Quote from JimB on 07/16/07 at 3:22pm:

 
 
Hello JimB:
 
Then I guess you and dyson have nothing to worry about.  NOT!  
 
Carmine D.

Hey JimB:
 
BEST BUY stores are culling their dyson models as we speak, as are several other big box retailers.  Why?  Lack of sales.  Too long on the shelves.  To expensive to carry in inventory.  And more reasons.
 
I'm predicting an out-of-court settlement by dyson.  In the millions of US dollars.  I'm also predicting that larger numbers of dysons (sold as refurbs and repacks on the internet now) will be returned by buyers to big box retailers where they were purchased.  Why?  Dyson buyers will say they were mislead and deceived by the dyson product claims and they want their money back.  
 
Retailers will be forced to oblige or risk being sued themselves for having sold the dysons under false and misleading pretenses through false written dyson product claims.  Retailers will have to refund a portion of the sales price to the consumers to appease them and/or trade in the dyson models for a less expensive brand with a refund of money to the dyson consumers and/or outright dyson vacuum returns and no in-kind purchases.
 
Carmine D.

Quote from JimB on 07/17/07 at 11:31am:

 
Hey JimB:
 
I do a weekly parade of the vacuum sales on this Forum and this thread.  Do you read it?  Dyson vacuum products are conspicuously absent from the Sunday retailers' ads and have been for weeks.  Dyson ads will continue to be scarce in the months counting down to the 2007 Holiday season.  The ASA ruling which forced dyson to "revise" its brand's mantra will make it more difficult for retailers to command the huge dyson prices.  
 
The only option dyson will have to continue its pervasive presence among the big box retailers is by lowering its prices to be more in line with the current market prices for bagless vacuums.    
 
Time will tell if dyson, after 5 years of not doing so, will make wholesale drops in its prices.  
 
Carmine D.

Hey JimB:
 
I detect a real desperation in the tone of your posts.  Wanting to bet on whether dyson ads will be upcoming at one of dyson's biggest retail partner.  The store that encouraged the company to launch in the USA in April 2002.  
    
BTW, the ASA ruling was reported June 1, 2007.  Not late June.  Don't tell me that you didn't read it again!
 
I understand the dyson store prices at Kohl's are really lower than the prices advertised.  Why?  Kohl's stores are culling these dyson models from their inventory.  Why?  The DC07 is old, obsolete and out-of-date.  These DC07 All Floors have been in the Kohl's inventory for several years.  NPD counted them as sales in 2004! Still unsold.  After almost 3 years.
 
The dyson DC17 sales are miserable.  The sales have been terrible since the DC17 was introed in September 2006.   Kohl's (and other retailers) probably will no longer stock the DC17 once the existing inventories are sold out.  Why?  Too heavy.  Too costly.  Biggest reason: Customers are not buying the DC17.
 
My sense is BEST BUY will have dyson vacuum ads upcoming.  Why?  BEST BUY stores are also culling its dyson models.  The recent span of several weeks of dyson down time with no advertised sales has a purpose.  It's needed to do the nationwide dyson inventory counts before and then after the dyson advertised sales.  Why?  To note the number of dyson models sold and/or not sold before and after sales times to determine the final models for culling.  BEST BUY management reviews inventory on hand against sales on a regular bases.  Why?  To measure the sales trends and inventory levels historically over time.  When the sales numbers show consistent decreases while the inventory levels show increasing shelf time, the merchandise gets flagged and monitored and watched for culling.   It gets replaced by merchandise with consistently stable and/or increasing sales and less inventory shelf time.  
 
As I've mentioned, the housing downturn has had a severe and long lasting negative impact on household appliance sales.  Starting towards the end of 2005 and lasting through now and beyond.  Vacuums included.  Especially the high priced vacuums at the big box retailers like SEARS and BEST BUY, two of dyson's biggest sales partners by your own admission on the Forum.  Both retailers recently reported lower than expected May and June sales, quarterly sales, and year to date sales.  Both retailers revised their estimates for profits and sales through the end of the year and into next year.  Their reasons.  The protracted housing market sales decline which will last, by most experts' assessments, through the end of 2008.  
 
Carmine D.
 

Quote from old-timer on 07/17/07 at 6:51pm:

 
Your glee for and support for shoplifters and thieves that fence (a sugar coated  word for selling stolen merchandise) NIB Dyson’s on eBay is pathetic.  Not only Dyson’s but any power tool, electronics, Playstation games, Frontline flee medicine, etc, etc.  Just about anything one would want from Best Buy, Sears, Home Depot, Lowe’s, etc. can easily be bid on and “won” on eBay via individuals or eBaystore/pawnshops.  All the while higher prices are passed onto the upstanding moral consumer.  Why don’t you post your business address here or elsewhere and invite whores and thieves to steal from you or your loved ones just so people who do not like you can get a kick, a glee from your loss?
 
 
Here is just one more link proving thieves sell on eBay.  http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,206751,00.html?sPage=fnc.national/crime
 
Also…
In the first week of August CNBC t.v. series “Business Nation” is broadcasting "a how thieves fence on eBay" segment.
 
 
Below: A warm and wonderful human being with child stealing a Dyon vacuum...