Can any one tell me what the kirby sentria sells for in the USA.

They cost the equivalent of $ 3700.00 here, its insaine .

I am not very impressed with it we have had a few in the shop always with a busted fan , their are allot for sale secnd hand aswell.

why couldn't they just stick with the legend and herritage 2

Hi James

yes but you must remember this is africa we are talking about, if its on the floor it will get vacuumed up , what ever it is.

I am not a big fan of new , post g series kirby's I think they are very over priced and prefer a royal. I also find the latter g series models to be less reliable to the l1l2 h1h2 models . and for what you are paying I would expect better quality. In south africa you can by  6 dc25 vacuums for the price of one kirby or 9 miele cat & dog models.

I get so many g3's and g4's in for motor failior but a old legend will only come in for noisy bearings.

I just think like every thing else they aren' made like they used to be but they charge more , much more

Just my personal experiance 

had that two , I had one yesterday were the fan had melted into a mess but had become of shape so the vibrations cracked the main housing and bearing support.

As I said I prefer the royals , just as reliable but a quarter of the price and I think better looking .

Any vacuum can break especially if you don't look after it , my problem is not with the machine but rather the marketing department. I think they charge way to much for the machine

take Your g5 give it led lights , smooth all tha corners of the light housing making it rounder, put a new fan design on, a much more shinny handle with cheaper plastic, fit a cheap plastic chrome belt lifter ( that feels like it will break every time you use it and loks like the plastic found on cheap chineese toys   oh and change the colour , you have a sentria.

same weight same machine slightly different face , oh and they changed the armiture to give a little more power.

Sorry to all you guys who Love Kirby's But i really think the sentria was a poor model. I would rather use any other kirby to clean up my house than a sentria 

That is just my opinion though, I haven't had so many of a particular  Kirby in my work shop for repair , will not since the g3

I agree with you that the early models have had trouble with motors , I have over 20 g3/g4/g5's in our store room with burnt out motors.

I am only posting what I have found, the g6 Ultimate g and sentria are always in for either fans or gear boxes , people don't want to take them to the kirby dealership because they over charge, I happen to know what they cost to make , there markup is huge , beyond huge.

As i said before this is what I found in South Africa,

I will say that vacuums last longer in the uk than South Africa and certain parts of the USA , its down to conditions they are exposed to.

We have trouble here with certain dyson models that my freind who owns a dyson agency in the UK says are his most relliable machines.

our import duties are pretty low on vacuum cleaners , its not sen as luxury goods.

Only two branches in Cape town closed , both due to poor managment, Its a franchise here.

I happen to know by how much they mark the machines up by and I am all for making a profit but its insaine. thats why all the sales guys ddrive bmw x5's and mercedes e55's they only need to sell 2 machines a week to make good money , here especially among blue coller workers the kirby is seen as a statis symbol, Kirby's biggest market here is not the upper class but the blue coller workers . they allow them to pay the machine off.

funny thing is if you are really worried about allergy's and stuff like that you can have a central vacuum system like a beam installed for 2/3 the cost of a kirby including instalation and most houses here are brick not wood  

I agree with you James , there are allot of Good sales people out there , Like there are allot of good vacuum repair shops , unfortunetly you are right the bad ones always give every one a bad image.

Gareth

I am always amazed, we sell new vacs aswell as repairing vacuums and offer customers a trade inn on there old machine , which is why I have so many old vacuums. almost every week we get a customer coming to buy a new vacuum because the repair shop in her area told her her machine was not worth fixing , I take it into my workshop and normally fix it in minutes and ive it back to the customer working.

I had a sebo x2 comercial vacuum in for repair a week  ago, the circuit board had burnt out and sebo wanted £ 60.00 for it , My wife went to a local electronic components company and was able to buy ever part on the circuit board for way under £1.00 I soidered in the new pieces and sent it back to the customer  

we get so many bagles vacuums in with blown motors as the customer has just washed the filter and put in back in wet, and they look so surprised when you tell them they need to let the filter dry !