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The Kirby Company is an American company. The company was founded in 1917. In 1920 the company became a direct selling organization. The founder of the company is a famous inventor Jim Kirby. The company specializes in developing, manufacturing and distributing of a home care system based on vacuum cleaner design. The very last model of it is called Sentria system. In addition, the company offers a wide range of related accessories. Kirby vacuum cleaner is the leader in the industry. Recently Tech Drive Variable Power Assist was added to the Kirby home care system.

With the help of The Kirby Company even has patented a special bag system. Please try to contact Kirby Customer Service directly prior to posting any complaints on this site.

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Edubeaut...
Contact me if you want about your experience w/ "Kirby" AKA RTS.

For now I will keep my identity disclosed. I (unknowingly) took a job for those low lifes and got *%#@ and w/o any vasoline!!!! I'm Italian and most of you know the tempa of a...

#285727
Jan 02, 2012
225

Anonymous
Kirby Vacuum Lies and More Lies

The experience I am about to share occurred several years ago. I was only reminded of it when Kirby (Extreme Technologies of Knoxville, TN) came to my door recently to offer a free...

#285628
Jan 01, 2012
229

Bingonut...
Kirby - They broke the law were i had the cops looking for them

I get a call saying i won a free cleaning of my carpert .could they come in to clean it i said yes she said how about at 3pm i said sure .at 2pm i get this knocking at my door it...

#284205
Dec 27, 2011
256

Anonymous
Kirby Vacuums

First let me say that the people that come to your house are very misleading. They told me they would show me how the machine worked and clean one carpet. I told them I didn'...

#280073
Dec 08, 2011
302

Dbb
Kirby

Well here is to the complainers about the Kirby vacuum........Yes I am sure it is hard work....but if you don't work hard , how do you achieve things in life.....go buy a lotto...

#278979
Dec 03, 2011
244

Ndangelo
Kirby - Total lie about what they were there to do

I can't beleive the company like Kirby who has been around for so long hires total scammers. We were told it was a new carpet cleaning company in the area and would come to cle...

#273337
Nov 07, 2011
449

Anonymous
Kirby Lied To My Daughter About Customer Service

My daughter went for a position for customer service with Kirby and was all excited that she got the position. What she didn't know is that it wasn't for customer service,...

#266315
Oct 05, 2011
795

MythOne
Must read if you work for Kirby!!!

If you work or are thinking about working for Kirby I Beg you to take a moment of your time and read this!!!I had the worst employment experience of my life, and Ive had some...

#261370
Sep 12, 2011
1091

Carlaf
Kirby vacuum ate a hole in my floor.

I bought a Kirby vacuum and I feel like an *** for falling for this ripoff. This "great" suction machine wouldn't even pickup strings off the floor. I thought I was doing s...

#258994
Aug 31, 2011
620

Anonymous
Kirby - Rude salesman

Kirby salesman came to my house today August 26 and they were rude,rude, rude. They first sent in a very pregnant lady to say they wanted to clean my carpet for free. What a scam...

#258037
Aug 26, 2011
578

Anonymous
Kirby - BAD BUSINESS, RUDE EMPLOYEES, RUDE OWNER

Very bad customer service. I was set up to receive a free 2 room carpet cleaning. Had my 2 rooms cleaned out and after the employees were over 20 minutes late without a phone call ...

#257125
Aug 22, 2011
528

Anonymous
Kirby - Not happy about changing my hectic schedule around for nonscence

I had Kirby set an appointment 3 times in 1 week i had to change my work schedule around the first excuse was the driver was in a car accident 10 minutes before showing up. i calle...

#254174
Aug 08, 2011
493

Mollycue
Kirby - Misrepresent overpriced product

I bought a Kirby 15 years ago because it had a lifetime guarantee. Well, they are good machines, but considering about every 3 or 4 years I have to spend at least a couple hundred...

#253578
Aug 05, 2011
549

Fireflyd...
Working for Kirby = Unpaid Intensive Labor

I had a very similar experience as Former Dirtsucker Salesman. Desperate for a job, I answered the ad on Craigslist. The ad itself was ridiculously vague, said nothing about Kirby ...

