Vacuum Cleaners Discussions

• Oreck is conspicuously missing from the upright ratings.
• Panasonic has a new AeroBlast for $700 is a apparently a poor copy of a Dyson that burps loudly when it reverses the air flow to clean the filter.   Why would anyone pay so much for a Dyson copy, particularly when the filter clogs with fine dust?
  
• Hoover's fall from grace is noted, presumably due to their ill conceived bagless vacuums.  Hoover now has the worst reliability of the uprights.  Dyson is second only to Kirby in the reliability rankings.   
  
• For uprights, Kenmore takes the top 2 spots (bagged and bagless), followed by the Riccar SupraLite RSL3, the Electrolux Oxygen EL5035A, and the Kirby Sentria.  
  
• The Halo is #33 on the list for uprights. 
  
• The $60 Hoover Tempo Widepath has a better tool airflow score than the Dyson DC17 as well as better carpet cleaning scores. 
  

Carmine D.

Carmine D.

Talking about distressed vacuum prices, I mentioned to you in a private email a long time ago, that the BEST BUY store in Woodbridge VA offered me the entire inventory of new Electrolux models for 20 percent on the dollar.  When?  Spring of 2006.  At the time Matt mmc now Airblade commented that dyson had bested the Electrolux line at Best Buy which was dropping the line.  I told you I couldn't accept the deal because we were planning a move to Las Vegas in the summer 2006.

I also posted on another Forum [in which you participated] in September 2006 after the Electrolux models scored so well in the the Consumer Reports ratings, that BEST BUY stores would soon be selling them again.   By the 2006 Holiday season, BEST BUY was and still is.  In the same year, the line went from extinction to distinction and has stayed there.

Carmine D. 

Contrary to some statements here, the HOOVER Z will not be discontinued by TTI unless and until all pending patents are approved.  At last notice, some patents are still under review and others in use by HOOVER/TTI on new models

Carmine D.

HARDSELL, what question are you looking for an answer to.No selling parts in just extra income,the money is in selling refurbed dysons,the ones we buy for almost nothing from sources we have contacts with.Sometimes we even get a few dc15 $#%*. You know the one that failed to sell in the fancy high priced retailers.Which leads me to a question for you how come dyson did not give these retailers a full credit refund for the dysons that have been sitting in stock for over 6 months.

Hi Carmine these are oem dyson hoses,There is no bojack stuff yet, the second most popular item is the clutch and belt kit,we sell them at 50% off dysons price.

Would you like to sell them for us also.You can be the left coast parts center.......

MOLE

OEM, interesting. 

Ironic you should ask.  An indy here in North Las Vegas has made me an offer to repair and refurb just dysons for his store. 

He just recently took in the dyson line for the parts and repairs and to refurb all the trades and abandoned dyson repairs.  

I visit him from time to time.  He keeps asking me.  The owner is a friend and church

member in the same church as my daughter and son-in-law.  I'm mulling it over. 

Carmine D.

This is my original post :

We know that independents can't survive on sales alone and you want us to believe that ALL BUT DYSON are rarely repaired.  Again I ask. 

How have so many independents survived without repairing Dysons?

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I am not in the vacuum business so I can't answer your question.  I have no concern with the business end.  I simply tire of reading all the negativity and lies about Dyson. 

Hello Mr. Apollinax:

This WT model is post TTI takeover of Maytag.  Also slightly more expensive

than the Mach's.  TARGET is advertising it this week too.  Most other retailers

have the WT Cyclonic too [i.e. SEARS, Kohls, etc.].  WT model is widely known

and TTI wants to capitalize on it.  If I'm not mistaken too, it has one/more of the

features from the HOOVER Z.  But I don't know the specifics and may be wrong.

Consumer Reports did not include in its latest testing and reporting.  Probably

due to its newness.  I expect it will in October if not sooner in a short special

review. 

Carmine D.