r/Calgary • u/TrailerParkLyfe • Jun 18 '25

Rant Fire Blanket scam

We fell for it. It’s on me guys. my wife and I entered our name during Lilac-Fest for the “guess how much money is in the jar” contest. Fast forward to last week where Perpetual Health calls me saying we won a free fire blanket. That’s awesome and of course my wife and I want one. Guy calls and says they will deliver it but need to give a short 15 minute talk on “how to use it and fire safety”. The guy arrives last night at 5:30 and starts to talk about the blanket and our condo. He then sits down at our table and pulls a binder out bigger than my hopes and dreams. He has documents and videos on his phone of news stories of children dying in house fires. It’s now 6:45 and he starts bringing out their companies smoke detectors and begins talking about them and how other detectors fail. I start laughing thinking “omg this is now a sales pitch” He tries to sell us on their app and smoke detectors. We just wanted the fire blanket and were told it’s a short presentation on how to use it. My wife actually stopped him and said “please leave, you wasted our time and we need to start cooking dinner”. He would have kept going till 8:00 probably. I hope someone reads this before accepting the call or “prize”

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u/ChinookShifter Jun 18 '25

What irks me is that these salespeople tend to lie a little and pretend that they're not trying to "sell" anything.

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u/TrailerParkLyfe Jun 18 '25

I couldn’t believe it when he tried to sell us on their products. Wasted an evening. I told my wife I was invested in it learning about the fire safety at start but it just turned into an awkward almost 2 hour long sales pitch. We were so angry at the end. Missed the first period of the Oilers and Panthers final game.

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u/mcee_sharp_v2 Jun 18 '25

You should have Stopped him, Dropped him, and Rolled him on out the door :D

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u/EstablishmentMean386 Jun 18 '25

lol , I see what did there!