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ORECK - The business, the history, the machine, the man and related.

(Below: Oreck 1979 to 2008)

  < yr. 1979  < yr. 5/2008

TELL US WHICH ANTI-ORECKER ON HERE MADE THIS STATEMENT.  THIS IS MY THIRD REQUEST FOR THE INFO AND YOU HAVE FAILED ONCE AGAIN IN ANSWERING.  

My good HS: 

I am the most ardent anti-Orecker, bar none.  Over 40 plus years in the business and never sold a new ORECK.  Turned Dave down when he wanted me to sell them.  Refused.  How much more anti-ORECK can you be?  Even Dusty, who pushes dyson as the best bagless over many bagged vacuums, sells ORECK-s.  Finally I bought one to make my dear Wife happy after she saw and used one many years ago.  She never stopped raving and ranting about it.  Said she loved the way it devoured this white powdery stuff in the store's demo.  She said it would do the same for all the sand.  She was right.  ORECK is the best vacuum we've used in my our home since the HOOVER WT!

Over the course of my 50 years in the vacuum business, I've personally and professionally visited at least 100 ORECK stores nationwide from coast to coast.  Based on my personal and professional opinion, I admit that they are the model for all vacuum stores to emulate. 

Carmine D.

HS:

ORECK provides a free in home 30 day trial.  If not 100 percent satisfied during that time, customers can return the vacuum free of charge and keep the giveaways. 

I presume if they keep the ORECK-s, they're satisfied.  If not, they don't buy and return.

Carmine D.

CarmineD wrote:

WEASEL,

This is your first anti-Oreck statement.  You really do not respond well when caught lieing.

HARDSELL:

In over 40 years of business, I never sold a new ORECK.  I never used a new ORECK personally until April 2007.  I'm the pro-HOOVER poster.  Right?  Isn't that what you always say.

You don't have to say anti-ORECK words to be.  Didn't you learn one of life's lessons:  Actions speak louder and longer than words.  I'm living and breathing proof! 

As I said, even the most anti-ORECK-er [me] agrees that the ORECK stores and staff are top notch in the industry.  Not because I will/wish them to be.  I take no credit for ORECK's success and business professionalism.  The ORECK stores and staffs are models for the industry to emulate. 

Carmine D.

CarmineD wrote:

Still trying to weasel out of your statement.  Take your medicine and calm down.

DysonInventsBig wrote:

Hardsell:  Bag makers (3M included) and vacuum manufacturers do not like the phrase "suction loss", they instead approve and bury in their manuals the clandestine term "Low pressure loss."  Why?  Because the average consumer has no idea what this term means.        DIB

HARDSELL wrote:

Hardsell,

I researched and brought to light that 3M (who many believe invented the best bag filter – the Filtrete) and bagged vacuum manufacturers do admit that their filters (the bag) suffer with suction loss.  But instead of using an easy to understand phrase of "suction loss" they use the techno term for it… “Low Pressure Drop”.  And because Low Pressure Drop means absolutely nothing to the masses, these guys get away with tricky messaging.  And for this you say sound like Carmine?  Hardly!        DIB

Heres something else for you to research,if a vacuum cleaner produces no vacuum ,HOW CAN THEY CALL IT A VACUUM CLEANER.

Now we will see if you have any history on the subject...........


REGARDS

MOLE

Hello MOLE:

Wasn't it an Englishman named Hubert Cecil Booth who first coined the word vacuum after his invention and his company.  In fact he went from house to house with his horse drawn street vacuum where the residents inside would hold "vacuum tea parties."  The muckety mucks would sip tea while the hoses from the street vacuum were shuffled into the open windows to do the house vacuuming.  Fast forward one hundred years and ORECK owners hold ORECK parties.  History repeating itself.

The Booth contraption was called a Puffing Billy.  About the turn of the 20 Century.  Then Spangler came along in 1907 in the USA with his portable version.   Boss Hoover marketed it for $75.  Should have called it "spangling" rather "hoovering."

Carmine D. 

When I had a minor repair done on my Royal upright, the manager told me that they have discontinued doing warranty work for many of the big box vacuums due to problems getting reimbursed.   They also have a lot of problems getting parts from big box vacuum companies.  He then sang the praises of dealing with Oreck.   Oreck stands by their products and supports the dealers, at least according to this guy.  

CarmineD wrote:

I'll bet those Oreck parties are a blast.  I have visions of all those folks at the nursing home sitting around drinking Geratol and swallowing pills while the janitor vacuums with the Oreck.