Since this is in the JOBS category, this is not a review of the product itself. My understanding is that the product is a good one. This review is about the business of selling Filter Queens. You will respond to an ad online or in a paper about a new distribution center opening. The ad will be vague and you won't be really clear on what you are applying for, just that it sounds like good money. You will call the provided number and be told to come at such date and time. If you ask any questions during this call, they will not be answered. Instead, you will be told that questions will be answered at the interview. The interview itself is a group interview. If the ad gave an email address for you to send your resume, you will be contacted almost immediately for an interview. Again, don't bother to ask the person on the other end of the phone any questions. The building, when you arrive, you will notice is run-down. After the group interview, you find out its a sales job. Well, first you will think you will be doing something with air quality and then suddenly, talk switches to vacuum cleaners and you discover to your dismay this is a vacuum cleaner sales job. You will be promised the world, high pay, paid training, pre-set appointments (no door to door sales), various benefits, etc. You will then have a 1:1 interview. As long as you don't ask too many probing questions, you will be invited back for a 2nd interview, which is really a week's worth of UNPAID training. You will have to quickly sign a contract, which they try to get you to not read, that states you are a contractor, training is unpaid, no benefits and no pay unless you hit quotas and make sales and have a certain number of demos a week. Yes, this is 100% commission. About those pre-set appts: people are called randomly and told if they will do a survey or sit thru a 20 minute presentation, they will get a prize. Your presentation is never less than 3-4 hours and you will find yourself on the receiving end of A LOT of peoples' anger at being lied to on the phone. Sometimes these people who answer the survey on the phone think you are at their house to just drop off their prize and nothing more. Imagine their shock and rage when they find out you are there to do a lengthy vacuum cleaner presentation! You have to do a certain number of demonstrations per week and getting kicked out of a person's home automatically disqualified that as a real presentation. You will also be forced to find your own leads by demo'ing and selling to friends and family members and going DOOR TO DOOR! YES, you heard that correctly: you will be going door to door. The turnover rate is astronomical, with a lot of people quitting within the first few days and hardly anyone lasting more than a month. A lot of people also walk out of the initial group interview and if you ask too many questions during the interview, you will be kicked out. Avoid!

My experience of filter queen started in 2000 when I saw an ad in the jobs section for a sales job, with full training and a huge salary. I called and was easily accepted onto the training week. The training was basically a week-long version of a one hour salesmans visit. The product was very impressive... but the price made me cringe as did the sales scheme. So I tried the job for a brief while, made very little money,so quit.. but I knew the product inside out. The bright shiny offices where I was based did not last for much more than a year or so after I quit. The managers were certainly doing very well for themselves when I worked there, sales reps mostly did not. £200 commission if you sold one, nothing if you didn't, and at £1750 (negotiable down to £1300.. shows the profit margins!!) you were lucky to sell more than 1 per week, the commission mostly spent on petrol.

Anyway.. sometime later, I saw one in the local paper advertised for £100ono. Son clearing out his elderly mothers belongings. £90 changed hands and it was mine! There was nothing wrong with it and I know how to service it. The UK distribution and servicing is now non-existent but its easy to get parts ordered online so am still enjoying owning probably the best cleaning machine on earth. They are excellent so long as you accept that if it does break, then you gotta fix it, which considering that they are actually ingeniously simple machines, and I did not pay £1500 (give or take) means I am perfectly happy. For those that paid lots, a different story.