Vacuum Cleaners Discussions

Walmart:  Vacuums and Floor Care > All Floor care > Top Seller

Best Buy:  Vacuums and Floor Care > [all] Upright Vacuums > Best Selling

Sears:  Vacuums and Floor Care > On front [lower half] of page  > Featured Items/Vacuums & Floor Care > Top Sellers
(Sears has no search filtering for "Best Selling", although Sears has "Top Sellers" listed on their front page of Vacuums and Floor Care).

Motorhead wrote:

The thread subject is about dyson technologies and big box retailers [which don't sell ORECK-s].   If the MSRP on a DC24 is $399 [the latest and greatest lightweight dyson on a ball] and the big box retailers are offering/matching incentives of $75 off that price [$324],  then they are not selling at the MSRP.

Carmine D. 

"With all due respect, the data at the .com sites does not reflect what consumers are doing at the big box stores.  In the stores, the best selling vacuums are far different than what is purchased by the more affluent internet purchasers.  I have never seen anyone buying a Dyson at my Walmart; however, I've seen hundreds of Bissells, Eurekas, and Dirt Devils being sold.  Perhaps this is due to the fact that I typically visit Walmart late at night, but that's my take."   Severus.

Points well taken.  

Carmine D.

Motorhead wrote:

Price most assuredly does matter with dyson sales and technologies [bagless and ball].  Hence the need for retailers to offer incentives from the dyson MSRP [which in the case in point for a DC24 exceeds the 10 percent dyson MAP and the reason it is unadvertised and the in-store price].

Carmine D.

Motorhead wrote:

These are selling points better made by vacuum professionals in the independent vacuum stores not by the sales people at big box retailers.   Sadly, the primary dyson sales venues are the big box stores which are suffering enormous profit and sales losses.  Many are and will go belly up.  These stores are culling their high price goods [like dyson vacuums] for lower price product that moves more quickly off the shelves. 

Carmine D.

Motorhead wrote:

If you suggesting that DC07 and DC14's are more properly priced at $300 in the big box stores, I am in agreement.  $250-$300 should be the top tier vacuum prices at the big box stores [most especially in the current economic times].  Above that price, vacuum consumers are better served shopping and buying at their local independent vacuum stores for value.

Carmine D.

CarmineD wrote:

As I recall DIB [originator of the thread] purchased a DC15 for $300 from BEST BUY when the MSRP was $499 and $599.  Price matters.

I purchased a new DC07 pink for $250 when the MSRP was $439.   Price matters.

Carmine D.

Motorhead wrote:

I would categorize a steal as a $100 product price for the same technology offered on $400 plus products.  Hence the reason for their popularity and sales.  I wouldn't categorize a $20 savings on a $120 MSRP vacuum at a big box store as a steal.   It's a very good buy.  When the $100/$120 product performance matchs or bests that of the comparable $400 plus models then it's a steal!

Carmine D. 

Finally,  take note that sales of dysons and market share have decreased over time in all sales venues and countries, despite the innovative technologies and costs savings that the bagless dyson advocates so oft claim.  This is due in large part to better and less expensive competition that fares as good and better when matched side by side to dysons.  A clear signal that price at least for bagless and ball technologies matters.

Carmine D.

I've added Sears to my list (see above/first post).  Dyson DC25 is ranked #2 only behind a Kenmore (for uprights).

DysonInventsBig wrote:

Very interesting take on your part by SEARS usage of "top sellers."

Kenmore canisters have always been the SEARS number one vacuum seller.  Kenmore uprights are very far behind.  Kenmore uprights are not even second in SEARS sales by units/dollars.  Yet, new upright vacuums over all sales venues outsell canisters almost 8 to1.  The sales position of best selling upright at SEARS belongs to another upright brand [and its not your fave].  

Interestingly, SEARS sells a DC25 Animal [with an MSRP of $549] for an advertised price of $467.  That's a 15 percent advertised price discount.   Dyson MAP permits 10 percent.    SEARS is in violation of dyson's MAP.   $467 for a DC25 Animal [TOL] is $33 lower than the MSRP of $499 for a DC25 All Floors.  SEARS is not even discounting its own Kenmore vacuums by 15 percent.   Such a sales discount is not usually associated with the latest and greatest brand models that are supposedly selling so well [you claim number 2]. 

Not one single person of all the many SEARS' customers who bought your fave dyson ball has recorded a single review for the DC25 Animal.  It rates no stars out of 5.  Look on the bright side.  Since negative stars are not allowed, then the customer reviews can only go up.

Carmine D.