Vacuum Cleaners Discussions

2)  March 17, 2009:  While many independent vacuum dealers bad-mouth, lie of and/or dismiss James Dyson and his teams contributions, many others champion the man.  Watch James Dyson in his element - in his Malmesbury Headquarters.  NBC’s “Today Show”  http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-us&vid=71fa9222-10d2-413c-bf31-0007895697ac

2)  Older video news:  I could not resist...  A Hottie car-news chick mentions the rumor of Dyson working with car makers, and Oreck gets a mention too (funny).

www.blinkx.com/video/hamann-stallion-audi-a7-fast-lane-daily-24jun08/JQ18e2m7y5hiULCgEQWSvw

MOLE:

I agree.  From east coast to out west here I consistently hear negative criticism from big box stores and indy-s about the dyson tech reps.  Give out wrong information.  Don't give out the latest information.  Don't know the product line.  Don't demo the new products for weeks after the stores' launch.  Don't know the competition.  Change all the time.  Never see them. 

I'm not surprised.  Mr. Dyson, like DIB, impugns the vacuum pros and minimizes vacuum knowledge and experience.  Consequently dyson hires people with impressive credentials who don't know vacuums.  Why would engineers and technicians have to know vacuums to make them better?  They can get all the experience of 100 years in a few weeks of on-the-job training.  Learn by failing.  House wives too are eligible.  They use vacuums.  That makes them very highly qualified to be technical reps and answer client and customer questions.  Right?  Yeah, right!

Dyson doesn't know the vacuum industry and the vacuum history.  The biggest dyson fan alive made that statement time after time.  That's one he called right.  Unfortunately, he was too inexperienced himself and failed to look beyond this shortcoming to see the dire consequences several years later. 

Someone said it very well.  If you forget the past mistakes of history and don't profit by them [in dyson's case never knew them] you're bound to repeat.

Carmine D.

512?  Come on, Dusty.  That's over engineering.  One of the top ten reasons companies fail according to a study performed and conducted among USA fortune 500 business executives.  

All of GM with its 8 car divisions has less than 400 scientists and engineers to make all their cars more fuel efficient.

MacDonald's hired one top notch chef, brought him to the Hamburger College in Chicago, and in a few months he alone produced the chicken wrap.  Paid him a 6 figure salary.  A $1.50  menu item.  Turned the company's profits around by the end of the year. 

Carmine D.

The lowly house wife.  A self proclaimed pro admitted that it was his wife who convinced him to buy an Oreck.  He was so thrilled that he gifted 3.

I wonder why 40 years in the business and he did not know the virtues of the Oreck.

I answer and explain the same old questions and comments from you over and over.  My dear Wife is a genius.  That's why she married me! 

Carmine D.

Absolutely.  But one major difference: The weight.  The ORECK when launched was 1/3 the weight off the HOOVER Convertibles on the market.  And unlike the Convertibles, which were made to work with attachments, tho they never performed well, ORECK was always a rug and floor cleaner.  A classic.

Carmine D.

Some cons listed for Oreck:

Tends to clog. Doesn't perform well on higher pile carpets, especially if your home has any pets that shed. Small motor. Small fan

I understand that the Oreck uses a $25 (or less) motor.  You were critical of Dyson for this.  Why not tell us about the cheap Oreck motor.

I know Dusty.  But the issue is the 512 engineers.  It's called over-engineering.  Typical of a company owned and operated by an inventor.  Terrible business sense.  They can't agree on any improvement/change without a committee decision and majority vote.  Total grid lock.

The US has 100 Senators and 435 Congress men/women to run our entire country.  We have 302,265,496 people.  Our national spending is 13 trillion dollars annually.   Dyson runs a close second to our government with 512 engineers.  Dyson has 1400 employees and less than a billion dollars in annual budget.  Does that sound laughable to you?  It sure does to me.  Hysterical.

Carmine D.