ericaustin
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Sooooo excited! It has been forever since I have had a tech drive Kirby! I have decided to sell all of my other machines on ebay. I just don't have the closet space.
Look what I ordered off ebay today!
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kirbyvertibles
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oh that looks very nice I hope you got it for a good price.
cue003
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Eric, congrats on the new purchase. I know the excited feeling you are having right now since I just got my new setup as well. Enjoy.
Congrats! Enjoy!
Do you still have your Kirby Generation 3 with the metal fan? Do you still have your Sanitaire with the metal fan? Thanks.
ericaustin
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Kirby G3 and Sanitaire
The G3 is at my parents' house. I sold the Sanitaire already.
The G3 is at my parents' house. I sold the Sanitaire already.
kirbyvacuum
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G6
Hi Eric I also have the G6-2001. I love the G series i also have a G3,4,5,6,anoung many 500 series Kirbys. Good luck Doug
Hi Eric I also have the G6-2001. I love the G series i also have a G3,4,5,6,anoung many 500 series Kirbys. Good luck Doug
Do you still keep in contact with ttuee2006? How has he been doing? Everybody misses him on VacuumLand/YouTube!
human
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Nice. Looks like the one I grabbed from the dumpster, but in much nicer condition. I looked inside the dumpster the next morning, but didn't see any attachments. Found a set on eBay for a G5, though. Same stuff but gray plastic instead of black.
electromatik
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That's my all time favorite modern Kirby. Love that black/yellow color. It's a giant bumblebee ready to sting dirt.
ericaustin
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Ttuee2006
I chat with him once in a while. He's doing well. We both kind of got out of collecting. In my case, it's just not practical for apartment living.
I chat with him once in a while. He's doing well. We both kind of got out of collecting. In my case, it's just not practical for apartment living.
fromadifferentplanet1996
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ttuee2006/tristar left the internet when I was 12 years old because he accused me of stalking him on Flckr and I wasn't held responsible due to how mentally/emotionally damaged I was from years of masking autism and lying to people about it.
centralsweeper63
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That is a shame to hear.
cheesewonton
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Darn. There is no need to hide being on the spectrum. There is so much help available out there if you seek it. Our little boy is on the spectrum so we have some hands on experience. I don't know your age but it is never too late to seek help through things like Applied Behavior Analysis, Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy, etc. It really does help. A lot.
centralsweeper63
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I hope you can feel safe being yourself around others now.
fromadifferentplanet1996
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That was a beautiful response. For the record, I'm 29 years old. ABA therapy and speech therapy did save my life.
TTUEE2006/Tristar apparently was dissing machines other collectors/enthusiasts like in spite of their flaws.
There are also rumors he was disrespectful to my ex-girlfriend back in the day, a relationship that didn't work out and resulted in a break-up a year later. However, I can say this, he didn't know her and he wasn't responsible for what went down.
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Now seems to be the time to buy Kirby’s on eBay, there are several at a good price. For a while, there was nothing under $250. I toyed with getting another but I think two are enough for me.
centralsweeper63
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I hope your life has kept going well since then. I hate to see rudeness in the vacuum community.
Absolute Rainbow
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Good for you, I guess. Have fun with a fundamentally outdated machine.
centralsweeper63
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Absoluterainbow, you don't have to come into a thread about Kirby and a previous member an make rude remarks.
fromadifferentplanet1996
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That was the most heartless comment I've ever seen from you. Are you forgetting that some of us are on the spectrum and that we have feelings?
Kirby is not outdated, it's old-school. Learn the difference.
TTUEE2006/Tristar aka Eric left the internet because he had this wild claim I was stalking him. I was 12 years old when he left the internet in 2009, and I wasn't held responsible due to mental/emotional damage from years of masking autism and lying to people about my disability. TTUEE2006/Tristar aka Eric didn't take kindly to my relationship with my ex-girlfriend, which ended a year after it began because the relationship had no future at all from being young and immature and not so much about her family (I grieved for a decade before finding out what really happened). I realize this claim is inaccurate because he didn't know and if he knew, he was disrespectful about everything. In all fairness, I'm glad he's gone because he was acting very entitled towards machines that other collectors enjoyed (sorry not sorry).
centralsweeper63
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That really was a heartless and empty remark. I thought that was quite passive aggressive, therefore I will not continue in this conversation if people keep making remarks like this.
cheesewonton
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Well, a Kirby is no Dyson, so you know ..................
centralsweeper63
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Yeah I don't get how I could like a Kirby, too dangerously heavy.
human
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Yeah, that's why I have a bunch of Kirbys and no Dysons.
Well, a Kirby is no Dyson, so you know ..................
cheesewonton
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A few years ago on a Japanese auction site where I often buy interesting vacuums I saw a Concordia Tiger, the 100 volt Japan market version of an Electrolux Ambassador, advertised as an "antique vacuum" with the seller warning "it's no Dyson". Naturally I bought it
centralsweeper63
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Good job there. Silly person selling the ambassador.
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rivstg1
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'dangerously heavy'? how? Vacuums are supposed to be on the floor....not whipping them about all over the place. Sure its heavy but I use them regularly ( along with others_ and i don't make it a habit picking them up and carrying them. So unless you are using them on the stairs......I don't follow your comment especially with 'dangerously' included....never ever heard that before.
Absolute Rainbow
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Guess some of you haven't heard of any compact uprights, carried over canisters or stick vacs.
cheesewonton
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If you have ten foot ceilings like we do there are places where you sometimes need to pick the vacuum up and carry it while vacuuming unless you have a ten foot long hose. Most vacuums do not have long enough hoses for our ceilings and standing on the floor using an attachment on a wand doesn't get everyplace we need to clean. I am talking places like the ledges of the windows over our doors, ceiling fans, or when we change HVAC filters the ducts need to be cleaned before the new filter is installed.
I will also say from lots of first hand experience that Kirbys are a royal PITA to turn and maneuver between furnishings. If your home has long unobstructed hallways and big rooms with widely spaced furniture all covered by acres of wall to wall carpet then a Kirby might be easy to use. In a home with mixed floors, less floor space and a mixture of human and cat furniture, gravity water feeders for your fur babies a big heavy Kirby is no fun to use. They also do not slide under furniture like a canister vacuum's power nozzle does, forcing the hard working Kirby user to move furniture to clean under where with a canister or even some low lying uprights from Sebo you can slide the vacuum under the furniture.
I have Kirbys and respect them in many ways but don't try to minimize their many shortcomings compared to modern vacuums that cost a fraction of what Kirby's typically sell for.
