GolfHos

So my lovely bride tells me last week that her friend's sister is starting out selling some sort of vacuum/air purifier dealie (Hyla, I think?) and needs people to help practice her sales pitch, and is coming to our house today. Now I've heard this from her before and every time she's agreed to this the "practice" becomes a hard sell. I tell her, "we have a brand new Dyson vacuum and I'm not convinced air purifiers are actually effective at anything other than making your wallet lighter. DO NOT agree to buy anything..." [At this point, I'm sure you see where this is going.]

She calls me about an hour ago:
Her: "I saw the air purifier demo today."
Me: And...?
Her: "I bought it."
Me: [Rolls eyes] "Why?"
Her: "It was really impressive"
Me: "Oh yeah? What does it do?"
Her: "Well, it purifies the air, and it, um, is a wet/dry vac, and... oh! it makes the house smell good..."
Me: [Eyes still rolling] "How much?"
Her: "$2000"
Me: [Almost falls out of chair] "Two thousand *goshdarn* dollars? It better do a hell of a lot more than mimic a small appliance we already own, and make the air smell good for $2000!"
Her: "Well, I have a 3 day return window, but I thought you might just want to see it first..."
Me: "Can they be back to pick it up before I get home from work?"
Her: "You don't even want to see it?"
Me: "Absolutely, positively not. Unless, of course, you want me to run over to Best Buy after work and buy $2000 worth of HD Home Theater equipment. Then maybe we can talk."
Her: "I'll call her right now..."

Jebus.  [sm_banghead]

see, you should have just gone to the store and bought an HDTV and HD-DVD player.  [sm_devil]

Why is it this sort of story is never about a stripper pole installed in the master bedroom?

friends sister + bedroom + stripper pole...

i'd like to subscribe to your newsletter.

It's not yet entirely out of the question.  [sm_devil]

Oddly enough, friend's sister is a former stripper.  :holysheep:

 [sm_happy1]

A stripper who can suck bad smells out of your house...

And spacey says no.  [sm_anon]

 [sm_devil] price match, price match... (http://www.sears.com/sr/javasr/product.do?BV_UseBVCookie=Yes&vertical=ELEC&cat=Televisions&subcat=Projection+TVs&pid=05754057000)

 :shoothead:

 [sm_eekdance]

[heh, this thread had taken an odd turn while I was trying to come up with a reply]


$2,000!  [sm_shock]

I've never heard of Hyla before, but a quick search turned up this thread, which has some interesting comments from owners as well as a sales rep.

http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/oldhouse/msg051813026798.html


And here's a funny meta-scam where you can spend $12.50 to download an eBook to avoid getting ripped off buying door-to-door vacuum cleaners. ;D

eBook 2004 Hyla Vacuum Cleaner -- What Vacuum Salesmen Don't want you to know!
http://music.lulu.com/content/79577

ROFL. I'd send the link to her, but she'd end up buying it.

 ;D

What on earth?  Who has to sign a contract when they buy a vacuum? 

You do when it's a $2000 dollar vacuum.

Wow. Two thousand bux. And she said yes. I need to tell my wife how much I love her tonight.

To her credit, it was gone when I got home and she kissed me and thanked me for not coming totally unglued over the whole thing. So I've got that going for me, which is nice.

 [sm_buddies]

so now you just need to go spend $2k  on a tv.  ;D  one which has a 15% restocking fee  [sm_devil]    [sm_shock] [sm_shock] [sm_shock] :-X :D

Make-up ****!

:raisehand: [sm_devil] [sm_shock] [sm_redface] [sm_naughty] :shhh:

It does. I bought one last month. I've left that house only once since then, and that was to get some ointment.

It's a bargain at twice the price.

Most people, fly in their ointment.

JD, ointment in his fly.

Yer *fiddlesticks*ed.