has it really come to this??

This is really long.......sorry......

SO, a couple weeks ago we had a visitor at our door. A Kirby Salesperson with free samples of dryer sheets if we would give them a little of our time. I was in giving the kids a bath and Chad is a sucker and couldn't say no. So....after about two hours of her vacuuming, cleaning, vacuuming, cleaning....I was getting a little irritated. I had some sewing I wanted to do, not sit and watch this lady show me how dirty my house was. (in all reality, it wasn't as bad as I though...the dirt...) Well, she goes through the whole charade of calling "her office" talking to some unknown person (I felt like I was on Deal or No Deal and she was talking to the banker guy) I don't know how many times but each time we would say "no, we don't want to buy" He would come back with some discount to "make the price more appealing" Well, after the guy on the phone "went as low as he could, a price that is only available at this moment" was done, the Kirby Lady supervisor stopped by to check her work, to see if she has cleaned enough. Well, she comes in, finds a spot on our couch and basically accused us of not having a clean house a priority. EXCUSE ME!? I was getting real irritated by this point. She then starts to bargain with us, trying to make the deal sweeter. (she even tried to butter us up by sayng that she though Chad was a Pastor!! Chad?) First of all, no Vacuum (or home cleaning device) should ever be 2300.00!! Well, eventually she came down to "The lowest price possible." 1100.00. "Our payments a month would be nothing, It would be only 10 dollars a week" she says. Personally, I don't want to have a monthly payment for a vacuum. No matter how much dirt it cleans up. She said this is a one and only deal, we'd never get this deal again. Well, we stood our ground. We said No. They probably felt bad for our kids who had to live in such a dirty home :) They left. I was kind of furious. But I got over it quick. AS I was sitting there listening to her saying this was the lowest price possible I kept thinking "There has to be a way to get this cheaper." But I didn't say anything. The next morning I got on the computer and went to good old E-bay. Looked up Kirby Vacuum. Low and Behold a 2009 Kirby Sentria cleaning System. Brand new. 263.00. I was so happy, yet furious. I couldn't believe that if we were foolish enough and actually purchased it the night before we would've wasted so much money!! Then I was extremely happy because deep deep deep down inside, I really want one! So now, for a fraction of their price I can have one!! Moral of the Story. E-bay ROCKS!