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Post# 176250 4/7/2012 at 17:20 (4,401 days old) by bagintheback  (Flagstaff, Arizona) |
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Riccar is now selling new vacuums directly from the company. I'm not sure what to think of this. I am happy American made products are now more widely avaible, but this will certainly hurt their dealers.
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| Post# 176251 , Reply# 1 4/7/2012 at 17:38 (4,401 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa) | ||
 I don't know that it will hurt the dealers at all. People who shop online hardly would go to a store to buy a machine , If your product is not available online they simply buy a different one. If I am not mistaken dyson was one of the first large company"s to sell there products themselves online. It helps widen there brand.
We sell machines online and in our store. Its interesting to note that many customers will look at the machine online but still come to us and buy it in the store.
We personally deliver every vacuum we sell online in Cape Town and there is a massive difference in the customers who purchase online to those who come in to the store.
One thing it does do is that it helps stop bad dealers screwing customers over on price. | ||
| Post# 176257 , Reply# 2 4/7/2012 at 20:10 (4,401 days old) by sebo_fan (Scotland, UK, member AKA ukvacfan, & Nar2) | ||
Yes, but the U.S is not S.A and the U.K have very few private dealers in so far as privately owned electrical shops are concerned; most have closed down because of the mark up they've had to put on products and buyers getting it cheaper at the department stores and "big box" franchises like Comet, Currys et al. I'm sure you are aware that shopping experiences differ per country, not marked by the same products all continents get. Shopping online has its pros and cons too - but I admire private dealers if they still hold a market share for profit.
There's only a handful of shops I know that are still independent in Scotland compared to the 20 to 30 I knew of back in the 1980's. One shop in Edinburgh for example is notorious for SEBO uprights but also sells refurbished commercial versions of Hoover uprights from the 1980's that are virtually unobtainable online. | ||
| Post# 176279 , Reply# 3 4/8/2012 at 01:15 (4,400 days old) by Blackheart (North Dakota) | ||
I could be wrong but | ||
| Post# 176346 , Reply# 4 4/8/2012 at 12:50 (4,400 days old) by bimmer740 (Long Island, New York) | ||
I'm not too familiar with Riccar products but I too thought their prices seem very high. Just out of curiosity I looked at the Premium 35' Direct Connect Electric Hose Kit for their central vacuums and saw the power nozzle kit costs $859! I think that is outrageously over priced compared to even some of the most expensive kits on the market, which I don't think I've seen any for more than $600. Is there anyone more familiar with what the retail cost at a dealership is on some of the Riccar machines?
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| Post# 176349 , Reply# 5 4/8/2012 at 13:43 (4,400 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa) | ||
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| Post# 176374 , Reply# 6 4/8/2012 at 17:28 (4,400 days old) by director12 () | ||
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Riccar-branded bags for Hoover, Eureka, and Panasonic? How strange. | ||
| Post# 176391 , Reply# 8 4/8/2012 at 20:07 (4,400 days old) by Kirbysthebest (Midwest) | ||
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The RSL$ Online is roughly $225 higher than I paid at the vac shop. | ||
| Post# 176397 , Reply# 9 4/8/2012 at 20:38 (4,400 days old) by kirbylux77 (London, Ontario, Canada) | ||
Riccar Factory MSRP Prices....
If you go to Riccar.com, & take a look at the info for the vacuums online, the prices on Riccar's online store are the same as the MSRP prices on the official website. And even then, the prices aren't that much higher than what vac shops charge....in my area, there is 2 shops selling the Riccar Pristine canister for $699 & $799, vs. the $999 MSRP price on Riccar's website.
The prices won't be Riccar's drawback here....it's the fact that they are STILL promoting their vacuums to be "made in America" yet they SHOULD be putting "assembled in America"....that's what the actual truth is, as they are still putting underneath "with globally sourced components" in miniscule lettering. Anybody with a brain knows that means it has Chinese-made parts in it. They aren't fooling anybody, especially those consumers who do their research online & are comparing Riccar/Simplicity models directly to Miele & Sebo models. Nobody would buy Made in America with Chinese components online, when they can buy Made in Germany for about the same price online. Plus, as Bagintheback pointed out above, this will hurt their dealers, & cause some resentment. The dealers WILL backlash over this, especially if they do more than just sell from a factory online store. Same as what happened to Miele when they chose to start selling online & in retail. Especially when I have heard that many dealers still aren't satisfied with the quality of Riccar/Simplicity products....this will give them even more excuse to drop their line of products from their stores. Rob | ||
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