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:

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.

CarmineD wrote:
You always spout off about numbers to back statements.  Give us the numbers for all major vacuums and let us see if they are all suffering.

DIB wrote:

"You always spout off about numbers to back statements.  Give us the numbers for all major vacuums and let us see if they are all suffering."

Which numbers? Number of units sold? Dollar volume on units sold? Total reveues including bags, filters, replacement parts and cleaning products? While sales of vacuums have remained at relatively high levels, I would venture that profit margins have declined for all vacuum manufacturers, as they have for manufacturers of virtually any product you care to name. To fight eroding profit margins, even Kirby has outsourced the manufacture of its componenets offshore, to be shipped to and assembled in the plant in Cleveland, OH. (Anyone know if Kirby still has their manufacturing facility in Andrews, TX?) The only real figure that matters is who will be left standing after the world wide economic market has begun its recovery.

Trebor