Vacuum Cleaners Discussions

I received this "teaser email today: http://links.mkt2388.com/ctt?kn=1&m=2735925&r=MTgwOTM1MTgzMTcS1&b=0&j=NzgxMTAyODMS1&mt=1&rt=0
Anyone know what's up with this??

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Well if you're going to go down the road of copying, Sebo's upright in the 1970s was the first on the market with a wand and hose located at the back. I dont see many moaning about that! Anyway for me, here are the points of both Sebo and Miele uprights. Miele S7 Luxurious, very easy to operate and has a long pipe at the back with a lightweight telescopic height adjustable suction pipes. Then there's the handy suction control either with rotary dial movement or the digital panel types. Very easy to locate and to generally clean with. It is Germany's most expensive DOMESTIC upright vacuum cleaner and Sebo are not worried at all about Miele snatching sales. The difference is that Sebo are first and foremost a commerical vacuum cleaner company and Miele have never shown much interest in this area. However I found the S7 too large and bulky around my home particularly in view of the swivel neck. Miele admitted initially that the S7 was designed for the UK but unless you live in a mansion it can be difficult to get around with the S7's size in general UK homes. Sebo X series Smaller and more compact than the S7, the blue print for Sebo's X design is to make everything as accessible and automatic as the last X1 Automatic model which that model was simple to use and simple to clean. Therefore the wand at the back is supposed to be light, just as light as the tubes are on the K series and much lighter than the pipes/tubes that Miele offer on their cylinders. The X series is old though and Sebo are aware of it, their opinion is very much of the "if it isn't broke then don't change it," policy. The auto electronics do have some weaknesses; the sensor wheel is very sensitive to sealed floors. My own recent X1.1 seems to make this known when I go from tiled floors straight to carpet as the computer tells me there is a problem and the head doesn't rise when going onto carpet. Upon calling Sebo UK they admitted that this could happen as the central sensor wheel is so sensitive it can't tell the thickness or thinness when travelling over grout seals. On raised tiled floors, Sebo's X model also suffers but then again it isn't marketed as a tile / hard floor vacuum and thanks to lifestyle changes and fashion as it has been dictated with laminate flooring, more and more consumers are expecting vacuums to go with the times. Another issue that the X has is a weakness to its left hand side where the fly wheel is located where the brush slips on. It doesn't have edge cleaning facility on that side and the only solution is to then go for the bigger foot size X5 which has both edge cleaning sides. Sebo's X is also a great general carpet vacuum that gets on with the job efficiently. Sebo have no interest in glossing up their vacuums, adding bits here and there that could effectively go wrong early on. When asking about a headlight, Sebo have no intention of fitting one. The U.S is the ONLY country that specifies in a headlight as the rest of Europe dont generally bother and for a small company like Sebo where the European market is their biggest financial share and interest, I dont see a commercial based company putting a headlight on as being important.

Dib-ster:

I don't see a bowling ball size wheel on the HOOVER UK upright like a DC24/25.  I see a tilting/rotating handle holder.  No copying, robbing, thieving, or imitating of dyson ball.  Just a better functioning design and application than dyson's allowing back and forth and side to side cleaning strokes with less arm, wrist and elbow strain.

Carmine D.

 < Chinese owned VAX’s masterstroke -

which only followed Dyson's DC11's success

Surely Dib-ster you're joking.  Dyson's DC11 has the shortest running production in the USA of any vacuum in over 100 years of the industry.  Retailers couldn't give them away.  Dyson took them back for credit.

Carmine D.

CarmineD wrote:

Cameron,

Are you residing in Europe?  What can you report of the DC11’s European and/or non-European (non-USA) countries success or the lack of?

Last word was you were hunkering and residing in two extremes (typically)…  shiverin – ‘your rear off’ or sweating – ‘your rear off’ in the retirement Shangri-La (aka the Vegas desert).   Can you see Europe from Vegas?

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Dib-ster:

According to your dyson facts and figures, the USA represents two thirds of the new dyson vacuum sales market.  Dyson's DC11 gets pulled from two-thirds of its new sales market in less than 9 months, never to be seen ever again.  If that is your definition of "successful" product/sales, dyson needs a better spokesperson here because you are selling fish oil to beefeaters.

Carmine D.

advertised a new previously unthought-of dish, developed a huge following for this dish, then had some suits from Pepsi Co. eat at your place, take take-out from your place, study your ingredients and copy your dish/s... that’s all perfectly legal and so is them moving in across the street and so is them beating your pricing by 40% and after you lost your business, your home, your self esteem you’d have old-Trebor patrons eating in the Pepsi Co. store looking at your closed business saying no laws have been broken, Pepsi Co. is just giving me more value for my dollars and I’m sure Trebor and his home and his family and his kids and his kids college tuition's and his planned retirement date and ability to move to be closer to family will be just fine.  It’s just business and no laws have been broken.

 

 

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CarmineD wrote:
Cameron,

I’m guessing TTI missed your Dyson-data harvesting (cruising malls and parking lots and talking with dealers who’ve nailed new and used Dyson’s to their floors).

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 P.S.  I do not remember stating 2/3rds.

Lucky1 wrote:

No doubt your gargantuan [some] vac margins and money made sellin rubber-bands and sacks is attractive.  But I’d rather jump on the Dyson’s achieves or gets - the most attention, most free publicity, most word of mouth, most patents, most 1^st to un-mined segments (ex: Dyson Ball line), most ad dollars spent (probably a U.S. record) gravy train. - But that’s just me.

 

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DysonInventsBig wrote:
Dustmite,

What makes you think Dyson has the most patents?   Have you got any evidence?   I seriously doubt it. 

I'm sure that Mr. Dyson appreciates your life long commitment to providing him with word of mouth advertisements.

Severus wrote:
I misspoke...he has the most money making patents of the last 20 yrs (except for maybe 3M's and others sack patents).  And others have more (in numbers) and more worthless patents (few or no competitors even bother to knock-off).  Speaking of uprights and canisters.