Vacuum Cleaners Discussions

The 'Freedom' and 'Slalom' uprights, and the 'Xarion' cylinder cleaner. All employ 'Airvolution' technology.

You'll have to wander about the Argos site yourselves, as I can't be bothered battling with the silly formatting of pictures on this forum, and the website linking didn't work either.

Hello MOLE/DIB:

The Chinese are Asians.  Malays are southeast Asians.  Malaysian labor costs are one-third less than the UK.  James uses contract personnel to build dysons not employees.  Why?  Doesn't have to pay health costs, payroll taxes, and retirement benefits.  James got approval from the dyson Board [in a late night meeting on April 30] to withdrew $289 MILLION the day before the UK capital gains tax increased by 8 percent.  Why?  To avoid paying higher taxes to the UK.  National Icon?    

MOLE, your point is well made and taken.  Vacuum makers HAVE TO work together to survive especially in the present times.  Again, as above with the move to Malaysia, dyson is no different.  Where better and else for dyson to look for outsourcing than TTI?  The largest vacuum maker in the world.  Lest DIB believes all the dyson parts are home grown? 

I am not as informed as you DIB on all things dyson like the school.  Save what you and others post here.   But, not all here and in the UK view James Dyson as a national icon, like you DIB.  A savvy business man!  Evidence the above: Malmesbury to Malaysia, $289 MILLION late night withdrawal, parts outsourcing, and contract labor staff.  

The UK dyson backlash is real.  Witness too the recent ASA rulings [you posted them here DIB].  Decisions against dyson by a UK based ruling authority.  

Consumer Reports' ratings of dysons, while important in the USA, is not the problem/issue for the significant new dyson sales declines in the UK.  Dyson backlash is. 

Excellent timing for HOOVER UK to intro new bagless vacuum competition.  Coincidence too that it coincides with HOOVER's 100th Anniversary.  Timing is everything!  

Carmine D.

CarmineD wrote:
Take it easy Carmine, you’ll blow a gasket.  In the beginning, Dyson the tinkerer knew less than many vacuum repair men, but it was his belief system (faith) that made him a billionaire.  Nice guys do finish first... he remains a nice, giving fellow too.  Jealous?        DIB

DysonInventsBig wrote:

Lord, please make us all billionaires so we can be nice too.

Amen,

Venson

Venson wrote:
I wrote nice guys can do well and in that order, did I not?

DIB

DysonInventsBig wrote:

I was merely exercising my faith too.  It is written, "Ask and you shall receive.  Knock and the door shall be opened."

Venson

DIB:

It doesn't take genius to parlay $7.5 MILLION in legal winnings into $1.6 Billion in 7 years.  I could have done just as well, if not better, right at my computer with an investment in Berkshire Hathaway. 

Jealous?  Of money?  Me?  You're the one that always brings it up.  Not me.

Money is never a measure of human success.  At my age, I measure my success by the number of people who I want to love me;  if they actually do.  Not to worry.  You are not on the list.

Carmine D.

CarmineD wrote:

Why didn't you do it .  You definitely are not a genious.  May not take a genious but apparently it takes more sense than you have.  

HS:

How do you know I didn't?  Maybe I did. 

Maybe it was McDonalds.  100 shares in 1965 for $2200 were worth 18,000 shares and $500,000 in 1987.  Or maybe it was Genentech in the 1980's?  Or was it Valero in 1990's?  Or maybe it is Celgene in the 2000's and still?  Maybe it was commodities: Like gold?  In 2002, it was $250 an ounce, and today it's over $800.  Maybe it was gold mining stocks too?

Or maybe, just maybe it was all of the above AND Berkshire Hathaway too!  You don't know for sure, do you?  It only takes one of the above and the right market timing. 

Let me reiterate for you HS: At my age, you don't measure success in money.  You measure by the number of people that you want to love you; if they actually do.  Not to worry.  You're not on the list either.

Carmine D.

HARDSELL wrote:

 HS: 

It's genius!  And........you don't know that for sure, either.  I may not be a member of MENSA, but that doesn't mean that I don't meet their requirements.  It just means I choose not to join. 

Carmine D.

CarmineD wrote:

If you are a genius you do a dam fine job of hiding it.