#252459
Jul 31, 2011
956

JRC
Kirby - Unprofessional Sales Practices

Two Kirby sales people banged on my door on a Saturday evening around 7:00 PM last weekend. One of the two young ladies gave me a card and told me they were with a new carpet clea...

#252058
Jul 29, 2011
568

Anonymous
RTS Kirby distributors Greenville sc, defrauds employees and customers

The stories of fraud about kirby reps are true. I worked there for three weeks and was told i was employed to do demonstrations that are set by company and not sales and would be p...

#252049
Jul 29, 2011
670

Just1cindy
Kirby Vac has dishonest employment tactics

My daughter was desparate for work and even after reading the Kirby warnings decided to try it. I mean, she wasn't working and maybe she would be good at sales. If nothing els...

#250130
Jul 20, 2011
504

ExposeKi...
Kirby Vacuums. D.C. Distributors

The Kirby company sells their vacuums to distributor a company that hires people and scams them out of their wages to sell the vacuums and make the most money for the owner and the...

#247888
Jul 09, 2011
724

Ex kirby...
Kirby - The company trains you to manipulate

SO DESPERATE, FOR A JOB DUE TO FINANCIAL SITUATION. I WAS HAPPY TO FIND THIS ON CRIAGSLIST. LOCAL ESTABLISHED COMPANYLooking for 8-10 highly motivated and d...

#246808
Jul 03, 2011
910

Amcmine
Kirby, Hawkeye QCK,Davenport is a total scam !

What a crock! three girls came to my door and told me they were doing a promo for a new "CARPET CLEANING BUSINESS" in the area and they would shampoo any room of my house as adver...

#242164
Jun 08, 2011
1433

Madfu**l...
Kirby - SCAM!!!!!

This company is a complete scam. they know you wont stay past the month (if youre smart atleast) so they count on the free advertisement.. they tell you 2000 dollars a month if you...

#238977
May 22, 2011
1115

Anonymous
Kirby sales scam

My husband and I were ambushed by a pushy Kirby salesperson last evening. After 13 hr of work, I'm tired and cranky, the person was dropped of by a green van and unknowing my t...

#238091
May 17, 2011
1351

Laurenme...
Kirby is a rip off

I was told by a Kirby salesman that I could use the kirby vacuum I bought from him on my tile (stone) floor. I did this and it scratched the *** out of the floor. It looks absolu...

#235612
May 03, 2011
788

Anonymous
Kirby is an Unloyal company and rips you off

Kirby Kirby Kirby... Where to begin..... Hmmmmmmm... Let's start with the fact that they try to persuade people to work for them with false advertisement. They write how peachy...

#229494
Mar 29, 2011
961

Anonymous
Kirby - The business has been very good to me. The most honest work ive ever done.

My name is Jeremiah Franklin, I'm 19 yrs old, Im from Norfolk, NE. I entered the world of KIRBY the summer of 2008. I had no idea what a Kirby vacuum was, let alone how to work...

#227429
Mar 18, 2011
1416

NinjaSusie
Kirby scam

At one time Kirby had exceptional customer service. But 8 yrs ago we had 2 salesmen come to the house. We agreed to turn in our older kirby as down payment. One of the salesmen ...

#225318
Mar 06, 2011
1043

Aregiona...
(Kirby) tried to put me down in front of my girlfriend

I had a Kirby employee from b.l.f. distributing inc. vm jeffrey cabrera come to my house and promise to clean the carpets in my house if i just aloud him to do a prensentation for ...

#218455
Jan 27, 2011
1634

Anonymous
Kirby bullshit

This company *** they just want people to fall in the trap!!when u have training they tell u your going to make money no matter what and that your not going to go door to door but ...

#217025
Jan 18, 2011
962

Roxane
Kirby - Con jobs

I own a kirby, wich is a good vacuum, but the company itself sucksto work for. my eldest daughter is a single mom trying to support herself and her child, she worked for this...

#211975
Dec 17, 2010
1075

Freakinp...
Free carpet cleaning = 3 hour headache. Thanks Kirby.

I am ashamed to admit I fell for this scam. I had a feeling that that is what it was..but I let it happen. May this serve as a warning to the rest. This woman rings my doorbell and...

#208942
Nov 27, 2010
1545
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