Last week we had a solicitor come to our door wanting to know if we'd be interested in Penguin windows. (I really need to get a 'No Solicitor' sign because I have the hardest time saying NO!) Luckily, David came home right when the guy was there so I told David to talk to the guy. He is GREAT at saying no. :) I love him for it! Anyway, the solicitor said that we would get a free $25 gas voucher for allowing the sales person to come and talk to us about it. Ok, sure. After all, who couldn't use some free gas? So we set up a time for the following week, the guy comes over, measures our windows, shows us his demos, yadda yadda... Now it comes to the money. (This is kind of a run down version of how things went)
Sales guy: "How much would you be willing to pay for something like this?"
Us: "We have no idea. We've never priced windows, we weren't really thinking about replacing the windows, . . . $8,000??"
Sales guy: "Ok, well, let's see what we can do." **calculating, calculating, and more calculating** "I can get you these windows for $23,000 making your monthly payments about $340. Think that's something you could do?"
Us: "WHAT? NO!!"
Sales guy: "Ok, let me make a phone call to my manager" **calls** "Ok, I got you this discount and that discount and now it comes down to $19,000 which makes your payment about $189(or something like that)/mo. How does that work for you guys?"
Us: (keep in mind that we were going to say no from the very beginning) "Well, that's more affordable, can we sleep on it and let you know tomorrow?"
Sales guy: "No, you have to do it tonight. If you don't, you don't get the 7% discount."
David: "So you're telling me that a) you want us to finance at 10% or higher which would make us living way outside our means, and b) you want us to make this decision right here on the spot without thinking about, and if we don't we get penalized??"
Sales guy: "Uh, yeah, well..."
Us: "Yeah, sorry, we're TOTALLY sold on the product (it was AWESOME) but it's too much money for us"
Long story short, the guy was there for THREE HOURS!! Came at around 6:30, when David got home from work, and left at 9:50. Want to know what our kids were up to? They were quite content in their room.
Going from this...
To THIS
If you're interested in Penguin windows and you have kids. .GET A BABY SITTER!!
7 comments:
That is a LONG sales pitch, thats why I don't answer the door, EVER :) Good luck next time :)
baaahaaahaaahhaaa!! That is hilarious! I am so sorry...but, seriously...that is so dang funny. The room is the thing that cracks me up the most. Oh, my goodness...isn't it absolutely amazing what those little stinkers can do. Ha-ha-ha...I'm still laughing out loud. I'll be careful with the penguins :)
Robert can do this to his room in 15 minutes!
This also happen to us. We were told that we would get $50 to Olivegarden. And we were planning to say NO. But we will listen to get the gift card. After about 3-4hours No gift card and that it would come in the mail. lol NO gift card in the mail.
Did you get the $25 for gas?
hahahaha. THAT IS GREAT!!!!
Atleast you got the gas card. This EXACT same thing happened to us in UT only the guy came at 9:00 pm and left at 2 am!! We weren't even coherent by the time the guy left. Troy was a month old and I was so mad over the lost sleep!! NEVER AGAIN!!
Was 3 hours of your time (DD's too so 6 hours total)really worth a 25 dollar gas card?
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