Vacuum Cleaners Discussions

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.

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.

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.