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.

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.

CarmineD wrote:
Carmine,

This is the second time you claim to have what it takes to become a billionaire (or at minimum, a multi-millionaire).  Stop.  Please.

Google - billionaire + "James Dyson".  Lots and lots of people like a good come from behind story...  see for yourself.        DIB

DIB/HS:

I'll respond to you offline, so this thread stays intact and on subject.

Carmine D.

Below are 2 screen captures from 2 television commercials/adverts...
Top photo:  Dyson DC24 “Ball” advert.  Launch date: April, 2008 (approximately).
Bottom photo:  Hoover UK “Slalom” advert.   Launch date: Sept, 2008 (approximately).

•   Both women are wearing the same style of skirt.
•   Both women are wearing the same colored skirt.
•   Both women have the same/near same styled shoes.
•   Both women are pushing their vacuums around block-styled white/off white furniture/cabinetry.

Hoover UK,...  lazy or leaders?

DIB

DysonInventsBig wrote:

Hello DIB:

It's the same old lesson for you and dyson to learn [aka Economics 101]:  It's not who does it first.  It's the one who copies the best and sells it for less!  

I suggest dyson get a new macro/mico economist. 

BTW, the "Slalom" looks and sounds much more exciting and appealing than the "Ball."  Maybe dyson needs a new marketer too.  Not to mention the 475 dyson engineers who thought it was clever to use all the leftover ball wheels from the barrows on the dyson vacuums.

Carmine D.

CarmineD wrote:
Hey Carmine,

It is a proven fact those who are first usually own the market.

Your love for communist sponsored Chinese "rip the throat of margins and jobs" TTI, is well...  un-American.  You speak like a poor man (always on the side of cheap goods at any cost) and not like the rich man you claim to be or can be obtained easily.  It is the same old lesson, just another day...  jealousy of Dyson.

DIB