Thread Number: 32213
/ Tag: Brand New Vacuum Cleaners
Saw an almost never used Kirby 100th |
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Post# 354443   6/24/2016 at 00:47 (2,834 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)   |   | |
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anniversary vacuum today in a thrift shop near Philadelphia today. It was the new 100th model... a guy had in his cart. I saw the tools on a shelf and told him, "you know, the tools for that are over there on a shelf". He thanked me. The cleaner was $23.00 and the tools were $18.00 I was dumbfounded. The thing may hjave beenuseed once. HOW DO THINGS LIKE THIS HAPPEN?? It boggles the mind! |
Post# 354455 , Reply# 1   6/24/2016 at 09:45 (2,834 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina)   |   | |
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More importantly, how does Kirby stay in business competing with itself on the secondary market? Who in their right mind would pay full retail for a new Kirby when late model (barely) used machines are so readily available for literally pennies on the dollar? And I say this as one who greatly appreciates the excellent quality of their products.
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Post# 354470 , Reply# 2   6/24/2016 at 12:23 (2,834 days old) by dysonman1 (the county)   |   | |
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Post# 354486 , Reply# 3   6/24/2016 at 16:43 (2,833 days old) by SharkCar19998 (Michigan)   |   | |
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The Kirby Avalir is the 100th Anniversary Model hence the picture of a avalir handle down below. Kirby started making vacuums in 1916 with the first being the vacuette
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Post# 354504 , Reply# 4   6/24/2016 at 22:00 (2,833 days old) by Dysonman1 (the county)   |   | |
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Post# 354509 , Reply# 5   6/24/2016 at 22:30 (2,833 days old) by speedqueen (Harrison Twp MI)   |   | |
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I thought not, but Jim Kirby's Grasshopper came out in 1912, pre-dating the Vacuette. |
Post# 354511 , Reply# 6   6/24/2016 at 22:53 (2,833 days old) by SharkCar19998 (Michigan)   |   | |
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Post# 354528 , Reply# 7   6/25/2016 at 08:34 (2,833 days old) by rugsucker (Elizabethton TN)   |   | |
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--can be confusing.I think Regina claimed"since 1892"but that would have been for disc music players.Vacs came later with the ElektricBroom much later.Royal claimed "1905"but again I think vacs came a bit later. |
Post# 354534 , Reply# 8   6/25/2016 at 10:09 (2,833 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)   |   | |
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disput a vacuum cleaner company on their dates, patents, etc. It's not my place to change history. We all know the Hoover history, and the facts tat Kirby and Regina have and state. To quote the great Johnny Matthis, "It's not for me to say". That only leads to trouble and sometimes embarrassment on some level. I was just amazed when I saw that thing in the aisle, and then the wrapped up tools on the shelf. The man who bought it might have a store or something, as I later saw him at another store. Or, he might just do his weekly scan as I do. This vac was immaculate. Shocking, in any event. |
Post# 354537 , Reply# 9   6/25/2016 at 11:43 (2,833 days old) by dysonman1 (the county)   |   | |
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Sharkcar, you are VERY incorrect.
The Ezee was NOT made by Scott and Fetzer. It had NOTHING to do with them. When I was President of the VCCC we used to publish a newsletter. In one of them, we had reprinted the original Ad for the Ezee. It was made by Frantz Premier in Cleveland in 1914. Jim Kirby's FIRST electric vacuum came out in 1910, also made by Frantz Premier. I kept all the old VCCC newsletters from 'back in the day' when the VCCC was VERY much different. Jim Kirby was an expediter for the US government. He met Scott and Fetzer, who were making pistols (not vacuum cleaners) in 1917 and his job was to try and get them to make MORE, faster, as there was a war going on (WWI). Scott and Fetzer's first vacuum cleaner was the Vacuette of 1919. While people may 'believe' that 2014 would have been the 100th anniversary model Kirby, people also 'believe' in all kinds of things that are not true. Like bearded white men in the sky who grant wishes. Every once in a while, the Vacuumland 'vac of the day' will be an advertisement called "welcome your Kirby man" from Scott and Fetzer from the 1950's. You'll note the ad says "Sanitation for the Nation since 1919". |
Post# 354605 , Reply# 11   6/25/2016 at 21:32 (2,832 days old) by panasonicvac (Northern Utah)   |   | |
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Post# 354619 , Reply# 12   6/26/2016 at 01:12 (2,832 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)   |   | |
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Post# 354620 , Reply# 13   6/26/2016 at 01:23 (2,832 days old) by fooseofhoove (Minnesota)   |   | |
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Post# 354643 , Reply# 14   6/26/2016 at 09:12 (2,832 days old) by vacuumlad1650 (Wauponsee, IL)   |   | |
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Post# 354644 , Reply# 15   6/26/2016 at 10:56 (2,832 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina)   |   | |
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Post# 354655 , Reply# 16   6/26/2016 at 15:51 (2,831 days old) by kenkart ()   |   | |
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Was 1959. I have a 260 upright with the gold trim. |
Post# 354656 , Reply# 17   6/26/2016 at 16:30 (2,831 days old) by UniversalDave1 (Gardendale, AL)   |   | |
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