Thread Number: 30062
/ Tag: 80s/90s Vacuum Cleaners
Riccar/Panasonic |
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Post# 334024 , Reply# 1   9/15/2015 at 22:27 (3,143 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA)   |   | |
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Post# 334026 , Reply# 2   9/15/2015 at 23:04 (3,143 days old) by fantomfan57 (Central Texas)   |   | |
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Never seen one of these......early re-badge??? |
Post# 334069 , Reply# 3   9/16/2015 at 08:59 (3,142 days old) by dysonman1 (the county)   |   | |
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It's actually a good value for the money. $95 isn't too much for a top of line model. The hose can be REPAIRED with no expense, the cord guards are both there on the bottom of the power nozzle, the machine is clean and all the tools are there.
Tacony had this machine (and it's matching Simplicity model) made for them by Panasonic. Dealers knew they were really "Kenmore" machines - but it was at a time when Tacony was just starting U.S. production of their uprights. Plastic injection molds are VERY expensive (think about a million bucks each), so there HAS to be enough anticipated sales to warrant the expense. Canister sales have slowly been dying in the U.S. so it doesn't make a lot of sense to spend millions of dollars on injection molding when it can't be recovered quickly. The Riccar/Simplicity "Kenmore" models were available for about three years. Making them rare - and a collector's item. Chad S. from Michigan was gracious enough to give the Vacuum Cleaner Museum a perfect Simplicity example, and I have a brand new Riccar (like the one in the auction) at the Vacuum Cleaner Museum already. |
Post# 334078 , Reply# 5   9/16/2015 at 11:58 (3,142 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina)   |   | |
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When you add in the $40 for shipping, the total expense to acquire that machine is pretty stiff. I saw a similar Riccar canister about six months ago at a thrift shop around here for about $20 and didn't even look twice at it, but then I'm totally not interested in plastic vacuum cleaners--canister or upright--to begin with. I wasted about $375 on a Kenmore Progressive canister about 15 years ago. It was a total piece of junk and I never want another one. It had to be repaired twice under warranty within the first year. Both times, it was a matter of cheap, flimsy plastic parts breaking. Needless to say, I left that POS behind with my ex-wife. They deserved each other. Since then I've become a total metal-head--the heavier the better--when it comes to vacuum cleaners.
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