Attachment storage on used uprights

[fan-of-fans]

Does anyone notice, it seems with tool on board uprights, the attachments are almost always in disarray? I mean, whenever I see one on Craigslist, or in the thrift store, they almost always have the hoses wrapped around in some weird way. Or ones where the crevice tool stores down in the wand, they have the crevice tool inserted into the wand like it would be for cleaning so it's sticking up in the air. I mean, doesn't that seem annoying to have it sticking up a foot in the air?

If I'm going to sell a vacuum or something, I'd put a little work into the presentation to make it not look like I just stuck a price sticker on it and called it good.

Even worse are missing attachments. I mean, they store ON BOARD, it's not like they're stored in a bag somewhere else, why are they always missing at least one tool if not all? lol

 

[human]

More often than not, when I see a tools-on-board vacuum cleaner in a thrift shop, the tools are completely missing. Maybe the hose is there, but that's it. Often, the tool holders themselves are broken. Sometimes the machines are complete when they come in but as customers check them out, parts don't get put back properly and they end up getting strewn all over the store. I've even some thrifts try to nickel and dime the customers by taking the tools off, putting them in bins on the shelf, and selling them for like a dollar each, two dollars for the larger floor tools. I've also seen whole boxed toolkits being sold separately from their machines.

That said, I bought a Kirby Gsix at Goodwill a few years ago that had its toolkit mummified to the body of the vacuum cleaner with like a mile of packing tape. A couple of years later, I looked at, but passed on, a Diamond G at the same store that had been given the same treatment. Maybe at that store, they give the high end machines more respect.

 

[fan-of-fans]

If the attachments are stored onboard the vacuum, I don't see any reason to remove them and sell them separately, that's dumb. The vacuum will sell better if it's complete.

Most of the vacuums I see at Goodwill have their attachments with them. But with mixers I used to notice them splitting them up. I saw a newer Mixmaster a while back in the appliance section and the bowl and the beaters were in other departments, when clearly they all went together. I've noticed lately they seem to be better about keeping them together. Recently I saw a chrome Hamilton Bay mixer with its bowl and beaters all together. But sometimes hand mixers have their beaters and later they are missing.

Separate vacuum attachment sections aren't something I see in thrift stores here. It would be nice if some stores had a big stash of random attachments to look through and possibly complete some of my machines.

I did buy an Electrolux Grand Marquis at Habitat after looking at it twice. It had all of the attachments in a box as well as the power nozzle/wand set and floor brush/wand set. But by the time I got it, someone must have already bought the floor brush/wand set because it was gone. I figured at least I could still turn off the power nozzle for bare floors.

 

[gregvacs28]

Consider the situation in which thrift stores take in donations:
Most times people are in a rush to drop off stuff they no longer want(been there, done that myself), for whatever reason. They don't bring it in wishing all the best for it's future. Sometimes people donate because they can't afford a dumpster.

Than there's the people working at the store. You know what they're like. And with the volume of stuff they frequently have to deal with, they just want to get it in the bins so it can go to the main sorting center, and they can finish their shift. If mixer bowls end up in another box or another store, no one has the time or awareness to care.

Even the small store, single owner type places can be a jumbled mess. I recently talked to a store owner about holding some items they would typically throw away (and paying them for that). When she lead me into the back room, it was just piled high with hardly an isle to walk. Stuff 6' tall.

While ones, twos, and three things may sell and walk out the front door; people are dropping off boxes filled with 10s,15s, and 20 items in them. It takes them time to sort it, hang it, clean it, price it, etc.

Frankly, it would seem like it would be easier if they would just put the boxes out on the floor and let the customers sort it and pay by the pound. Fewer people handling would probably be better outcome for everyone.

 

[fan-of-fans]

I've heard of Goodwill stores that do that, just bins of stuff everywhere that you dig through and they weight your purchases. Not sure if I would like that or not.

Most thrift stores I go to have a bin with all kinds of mixer beaters. I bought a Mixmaster at one such store with no beaters with it and the lady there actually told me she thought she had the beaters in that bin, so we looked and she said I could have them with it. When I got home, it turned out they were for an older model and didn't lock in after all. Still, I thought it was nice of her to find them for me.