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Post# 251335 , Reply# 1   9/26/2013 at 04:08 (3,836 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa)   |   | |
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I think this is very clever, If you go to a vac shop they often tailor the vacuum to suit your needs. Its cleverness like this that will make more sales. Its kind of like a car remember when your only options were colour and a radio? Now with some company's you can build the car from scratch basically. This is great news.
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Post# 251339 , Reply# 2   9/26/2013 at 06:36 (3,835 days old) by Vacuumfreeeke ()   |   | |
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A customizable vacuum sounds good, but Eureka as failed to impress me in recent years... |
Post# 251382 , Reply# 3   9/26/2013 at 13:07 (3,835 days old) by sebo_fan (Scotland, UK, member AKA ukvacfan, & Nar2)   |   | |
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The concept has already been done - Miele announced this way of custom building vacuums on their UK website some time ago. Im sure other approaches by other brands have also done it.
The trouble is, most UK buyers are savvy - and most already dislike the high cost of Miele vacuums with added optional costs tagged on. If Miele UK hadn't supplied so many accessories to begin with, they wouldn't have such a hard battle to convince buyers to the site that custom building is cost effective - when in reality it really isn't. Another problem is that in the UK there are very few private dealers who now sell vacuums as well as repair them/offer extra consumables and tools. That older, much preferred service where it was possible to get decent customer service from a reliant service and personnel has sadly died out. Some shops still exist but they're very rare to find. |
Post# 251395 , Reply# 5   9/26/2013 at 15:00 (3,835 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa)   |   | |
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In all honesty you can't expect to get much for a $ 49.00 machine. I see this so often in my shop, customers come in and go " oo I dont like that brand I bought one of there cheapies and it only lasted 2 years I was very dissapointed" I never understand this, you buy a vacuum for the price of half a tank of gas and then complain when it only last a year or too.
We get the exact oposite when customers come in who have a $ 1000.00 vacuum and it breaks after 2 years and they go oh well we got good service out of it. Considering that a few decades ago a cheap vacuum would cost you two months pay if not more and now you can buy one with pocket change its not that bad. I always say if its cheap and last for a year then it has paid for itself a few times over. |
Post# 251406 , Reply# 6   9/26/2013 at 16:15 (3,835 days old) by sebo_fan (Scotland, UK, member AKA ukvacfan, & Nar2)   |   | |
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