Vacuum Cleaners Discussions

1)  Nov 21, 2007 James Dyson t.v. commercial parodied on Saturday Night Live.

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

Thanks MOLE.  I get by with a little help from my friends. Like you! 

That's a wonderful rug test for uprights.  Tho the rookies here will cry 'trick' of the trade in defense of the poor showing by their brand.  I like to call it the truth of the trade. 

Carmine D.

CarmineD wrote:

Your Oreck will not do itt.  Neither wll the Oreck hand held.   All those Hoovers you bragged about had the worst hose suction on the market.   

mole wrote:

Mole or Carmen,

which in your opinion has the best hose suction.  DC14, Royal Eminance or Kirvy Sentria.

HS:

I presume you addressed this jointly to MOLE and/or me?  

You didn't specify the method for testing the hose suction of these vacuums.  What method/means did you want us to use for measuring the hose suctions to determine good, better, and best among these 3 uprights? 

Carmine D.

CarmineD wrote:
Thanks DIB.  Carmine, the truth (or should I say irony) is that bojack DYSON parts are actually MORE expensive than genuine.  It would cost the customer more if they brought their machine to a regular vac shop and had non-genuine parts put on it (of questionable quality no less) than it would if they brought it to an authorized DYSON service center.  Due to all of the steps it takes to become an authorized service center for DYSON (benefiting from the assortment of inexpensive genuine parts), it is of no surprise that bojack parts do cost more, due to the lack of desire (or inability) on the owner's part to take the effort to become an authorized service center. 

-MH

CarmineD wrote:
Not true.  That claim does not hold water because if you were to take the motor from a Panasonic AeroBlast and try to fit it in a DYSON upright, it would not work.  DYSON uses a different motor.  Just because the bojack replacement motor is Panasonic-made does not mean the original (or genuine replacement for authorized DYSON service centers) is.

-MH

Hello Motor:

Replacement parts [even genuines made by suppliers] are subject to price reductions and variations based on the quantity ordered and indy-stores making the purchases. 

A timely store payer with a track record of good payments and large monthly orders may receive the genuine parts from a supplier much cheaper than a dyson franchised store receives from dyson.  Right?  Of course!  Dyson is required by contract to charge the same prices for parts to all its franchisees.  Not a generic parts supplier.  A blanket statement that all replacement parts [even genuines] are more expensive through a parts supplier than through the company [in this case dyson] is wrong.  Each specific part and store would have to be compared.  More truthful, as a blanket statement, is that the dyson parts, especially if outsourced, are more expensive to and from franchised dealers.

Carmine D.

 

Motor:

The panasonic motor is just one example.  Vacuum makers, like dyson, who outsource the production of their genuine parts are wonderful for all vacuum stores.  Why?  All stores not just franchised dyson have access to buy the same genuine parts.  And in cases, less expensive than buying from dyson/vacuum maker.  A critical dyson vacuum part [the motor which is the crux of the machine] is available to all [franchised/not] from the supplier [panasonic] who makes/provides the genuine parts to dyson.  Being franchised is totally irrelevant.  In fact, buying from dyson rather than direct will be more expensive since you are paying a middle man [dyson] a profit for handling and processing.

Carmine D.

Motor:

Many dyson customers may not want to bear the cost and/or time to send their dysons back to the company for repairs/seek out a franchised dyson dealer for parts and repairs.  They may instead go to a closer, maybe even more reputable, more experienced, and a familiar vacuum store for the dyson parts and repairs.  Even if the store uses replacement parts and not genuine parts.  That's the customers' choices and decisions to make, not you and dyson.  Especially if their dyson vacuums are out of warranty, and/if they are not as entralled over dyson any longer as a result of using.

Here's the real irony.  Dyson fans, like you, will lambast indy's for selling vacuum store brands that are bagged for the profit in bags.  But, conversely, when dyson charges more for genuine parts than replacements [which is almost always the case] to make more money from its dealers and customers, dyson fans are silent.  No complaints and no objections.  Where one stands, depends on where he/she sits.

Carmine D.

HARDSELL wrote:

H.S. i was NOT talking about suction delivered at the end of the hose,i was explaining how air movement and suction is delivered at the rug cleaning nozzle,Thats the part with the brush rollor in it,

But since you asked about the KIRBY,ROYAL, AND THE DC14, the suction at the hose end on the dc14 is a little more than the royal,the Kirby is a fan first open chambered set up,has tremendous air movement, suction at the hose end is between 35 and 40  on an iwl meter,not very much,the dyson and royal are between 70 and 98 total, but do not touch the kirby for fast and though rug cleaning, HAVE I LOST YOU YET? .

This is why a canister or tank set up cleans as well as any upright out there,with the right agitator or powerhead set up,The hey day of uprights are over,besides not to many people have carpeting in their homes anymore,except for a few scatter rugs here and there.

MOLE