they'd be smart to skip it. I will never let another salesman into my home. I will forever hang up on telemarketing calls after that experience.

Thanks.