137 Things Window Companies Won't Tell You About Vinyl
Manufacturers spend millions in propaganda to convince consumers to
buy vinyl. If you are a typical homeowner blessed with a visit from your
local vinyl window salesman, you’ve probably heard things like: “Our vinyl
windows will last forever. We have a double lifetime warranty. Nobody beats our
prices.” Window dealers sell vinyl, not because they are so good, but because
the PROFITS are huge.
This article is a compilation of FACTS derived from many sources such as
books, magazines, and mostly the internet. Once you have researched vinyl for
yourself, you’ll think twice before falling for the sales pitch and putting poor
quality materials on your home.
My confession:
I made over $100,000 per year selling plastic windows and siding to unwary
homeowners. As an independent contractor selling for one or more dealers, I
could make thousands on one job by simply getting a signature on a contract. If
I was making that kind of money as a salesman, what do you think the dealer was
making? There were many well scripted sales “pitches”. I was the Marketing
Director or Advertising Manager. If you let us use your home for a model or show
home, we’ll give you a special deal. The fact is that if you spend more than
about $250 for most installed vinyl windows, you paid too much!
Conviction Brings Integrity
At first, I believed what my company told me about vinyl. “Vinyl is final”.
It would last forever. Homeowners would pay upwards of $600 to $1000 for an
installed window because the product was so good. After all, we are giving them
a “lifetime warranty”.
It wasn’t until a couple of years into it that my eyes were opened. Customers
were calling all the time about their windows sticking, water or air coming in,
or asking why their white windows started turning yellow? And because we
were just the “dealer” we deferred all the complaints to the manufacturer.
Unfortunately that vinyl window manufacturer went out of business and so much
for the “lifetime warranty”.
I decided to do my homework and really find out the technology behind vinyl.
What was found is astonishing! It didn’t take long before I knew that not only
would I never sell vinyl again, but I would never even put the product on my own
home…for any price!
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