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great choice

make sure you give Brian a call. How many Lux dealers do we have here. I bet you can get it for between 1000 and 1200. If I could have gotten it for 1000k I probably would have gone for that. It seems like a great machine.
 
Never mind a good price....just go with a Miele S8 canister with the flashlight on the handle! The telescopic tube takes up less room in the closet than the Aerus Platinum's two-part tubes.....and the attachments store under the cover of the canister. You can always attach an extension cord to the vac to make up for the shorter operating radius. And you'll get a much quieter power nozzle that deep cleans carpets better!
 
Yay! You've finally decided! I'm actually excited for you Matt....

Just curious - is it completely made in the USA? If yes, that's a big plus going for it....giving much needed work to your citizens.....

We want pics and YouTube clips! :-)
We want pics and YouTube clips! :-)
We want pics and YouTube clips! :-)
We want pics and YouTube clips! :-)

:-D EP Brian
 
congrats

GREAT choice. I was just answering an email from someone on this thread and he asked if price was no object, which one would I want. If I could sell my D4 for 750 with the box of bags etc, I think I'd pick up the Lux if I could get it for 1k with no shipping or tax. I only played with it for a bit but I really really liked that vacuum and I'm not a vacuum guy like you guys are. LOL.
 
Yes, eurekaprince ...

... I'm just now looking for the best price. Some new friends on this board have reached out to me, so I'm considering offers.

I've never posted a YouTube video. Don't really know how to do that. Here's the irony: I WORK IN TELEVISION. I've produced network broadcasts (not produced *for* network broadcasts, but actually produced them as an EP), but I honestly am so inside the industry that I can't fathom "producing" any video product without the help of an ENG crew including a shooter, audio tech, and videotape editor (not to mention the "dot-com" techie to actually upload it to YouTube).
 
NYC

That's perfect. I used to recruit accounting and financial execs (headhunter) and most were late on their own taxes and had others do it for them, lol. Let me know if you get one for 1k with bags and free shipping. I could be really tempted at that price and would probably put my D4 on the market at that point, lol.
 
7 P style bags come with the platinum. Even having a German shepherd that is enough to last me almost 6 months and I vacuum almost daily including all the furniture baseboards and everything else in the house. I don't believe in dust rags or swifters, so I vac everything
 
Lux PLatinum Bags

Luxman is correct,


You can stuff a ton of dirt in the style-P bag and they will almost seem like a brick when its time to change them. I too have a dog and think most will use about 6-12 bags a year with this vacuum. It is nice that the Lux bags, unlike cloth bags, are cheap and of good quality.


Brian
 
now you all have me rethinking

I love the D4 but if I could have gotten the Lux for 1k, I would have run after it. If I could sell the D4, I'd probably make that switch based on everything, lol. Headed out to vac place here in Venice FL to get a pre filter for my parent's upright Panasonic that someon forgot to put a bag in during the last change ;)....I'm down here to put their house on the market and get them moved into an assisted living home, lol. Have house cleaner coming tomorrow (and she's excited to become a Juice Plus rep with me). It never ends, lol.
 
NYC

you are right. Brian talked sense into me yesterday after I saw nearly every vac in this thread (the higher end ones). Even the store owner had the D4. He doesn't have it in the store to sell unless it's asked for since the Miele or Riccar sell over it. marketing or US made over the Sebo, lol.

Does anyone know how much the Tri stars are? They look good, but I noticed are less powerful than the Sebo even.

When will you purchase your Lux?
 
ctsooner ...

... I've been backed up at work these past several days. I'll be contacting those guys who "reached out" to me (I actually hate that buzzterm!) for better deals than the crazy price quoted to me at my local Manhattan dealership.
 
makes sense

I hated my Aerus experience to be honest. The guy quoted me list and was a jack azz about it. A woman then came in to pay for her's and she was paying only 1300. I asked if I could get it at the same cost and probably would hvae done it and dealt with my wife later, lol. He was rude and said I had to go to a home show to get that special show price. The woman was in shock as was I. It was his tone etc... I walked out never to return and the woman was right behind me. She said she could go to the next town over and get her's there for the same price. I was just so turned off and I felt if I wanted to buy one, I'd just ask Brian or one of you guys. I didn't fully understand that some of you are Aerus dealers and could have helped me out. Sorry bout that.
 
I'm ready

to buy my Lux Gaurdian Platinum now. I will be contacting Brian the first of the week.I hate buying something so far away from home(what if something goes wrong with it) oh thats right I still have my trusty old 53 year old Kirby as backup. Anyway I thought just for kicks I would call the crappy Aerus dealer in Billings, Montana to see if they have one.(But I am still buying mine from Brian) The Billings Aerus dealer told me the lowest price I could get one from them is $2,600 dollars. I kindly told them no but hell no was I going to pay that price when my new Rainbow wasn't half that much. They said well if I wanted one then that was the price.And of course I had to open my big mouth and tell them off. Told them last year I bought a brand new Gaurdian upright from them and they didn't even have the courtesy of delivering it to me or even calling me even once to see how I liked the vacuum or did I need bags etc. I told them before I hung up the phone I would not be buying any more machines from them. Well they have been blowing up my answering machine every day since then with apologies and kissing you know what to get me to buy from them again. And when they call I just look at the answering machine machine and laugh... Okay I am getting down off of my soap box now so everybody else can have a turn.. LOL Dan
 
That's unfortunately the wonderful experience you get from Aerus... I have written in another post on this forum under MY NEW AERUS VACCUM, you can read my posts about Aerus there. I have the Upright with separate tools and I like it, some flaws, but very bad experience in the purchase process. Its hit or miss with these Aerus dealers... while I like Aerus, I am just on the fence as to whether to go to another brand with better features and customer service. Who really wants to play games to get a darn vacuum, call up out of state Aerus dealers just to get the thing at a fair price. I am wondering the treatment I will get when I walk back into my Aerus dealer next Monday looking at the Platinum. If I really like the Platinum I will prob trade my upright in on the spot for it- but only if they give me a good deal since I am returning two years later....If not I will keep my upright and tell them to take a hike.
 
You tell them

we as customers aren 't going to take this crap from them.(And the customer is always supposed to be right,) Well most of the time anyways.. I just wanted to get one for my collection(God only knows I don't need any more) I have my old Aerus Gaurdian canister, and I really like it, even though it is plastic. I have always had really good machines from Electrolux(OLD) I still have my mom's old Turquoise G and it runs as good as the day we bought it in 1961.So I really hope this new Gaurdian Platinum is going to be a good one. I'll let you know how I like it when I get one... Dan
 
Emptied first bag tody

The bag was over half full. Just shows how much the Oreck left behind, lol. The filters are as clean as day one and I never lost any suction at all. Really loving it. Wish the demo I got was white though. Black shows scratches. White, not so much. It cleaned up nicely though and the wand is great as it's easy to store.
 

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