sebo_fan
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Firstly, even if a SEBO X4 can be picked up second hand, buyers want NEW. Very few will consider second hand.
Secondly, second hand SEBO uprights can often be abused. I've learnt my lesson there. I don't hook on every listing on EBay with the hope that the machine has been properly serviced. "Refurbished" to a lot of sellers means a new brush roll, a new filter and a new bag installed. They forget to check the drive belt though which is often missing teeth, let alone the rest of the machine inside.
SEBO parts have forever been available via their national telephone number - but most buyers of " generation " that prefers bagged vacs these days don't tend to like passing their credit/debit card details on a phone or even online.
As for the 2.4 kg SEBO PN. Well that's just the PN weight itself Marcus. No point in considering that alone if the weght of the additional cylinder model behind it OR the Felix isn't taken into consideration as well!
Generally the people who have asked me on the recommendation of an upright bagged vac are looking for something light and easy. And they are not always the "infirm and elderly."
Light and easy usually translates to something like 4 to 5kg, in which the question of a cylinder vac soon arises because there aren't that many uprights that weigh that. Then for carpets, the option of a turbo brush comes in if those buyers concerned can't get past the heavier weight issue of the uprights..
That's the main issue these days where bagged uprights are concerned; there doesn't seem to be that very many of them unless you go down the premium route.
Secondly, second hand SEBO uprights can often be abused. I've learnt my lesson there. I don't hook on every listing on EBay with the hope that the machine has been properly serviced. "Refurbished" to a lot of sellers means a new brush roll, a new filter and a new bag installed. They forget to check the drive belt though which is often missing teeth, let alone the rest of the machine inside.
SEBO parts have forever been available via their national telephone number - but most buyers of " generation " that prefers bagged vacs these days don't tend to like passing their credit/debit card details on a phone or even online.
As for the 2.4 kg SEBO PN. Well that's just the PN weight itself Marcus. No point in considering that alone if the weght of the additional cylinder model behind it OR the Felix isn't taken into consideration as well!
Generally the people who have asked me on the recommendation of an upright bagged vac are looking for something light and easy. And they are not always the "infirm and elderly."
Light and easy usually translates to something like 4 to 5kg, in which the question of a cylinder vac soon arises because there aren't that many uprights that weigh that. Then for carpets, the option of a turbo brush comes in if those buyers concerned can't get past the heavier weight issue of the uprights..
That's the main issue these days where bagged uprights are concerned; there doesn't seem to be that very many of them unless you go down the premium route.
Contrast to the older Dysons is so huge.
Like seriously OCD - I've read patents from Wessel Werk and Dupro, learned about different turbines (e.g. the above electrolux and the TK4 from dupro use a Mitchell Turbine - which is supposed to do better with high flow low head (i.e. more airflow, less pressue), while the wessel werk and TK2 use a Pelton Wheel turbine - which doesn't need as much flow, but extract the energy from the pressure.
