Vacuum cleaner salespeople posing as authorized dealers of The Kirby Co.
have been targeting seniors in Eastern Missouri in what appears to be a
scheme to get them to pay premium prices for old, often broken vacuums,
the BBB said Wednesday.
A 74-year-old retiree from South St. Louis County told the St. Louis Better Business Bureau that he paid $700 for a secondhand “piece of junk” that was advertised as a new vacuum cleaner.
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have been targeting seniors in Eastern Missouri in what appears to be a
scheme to get them to pay premium prices for old, often broken vacuums,
the BBB said Wednesday.
A 74-year-old retiree from South St. Louis County told the St. Louis Better Business Bureau that he paid $700 for a secondhand “piece of junk” that was advertised as a new vacuum cleaner.
More