My friend sent "his friend" over my house. He drove 100 miles from San Diego...it was a "surprise" and my wife & I wondered what was all about. A deaf guy carried a big box into my house and I saw Rainbow vacuum. I knew that he was going to try sell it to us. I told my wife in secret "you know I WON'T buy this overpriced vacuum. We're happy with our $300 Hoover WindTunnel vac" She agreed with me.
Anyway, the rainbow vac deaf salesman opened the brand new box and removed the plastic protective covers for the vac, attachments, hose, etc... and gave the demostration about how it works... explained to us about the dust...blah blah. It was like 45 minutes demo. At the end of the demo, he asked me and my wife "Are you interested in buying it?" I was curious to ask him "How much is it" (I knew it was going to be over a thousand bucks). He said $1200. I bursted in laughter and said "No thanks, it was a great demo tho". He EVEN offered us the financial plans, like monthly payments... his so-called "money back guarantee" . He said that if I buy it tonight at a special discount price and if I didn't like it, I can return it and get my money back, within 3 days of the purchase. He said it has to be in cash. I wasn't stupid... I repeatedly told him I didn't want the vac. He faced showed that he wasn't pleasured with me, he had to repack the new vac (put the plastic protective covers on EVERYthing - real carefully, then put them back in the box, real neatly). He seemed had no patience in doing this. He left with the vac. It was like 9 30 pm at night, he had to drive a long trip back home, another 100 miles to San Diego. Well...that's too bad for him.
Several months later, I heard some deaf people weren't happy with the $1200 Rainbow vac, they called the same deaf salesman, requesting their money back (via email). The deaf salesman refused to respond their emails.
I feel sorry for those deaf people who were scammed by the deaf Rainbow vac salesman.
According to Consumer Reports magazine, the $300 Hoover WindTunnel Self-Propelled vac performed better than the $1200 Rainbow vac. Hoover WindTunnel is much cheaper and does its job as I expected. I'm happy with my Hoover...so why buy $1200 vac? Rainbow vac is more hassle...it requires you to change the water, and hard to get it around the house while vacuuming (cansister type with flexible hose, etc). The Hoover WindTunnel Self-Propelled vac is a upright vac. It's a great vac.
The deaf Rainbow vac salesman told me that he just moved to San Diego from New York City. I just learned that when I first met him, he gave me his name which was a false name. I eventually found out his real name several months later. No wonder he is trying to "steal" money from selling overpriced Rainbow vac. If you really want to buy a Rainbow vac, you can get one on eBay for a lot cheaper, I think it's like in $500-$600 range. The $1200 vac is crazy.
So, when you are buying any products, do the research first. Be a smart consumer. That's excatly what I did.
-madmax
Anyway, the rainbow vac deaf salesman opened the brand new box and removed the plastic protective covers for the vac, attachments, hose, etc... and gave the demostration about how it works... explained to us about the dust...blah blah. It was like 45 minutes demo. At the end of the demo, he asked me and my wife "Are you interested in buying it?" I was curious to ask him "How much is it" (I knew it was going to be over a thousand bucks). He said $1200. I bursted in laughter and said "No thanks, it was a great demo tho". He EVEN offered us the financial plans, like monthly payments... his so-called "money back guarantee" . He said that if I buy it tonight at a special discount price and if I didn't like it, I can return it and get my money back, within 3 days of the purchase. He said it has to be in cash. I wasn't stupid... I repeatedly told him I didn't want the vac. He faced showed that he wasn't pleasured with me, he had to repack the new vac (put the plastic protective covers on EVERYthing - real carefully, then put them back in the box, real neatly). He seemed had no patience in doing this. He left with the vac. It was like 9 30 pm at night, he had to drive a long trip back home, another 100 miles to San Diego. Well...that's too bad for him.
Several months later, I heard some deaf people weren't happy with the $1200 Rainbow vac, they called the same deaf salesman, requesting their money back (via email). The deaf salesman refused to respond their emails.
I feel sorry for those deaf people who were scammed by the deaf Rainbow vac salesman.
According to Consumer Reports magazine, the $300 Hoover WindTunnel Self-Propelled vac performed better than the $1200 Rainbow vac. Hoover WindTunnel is much cheaper and does its job as I expected. I'm happy with my Hoover...so why buy $1200 vac? Rainbow vac is more hassle...it requires you to change the water, and hard to get it around the house while vacuuming (cansister type with flexible hose, etc). The Hoover WindTunnel Self-Propelled vac is a upright vac. It's a great vac.
The deaf Rainbow vac salesman told me that he just moved to San Diego from New York City. I just learned that when I first met him, he gave me his name which was a false name. I eventually found out his real name several months later. No wonder he is trying to "steal" money from selling overpriced Rainbow vac. If you really want to buy a Rainbow vac, you can get one on eBay for a lot cheaper, I think it's like in $500-$600 range. The $1200 vac is crazy.
So, when you are buying any products, do the research first. Be a smart consumer. That's excatly what I did.
-madmax
I had a Rainbow Vacuum Cleaner back in the early 80's, it looked like a little space ship. It had costed me $300., I had it for around 10 years. It was a hassle to fill the bottom bowl with water, and then going room to room to vaccum, but, boy did that thing pick up the dirt. It did a good job, then I had to put the Rainbow to "little space ship" heaven.
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