Vacuum Cleaners Discussions

I don't know if anyone has seen this but I think I like it better just by hearing how it sounds, seems much more quiet than the Oreck. This vacuum comes with a 6 year warranty at only $399, pretty good deal. Sorry if this was posted already.



HSN Video:
http://home-solutions.hsn.com/hoover-platinum-collection-lightweight-bagged-upright-vacuum-with-handheld-canister-vac_p-4709906_xp.aspx?webm_id=0&web_id=4709906&sf=hw&attr=644&ocm=HW|644&prev=hp!sf!644&ccm=HW|644

CarmineD wrote:

It's not the use of a bag, but the 'top-fill' description which amuses me. What, aside from Vorwerk, has used a bottom-fill bag in the last 20-25 years!? It's a little like saying 'with electric motor - no bellows to pump!'

ORECK uses top fill dirt bags since its inception in the 60's, when many were still using bottom fill bags. 

Carmine D.

CarmineD wrote:

But we're now in 2009 - have they really developed so little in that time that they're forced to pad out their features list with 'top-fill bag' nearly 50 years later?

Lightweight uprights are the industry envy now.  Reference: dyson's DC18 and DC24.  And now HOOVER/TTI.  ORECK pioneered the lightweight upright, it is ORECK's mainstay product, the industry lightweight leader and the original, which others copy.  Copying/imitation are the highest forms of flattery.

Carmine D

The ORECK use of "top fill bag" is truthful, accurate, and correct.  Attributes which never get old and out of date even after 50 years. 

If some here can get enthralled over 50 year old obsolete technology patent drawings of a defunct company, I suspect ORECK can find some people who like to read its "padded" features.

Carmine D.

CarmineD wrote:

I guess that says a lot for all the Dyson imitators out there...

CarmineD wrote:

Yes, and in the UK at least, those people peer at such features through half-moon spectacles, when their aching fingers force them to put down their knitting.

Model2 wrote:

Absolutely.  Works both ways.  If dyson is praiseworthy for having its copycats, then the same goes for ORECK.  Most especially if the vacuum innovator of the 21 Century, as we are told here, is one of the copycats.

Carmine D. 

Model2 wrote:

God bless them, they are still alive and well despite all their frailties!  Air-Way is dead and gone despite all its technological innovations.

Carmine D.

Model2 wrote: Model2,

Yes, CR and Which may recommend other cheaper and/or more featured and/or better rated vac’s over the Oreck.  Yet, when a person is sold on the idea of buying an Oreck vice anything else and since the Oreck has a high price tag...  the cheaper w/more features Oreck-like Hoover looks financially enticing (i.e. hurts Oreck’s sales).  Additionally, I believe Red-Hoover at will, can destroy most anyone on pricing since they are Chinese owned and control much retail shelf space (Hoover, Dirt Devil, VAX, etc.).  A $98 Whisper proves this out.  Surely Red-Hoover instills much fear in their competitors.  Fear, not of innovation, but of being knocked off and then underpriced.


DIB