My father was with Kirby on and off for 30 years, until 1985 - I have memorabilia… something notable were his annual calendars for 1977 and 1979 -full neighborhood communities in california drawn out… just fascinating ..new subdivisions-full of memories My dad was a character and a gentleman.
The "salesmen" they have now are even worse. The distributors place blind ads in the papers and online and get thugs,drug addicts and criminals.and load them into a van and dump.them in a neighborhood. The weasel their way into homes offering a free gift and then bully,insult and intimidate people into buying their crap to get them to leave
Yes because they only get paid per sale. If they dont make a sale, no paycheck. You basically are working for free and wasting your time. I knew a guy that worked for a Kirby sales office that had one of the salesman get a gun pulled on him. Not just any handgun, a full on shotgun. People are nuts.
Holy shit! I remember my parents' had roughly half of those Kirby attachments (bought in the early 1970s). The majority were never used (e.g. de-mother).
It was probably made ambiguous on purpose so they could reuse the film for several years until it wore out. If not that, they made it ahead of time during a development period so they could have time to train hundreds of salesmen before the new model rolled out of the factory. @@Adam-Mercer
Theoretically they could. Any person that had enough capital to buy hundreds of them from the factory to sell on commission could apply to be a sales representative.
An Ameche look-alike, or the genuine article? Shame on anyone who would lend his name to this foul cult! A feature film on Kirby would be desirable, pinpointing the flaws and deceptions of this racket. I took a job with Kirby, not knowing what I was getting into, after my freshman year in college. (I needed a summer job.) We went through a day of training and there was the usual idiocy of singing Kirby songs. One young man even invented a song called “Put Your Hand in the Hand of the Man who Sells a Kirby”, based on a pop song with an unmistakably pentecostal flavor. The first day on the road lasted until after midnight. On the second day, I was fired for correcting the sales manager for using the word “orientate”. That was my good fortune. That was well over fifty years ago. I would never buy a Kirby because of the inflated price and the ludicrously meretricious sales “techniques”.
Kirby vacuums are the quintessential door to door salesman product,this film needs a 4k restoration and should be made into a feature film.
Not sure what the salesman were like but I have a dual sanitronic from 1965 and it still works better than any modern vacuum I've ever had!
The Dual.Sanitronic 50 was the nicest Kirby made.
I have a Dual Sanitronic 80 "Brave Little Toaster" vacuum, works very good, so many attachments and functions
The vacuum in the book was a hoover
There’s a video like this called at the crossroads! Please more KIRBY recruitment videos!
The Kirby guy hosting the film is actor Don Ameche
My father was with Kirby on and off for 30 years, until 1985 - I have memorabilia… something notable were his annual calendars for 1977 and 1979 -full neighborhood communities in california drawn out… just fascinating ..new subdivisions-full of memories
My dad was a character and a gentleman.
The narrator is just as I would imagine a Kirby guy to appear, specifically the mustache. I bet he drove a Cadillac too
Naj the 1:50 thats the Korean war that the last as of the early to mid 60s.
16:56 17:03 I didn’t know you can use the floor polisher for the shampooing. 🤩
I remember in the 80's some young guy came to my house and was demonstrating it to my mom. She didn't buy one and the sales man got kind pissed.
The "salesmen" they have now are even worse. The distributors place blind ads in the papers and online and get thugs,drug addicts and criminals.and load them into a van and dump.them in a neighborhood. The weasel their way into homes offering a free gift and then bully,insult and intimidate people into buying their crap to get them to leave
Yes because they only get paid per sale. If they dont make a sale, no paycheck. You basically are working for free and wasting your time. I knew a guy that worked for a Kirby sales office that had one of the salesman get a gun pulled on him. Not just any handgun, a full on shotgun. People are nuts.
Did he make it to Forbs magazine?
Holy shit! I remember my parents' had roughly half of those Kirby attachments (bought in the early 1970s). The majority were never used (e.g. de-mother).
Isn't that Don Ameche?
Isn’t one of the “salesmen” interacting with his wife actor Murray Hamilton?
The newest model is like a luxury car
This is from around 1963
1965. Kirby sold the dual sanitronic 50 from 1965-1967
@@Suddenlyits1960 well yes, but this is not promoting the Dual Sanitronic.
It was probably made ambiguous on purpose so they could reuse the film for several years until it wore out. If not that, they made it ahead of time during a development period so they could have time to train hundreds of salesmen before the new model rolled out of the factory. @@Adam-Mercer
I've actually met Ray George's son.
A Kirby Avalir 2 model today: $2,599.
Sanitronic sounds like a band that was formed in an asylum.
My first full month selling Kirby I made $4,500
If this were such a great place to work, they wouldn't need to make predatory recruiting films like this.
Also, I am no longer the whitest man who ever lived. Thank you, I guess, Kirby
That would be the guys in the ad.
1:40 “they have sales offices in every city in the United States “ 😮😮
“Every “ city????
I highly doubt that. . 🤷♂️
Theoretically they could. Any person that had enough capital to buy hundreds of them from the factory to sell on commission could apply to be a sales representative.
An Ameche look-alike, or the genuine article? Shame on anyone who would lend his name to this foul cult! A feature film on Kirby would be desirable, pinpointing the flaws and deceptions of this racket. I took a job with Kirby, not knowing what I was getting into, after my freshman year in college. (I needed a summer job.) We went through a day of training and there was the usual idiocy of singing Kirby songs. One young man even invented a song called “Put Your Hand in the Hand of the Man who Sells a Kirby”, based on a pop song with an unmistakably pentecostal flavor. The first day on the road lasted until after midnight. On the second day, I was fired for correcting the sales manager for using the word “orientate”. That was my good fortune. That was well over fifty years ago. I would never buy a Kirby because of the inflated price and the ludicrously meretricious sales “techniques”.