HARDSELL

MH:

I got a rude awakening recently.  Why?  I read the water quality report issued by my local Nevada authorities on the composition of the substances naturally occuring and/or added in our drinking water and their quantities. 

Chlorine [I think this is a substance that qualifies as a bleach which Mike says deteriorates bag cloth] is one of the many chemicals that is added to Nevada water to control and inhibit the natural occurrance of microbes.  BTW, Webster defines chlorine as a poisonous gas used to purify water and to make bleaching chemicals and powder.

In any event, there is no doubt why I don't need to be told: Don't Use Water.  I don't drink it from the tap/filter.  I bathe/swim in it only.

Carmine D.

The U.K. calls it a brush bar,the U.S.A, calls it a brush roll,or for the old guys a beater bar brush combination.

Shouldnt a vacuum cleaner really be called an electric sweeper?????????

MOLE

Hiyardsell,

I'm sure you must live in a very blessed part of the country and am glad for you.  Please give me the name of your town so I may move there too.    However, in my neck of the woods, New York City proper (and please don't take that as bragging) the comparison for the cost of a plain old whole "fresh" chicken that I could buy from my local supermarket rates as exhorbitant.  The exact same price will not cover that of a couple of the old colonel's fried chicken breasts that would seem to price as though prepared as  haute cuisine.  Not even talking today but  several years back, I could probably have bought a whole chicken plus the farm it was growm on for far less money  than a few pieces of franchise-fried chicken even then.

If I recall correctly you made mention that you could get baking soda for fifty cents.  I just paid $1.29 for one box today.  To me it only goes to prove that whatever they wrote about all men being equal in The Constitution doesn't apply once you start shopping.

As well and as I stated, my comment was not to uplift Oreck but simply to say that the "Trust Dad," campaign seems to have worked well and people often to buy into it.  We have lived our lives here trusting Betty Crocker and the guy who made Dad's Rootbeer  -- and Arthur Godfrey too.

I know.  You're too young to remember.

Venson

Just a thought but . . .

Advertising is probably the most difficult part of selling to maintain an overview of as there is no exact measure per  part  or what its worth.  How much starts up word of mouth -- something you can't just buy -- as opposed to the influence of an actual ad campaign that constantly hits the public via TV dollar for dollar?. 

The services of public relations and advertising firms neither come cheap or are freely given.  They rack up money by billing for time used developing strategy, thinking about strattegy while in the loo or for actually talking about  strategy while on the phone. Even the expense of lunch served during meetings is added onto the client's bill.  In turn, product makers are not about to "eat" the cost themselves.Its only logical that their advertising expenditures are worked into the price of what they sell.

Oreck is whatever Oreck is, but I think what has helped to sell it is the same style advertising in the form of a reassuring father figure that helped the late great Orville Redenbacher, Colonel Sanders and Frank Perdue sell their respective products, popcorn, fried chicken and poultry products. Maybe Halo would have come out better if they'd rented an old man and shoved him in front of a camera.

Venson 

I went to the snopes Web Site recently to research a subject of an email I received.  Lo and behold plastered all over the snopes site is Dave and ORECK with sales ads through Sept 1.  Here's the site.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/dollarcoin.asp

He's everywhere!

Carmine D.