Vacuum Cleaners Discussions

A while back, I think Carmine and I may have discussed Rainbow vacuum clones. I know that the Ocean Blue came up but it was not the particular machine I was thinking of.   I wracked my brain and could not for the life of me get the name of the thing right.  Well, I've come across it and its called Roboclean. Even more remarkably the company is not dead but still alive in Europe. I'd bet Trilobite knows something about itt.  See the following link --

http://www.roboclean.org.uk/products.html

http://www.swmarket.ru/aura_roboclean.html

Now, someone please explain international law and patents to me please.  This company even has an equivalent to the mini air freshener that Rainbow makes.  Is it possible that Rainbow either owns, has a partnership with or  interest in this coompany.

Venson

Trebor wrote:
Sometimes it's all in the approach.  A good while back when I was regularly using the Rainbow I have I decided I wanted the wide bare floor tool.  I checked on the price, found a dealer and told him what I wanted and that I was not about to pay the ridiculous list price -- and got it.  Sometimes it helps if you can let a vendor know that you know what he knows . . . .

For your list there's also Ocean Blue http://www.oceanblue.com/ and Big Power http://www.bigpower1.com/

Pro-Aqua http://www.pro-aqua-ltd.co.uk/  does bear a resemblance  to Hyla but Euro-Pro also made a similar looking water-type without a separator.

Venson

You are right, I did forget to include the ocean blue. The big power I did not include because it is not a separtor unit.

The baffles and so forth required by a non sep unit are messier and more complicated to clean.

The big question is -- how many people are actually buying these things as of late and where do they sell best as far as the U.S. is concerned?

Venson