I have some new kirby news to share!- exciting!

[brandon_w_t]

News Flash!

One of Kirby's main distributers who works from the factory has been talking with our local dealer, who is a good friend of my friend and I.



First off- NEW FOR 2012!!!!

Starting in January, The SENTRIA will have a COLOR CHANGE. The color has yet to be released by kirby, but thats whats going to be new for it.(he said he was told by kirby to make sure all old sentrias are sold before the new color) Still going to be called the Sentria of course.
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The distributer was in town, and the dealer had shown him the crazy "Avalier patents" that were floating around here. He said he cant confirm anything about the patents being completely correct, but in 2014 kirby is doing a brand new redesign model for the anniversary.


Its still under VERY tight wraps and he cant really disclose any information about it.

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ANd finally. SEARS department store is now SELLING KIRBY SENTRIAS. You can buy one new for about $1750 at their store. Not sure if they keep them in stock. Will be going to sears tomorrow to see.

 

[henry200]

Sears is selling Kirby?  What finally convinced Kirby to move beyond their religious belief in door to door sales?  That's like hearing news that the Pope has become a Methodist!

 

[brandon_w_t]

Who knows. I cant confirm anything. On Sears website you can navigate around and find kirby parts but cant find whole machines.

 

[bagintheback]

I am speechless. Kirby at Sears? I hope it's not true.

However, online Sears does have something called "Sears Marketplace". Maybe a company is selling them used online with the Sears web-site?

 

[pr-21]

There have been

I have seen an abundance of nib Sentria's for sale on ebay and wondered if we might be getting a color change. This seems to happen right before a new model color is introduced. Some say dealer closeout, but some do not. I saw one as low as $500.00 plus, the plus being more toward 600 than 500.


 


Sincerely,


 


Bud Mattingly

 

[logdog]

That is incredible! If i did not hear it here I would NEVER believe it.

 

[williamr1248]

I have some new Kirby news to share...it's exciting

That is exciting! I hope they do something to stop the smell from the bags. I wonder what the new color will be?


Not too sure about selling at Sears...that really takes the name down a few notches. 


Thanks for sharing the news. 

 

[brandon_w_t]

Indeed all.

The dealer told me that kirby is also starting to hoard all the new in box Kirby's off ebay. He said they are buying them up like crazy. And are scolding dealers for selling them online.

 

[vacman33]

Sears online

Looks what is on sears online shopping

http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_02BKIRBY-SENTRIAP?prdNo=13&blockNo=38&blockType=G38

 

[bagintheback]

Sears Link

But look, the link says "Sold by Govacuum". It is NOT sold by Sears, just like I said earlier. How GoVacuum is able to sell a new Kirby is beyond me

 

[floor-a-matic]

If Kirbys are sold at Sears, that'd make my day!

 

[frkirby560]

Kirby Retail Sales

Retail selling is not new for Kirby. From the 1950's back to the beginning Kirby sold their vacuums through vacuum stores as well as door to door. In fact with their first models the model "C" they had a corresponding model "R" that was designed to be sold in retail stores. Later the same model was sold in both venues. I think it was sometime in the late 1960's or 1970's that they began to sell new vacuums only door to door. I do believe that a large retailer like Sears is a new venture; but retail itself had been done before.

 

[redgeminipa]

Got my hopes up...

As noted, the link shows it's sold by GoVacuum, not Sears. Sears Marketplace is similar to Amazon. Many companies can advertise/sell through sears.com.

 

[vac_whisperer]

Very good news indeed. A color change was much needed.


 


But @#$% it!

Kirby is no longer a private deal! Something tells me this will be the end of yet another great company, to some corporate company, just for the cash.

 

[trebor]

The handwriting on the wall...

Distributors make NO MONEY on anything sold by Kirby direct. They should, really, make a spiff on anything sold in their local area, including factory rebuilds. It puts the distributor at odds with the factory. The better deal for the customer is the rebuild, but the better deal for the distributor is a repair done locally.

It does not bode well for the future of Kirby, in my estimation.

Trebor

 

[thissucks]

the problem with kirby being sold in a store (especially not a vac store) is that salesman have very little to work with, they cant inflate the price and they cant deep discount since they would be widely availible and price would almost be set in stone.

factory rebuilds is fine with me being sold in stores.

 

[kirbyclassiciii]

I do not prefer the history of Kirby after they replaced the Legend II with the Generation 3. 1990 and older Kirbys before the G3 are my preference.

~Ben

 

[broomvac]

Ben:

The absolute opposite for myself!

 

[vacfanatic]

I an across this poking around on ebay this morning - wonder if this is the new Sentria color? I don't think the photo is doctored, it looks blue to me...



http://www.ebay.com/itm/Kirby-Sentr...051?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item45fca9ae43