Okay When New(er):
Brandon:
Kenmore is Sears, and they make a vacuum that's very nice when it is new, or fairly new. The only trouble is that Sears has gotten very aggressive with discontinuing parts; this makes it harder for people to repair old stuff, and encourages the sale of new stuff. From their standpoint, it's good business. From a consumer standpoint, it's very frustrating to find that a part for a fairly recent machine is NLA. A few years ago, I had to throw out a ten-year-old Kenmore canister because the hose was NLA. That's too soon, in my opinion; a higher-end vacuum should be repairable for longer than that.
For the price you're being charged, go ahead and get it; you'll probably get a lot more than $60 worth of use from it before it goes kaflooey. But I personally would not want to buy another new Sears vac, because I wouldn't want to have the experience I just described again. I could clearly remember buying the vac, and the money I shelled out for it, and there I was throwing it away over one part that I couldn't get.
