Bags are getting expensive!

[fan-of-fans]

I need new bags for my Kenmore upright and canister. I wanted to go with the cloth bags, but to get just a two pack of genuine Kenmore bags is almost $20 from eBay or Amazon! I heard good things about the Veva bags and they had 30 for $20 at one time, but it seems like the stock may be running out.

Has anyone else found any good sources. Since Sears closed we are going to have to likely get the generic bags at Home Depot or Walmart! I miss the old Sears yellow microlined bags. They stopped making them and now only sell white microlined bags or the cloth ones.

I just prefer using genuine bags in my machines! Even if they are generic as long as they are licensed by the manufacturer I'm good though. Like in my Eureka 1934A I use the Arm & Hammer bags but they are actually licened by Eureka so I feel like they're genuine. In my Bisell I got some Febreeze bags for it but I hear they are great too and they have the Bisell name on them.

Of course in my old Hoovers I have to use the vintage green bags!

I feel like bags are getting more expensive, almost makes me get why people want a bagless vacuum. It's rediculous how much they are. Will have to start looking more at thrift store bag bins!

 

[dysonman1]

In one year, with the trump tariffs on china and china's tariffs on the U.S., the price of vacuum bags at Wholesale has almost doubled. That means the package of vac bags I used to sell for $20 is now $29.90. Almost all genuine vac bags (like Kirby) are made in china. People are complaining (I tell them they need to VOTE in November).

 

[vacuumdevil]

Simple supply and demand.
Since the Chinese beer virus, people have been buying vacuum bags to cut up and use as face masks. This is created a shortage.
Also at the same time there was a shortage of n95 masks which were manufactured in a lot of the same places as vacuum bags.
These two things combined together every two prices of anything made out of spun polypropylene.

Bags still cost much less per year than going Bagless.

 

[n0oxy]

the solution is simple

The solution is very simple but for some reason companies are unwilling to do it. Move production back to this country and make the bags here, problem solved.
Mike

 

[vacuumdevil]

@n0oxy US manufacturing is the solution to a lot of problems problems.
Unfortunately it's costly and harder to do than you would imagine these days.

 

[lesinutah]

Covid 19

Is the reason for the shortage on bags. Veva bags if there the HEPA bags are better than OEM. I Have Kirby type f bags and type C bags from Veva. I have Kirby OEM and Kenmore OEM bags. Riccar Type B bag, Sanitaire type ST, VEVA type f bags are the best bags I've used.
Les

 

[huskyvacs]

Stay off Amazon - the prices are always high. I seen a speaker shelf listed there for $20. The exact same thing from AliExpress costs $9.

 

[lesinutah]

Prime

AliExpress is a website for India type website.
I have prime and I got the 30pk of bags for $10.
Amazon isn't for everybody but AliExpress I wouldn't recommend.
Ebay is your best bet.
Les

 

[human]

+1 on eBay

I buy my third party bags on eBay. They work great and they're very inexpensive. I use Multifilter brand 'C' and 'U' bags for my Electrolux canisters and uprights respectively, which ordered in bulk cost about 60 cents each. Kirby Generation Series bags from Envirocare can be found for about $1.25 each in bulk and often come with extra belts as well.

 

[madman]

US manufacturing is what we need. Is it going to be expensive and suck for a long time? Yes. Should we keep letting China steal our middle class? No.

 

[lesinutah]

Demand

With production coming to the US again it will help. It won't be outrageous but forever.
They will have distribution centers, manufacring plants, alot closer to customers. It might start a little extra but hopefully it would get competition and make lower prices.
Les

 

[human]

The problem is the U.S. can never be competitive with China on wages. Their overpopulation problem has a side benefit of providing an abundant and dirt-cheap labor pool, which more than makes up for cost of shipping goods overseas. By contrast, labor is one of the most expensive components of manufacturing in the U.S. American workers would never stand for being paid on the same scale as Chinese workers, nor should they.

This disparity was brought to the fore a decade ago when the federal government bailed out GM and Chrysler. My dad was a GM retiree, having worked for the company for 32 years. In the 2010 bailout, he and other retires were allowed to be shed from the books as "toxic assets" and his company retirement benefits, other than Social Security, were cut off as of 2013.

 

[vacuumdevil]

@human