You have probably heard about rip-off carpet cleaners scamming unsuspecting homeowners for outrageous amounts of money. They offer cheap cleaning services in their adverts, but once they arrive in your home, it’s a different story. By the time they are finished adding up the bill, it could easily come to over £500. If you don’t fall for their bait and switch technique and insist on the advertised price, you will get very poor workmanship using little or no cleaning agents. And rest assured, you will NOT be happy with the results.
You will watch as one or maybe all of these nightmares happen in your home:-
- They will explain that the quoted price was only meant for cleaning some type of carpet that you don’t have. Or the price only included basic water cleaning and you need the more expensive cleaning.
- The advertised price was only for lightly soiled carpets and your carpets are heavily soiled and you therefore need a different process.
- They may do an unauthorised demonstration of an add-on service which will leave a clean area in the middle of your floor, forcing you to have the entire carpet cleaned using this high-priced method.
- They will subject to high pressure selling for work costing many times the advertised price. You hand over many hundreds of pounds. By the time they have left, you’re glad that’s all they’ve taken!