How to avoid four carpet cleaning rip-offs

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RIP-OFF No.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 the ‘bait’ for their false and misleading advertising. They offer a cheap price, usually between £9.95 and £12.95 per room – and then, once they are in your home, they ‘switch’ by pressuring 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 tyres and steering wheel. Carpet cleaning is not as cheap as some unethical carpet cleaners would like you to believe ... but using them can become very costly for you!

RIP-OFF No.2: MORE BAIT AND SWITCH TACTIC’S.

In addition to just ‘switching price’ some do this with the cleaning system. Hot water extraction is a ‘dual-process’ of shampooing or heavy preconditioning, followed with hot water extraction cleaning. Unfortunately, unethical carpet cleaners often 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.