Consumer's Guide
to Carpet Cleaning
Mike Breen
BestDry Carpet Cleaning
How to Avoid Three Carpet Cleaning
Rip-offs
Rip-off #1: Unbelievably Low Price
To some degree, all of us are attracted
by low price because we want to work within a budget. But some carpet
cleaners use price as a bait for their false and misleading advertising.
They offer a cheap price -- usually between $4.95 and $6.95 per room --
and then, once they are in your home, they pressure you into buying "add-ons."
It's as if you were buying a car and found that the dealer was charging
you extra for the tires and steering wheel. Carpet cleaning is not as
cheap as some unethical carpet cleaners would like you to believe.
Rip-off #2: Bait and Switch
Dual process carpet cleaning describes
the process of shampooing or heavy preconditioning, followed with hot
water extraction cleaning. Unfortunately, unethical carpet cleaners' offers
use dual process as a bait-and-switch technique. Here's how it's done:
First, they "bait" you with a basic cleaning (single process)
at an unbelievably low price. Then, when you call, they try to "switch"
you to more expensive dual process cleaning. If you don't fall for their
switch and choose their basic service, you'll likely receive poor workmanship
using little or no chemical, and they will not guarantee their work.
Rip-off #3: Unsupported Claims "This
Cleaning Method is the Best."
You'll read this in almost every ad.
You'll hear this from virtually every carpet cleaner. Remember this: The
method that's best for you is the method that achieves your goal. If you
want a method that cleans the deep down soil in the carpet, then a method
that top cleans only would not be best for you. So before you choose a
carpet cleaner, identify your objectives. Then select the method that
best reaches those objectives.
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