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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

This responds to a question raised here about the uses of the ORECK-s that are returned within the 30 day home trial period.

According to several of my ORECK sources, these returns are shipped to ORECK Clean Home Centers nationwide and used as loaner vacuums when non-ORECK brands are brought in for repairs.  In hopes of converting the vacuum users to the ORECK brand after using.  Apparently, the sales technique/promotion works.

Carmine D.

Hows the pricing on the repacks.

MOLE

The ORECK Clean HOME stores I've visited sell used ORECK-s.  These are usually ORECK trade ins.  Tho, I suspect at some point the loaner ORECK-s are also sold as used vacuums, if a customer is interested in buying and doesn't have the funds to buy a new one. 

I recently saw a used XL Classic [made and sold in 2004] priced and bought in an ORECK store by a customer for $100. 

Carmine D.

A great buy,how can you go wrong for 1 bean..............


MOLE

mole wrote:

By purchasing an Oreck.

CarmineD wrote:
They are also sold to dealers as "show" specials at a reduced rate and a 1 year warranty and are never in short supply.

Dusty

FYI:  Recently there was some discourse about the new CRI green label seal of approval and which vacuum brands are approved.  A question was raised about ORECK's certification.  At the time, I opined that ORECK, which has always received the CRI seal of approval since CRI's inception, was on the vendors'  list of brands with vacuums submitted for the new CRI green label seal of approval.  But, the final ORECK-CRI test results probably were not available yet and ready to publish.

Well, here's the final results and the latest on ORECK's XL and the CRI green label approval/cert:

http://www.vacuum-ratings.com/carpet.cfm

BTW, the above site came from the side banner of this Web Site.  It is an ORECK advertisement.  But, imbedded in the write-up is the actual CRI Web Site which the reader can click on to view/verify ORECK's CRI Green Label seal of approval/cert.

Carmine D.

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.

CarmineD wrote:
The main expense in the Oreck is the advertising.   With out ads the parts would likely cost $50.

I wouldn't doubt the amount.  I know that the HOOVER Convertibles were estimated to cost about $12 for parts to produce at the end of the 50's after only several years of production.  By the early 90's the parts' cost was probably still the same and perhaps less.  Such are the cost benefits and advantages of using the same design and applications in product production for many years.  It's called economies of scale.  In part, the reason that the retail prices of products should trend down over time.

Add labor costs [people] and overhead [which includes advertising] to the parts' cost and these bring the cost of the product up.  There are 3 main components to factor into a product's unit costs:  Labor, Material and Overhead.  While one [or more] may go down, the other component[s] may go up.

Carmine D.