Filterqueen Majestic

[tilo76]

Hello, guys i am new to the forum, and i would like to know if any of the members is a distributor or a salesman for Filterqueen products. In 2028 this company will turn 100 years old, and i think they are already working on their next generation model, for the anniversary, and when it comes out i would like to have a home demonstration. If any of you is involved with this company, and has been through a training session, i would like to know how the Majestic performs against a Kirby or a water filtration vacuum, like Rainbows, Hyla, Delphin, Ritello etc. In their official website page, i read the bad reviews, and some thinks, the newest model that came out in 2018, has nowhere near the cleaning power and the build quality they used to have in the past. One woman said that the hard floor tool do not clean very well, and the power nozzle seems to get the dirt out only from the surface because you can fill some little stones or debris hitting your legs. Other claims that the Majestic looses suction pretty quickly with fine dust. On tik tok i posted a comment on guy that bought a unit one year ago and he told me they are very well build , and he has never experienced any loss of suction. I tried to write a mail to the company several times, but they never answered my questions. This is a strange company, all their competitors, do an annual conference every year on a different country for the distributors or sales people, showing how the company performed financially , their annual growth, new models, they don't.
Thanks for your attention.

 

[dysonman1]

Over the years, the door to door sales method has declined to the point in America today where it is nearly nonexistent. As a company,Filter Queen doesn’t do much volume in America as opposed to countries such as Japan, where they are going, great gangbusters, along with their defender air purifier. For almost 2 decades, the only change the machine has gone through, has been cosmetic with regard to the dirt container decal. You can buy a new machine in one of several colors. Purple being my favorite. But I digress. In order to bring out a really new model, someone has to add money for tooling, promotion, marketing, materials, distributor education, all of these things are expensive. My prediction is, we will not see that company lasting in America for more than the next couple of years. Although their demise has been spoken of on here for more than a decade. You don’t find too many people today who are willing to sell out $4000 for a vacuum cleaner and an air filter. Much less go into an unwise loan and high interest rate debt in order to buy one. Just my opinion as a filter queen owner. The old ones were better.

 

[panasonicvac]

I agree, the older ones were better made. And yours Tom is one of my all time favorite models, that'd be cool if you put your Filter Queen on top of your Speed Queen set and take a picture of them together, when I first discovered SQ I was thinking they were were related to FQ. Anyways, it wouldn't surprise me if the company goes out of business in the next few years. If they really want to survive and in hopes of possibly coming out with a new model (this goes for the others as well), they should expand by selling them to more places other than online like Amazon. But despite them lowering the prices, I wouldn't buy one. I think they're overrated. Why buy one of those where you can just simply get a Numatic Henry or a Lindhaus HF6 instead, those are WAY much better shop vac style machines in my opinion.

 

[human]

I had a Filter Queen Majestic like that a few years back. It just never resonated with me. Part of it was that it looked like it was in great shape when I got it for $5 at a thrift shop, but then I had to spend more than ten times that much to put it to rights. By the time I was finished fixing it up, it still didn't work all that well, and I finally donated it to my church's rummage sale. I hope they got a decent price for it.

I had a housemate back in the early '90s who sold Rainbows while in college. He would go on and on about how wonderful they were and how the old Hoover Convertible I had at the time was such a piece of junk. He also claimed Rainbows would blow Kirbys out of the water, but he never offered any empirical or practical evidence to back up his claims. I did all the vacuuming with the trusty old Hoover while he sat in his room and polished up his Rainbow for the next demo.

I do love premium vacuum cleaners like Electrolux and Kirby, and even though I was enthralled by a Kirby home demo when I was about ten years old, I would never let one of their arm twisters into my home, and I don't have to. Why would I pay $1,500-2,000 for a Kirby when they show up in thrift shops for $100 or less—often far less. Kirby's biggest competitor is the second-hand market for their own machines.

I don't know why it is, but the neighborhood where I live seems to be a major target for door-to-door sales people, hawking everything from vinyl replacement windows, roof repairs and replacement, to bathroom remodeling, telecommunication services, and even pest control. They don't seem to realize they're the biggest pests of all. It got so bad this summer that I had to finally break down and put up a 'No Soliciting' sign on my front door. So far, nobody's come knocking on my door since I put it up. If the permanent and preemptive 'NO' continues to work, the couple of dollars I spent on that sign will have been an excellent investment in my peace and tranquility.