Look What I Managed To Get My Hands On!!

[alexhoovers94]

Hi everyone, I thought I would show you what I managed to snatch up on eBay...Some Hoover Senior tools!
I spotted them and thought, I would really love those, then I saw that they were from Manchester, I thought, if I messaged the seller offering them a tenner for them (as they were only listed for £3.95) he might accept my offer, as I really did NOT want to wait for 6 days for the listing to end. Since they were very close to me, I could collect them...Sure enough, the seller said "sure, I will accept your offer of £10" so, here were are, they are safe in my hands now!

Considering I only paid a tenner for them and it is complete with it's box, which is in Excellent condition, so in my opinion, that is a steal!

Here they are, next to my 652A, they have had a wash as the hose was very dirty, which is to be expected as it is a grey/white colour and over 30 years old, most likely.

I did have a go of them and the suction is appalling, which I expected, it is lightyears stronger on the Junior tools!! But I got them for authentisity, really, well, it is ok for dusting or going around the edges, but for cleaning the stairs of using the two extension wands and floor tool for vacuuming hard floors, well, that is the joke! Just forget it!!

Anyway, here they are next to my Senior...

[this post was last edited: 9/22/2013-18:06]

 

[alexhoovers94]

And...

Here they are attached.

 

[vintagerepairer]

I bet Ebay are in love with the seller for doing that. Anyway, as I have suggested before, I am truly lost as to why Hoover did not introduce a pan-convertor style hose for the Senior cleaners, long before they eventually did. Both Hotpoint and Electrolux were using such devices in the late 1960's and maybe even before then. Having said that, given the vast number of Senior cleaners of all varieties which are still readily available to this day, the poor performance on the tools clearly did not restrict sales of said cleaner.

The Senior was certainly marketed as a carpet-cleaning machine above all else. Indeed in the 1980's Hoover referred to it as "The Big Sweep".

 

[beko1987]

I accept outside of ebay transactions all the time, cuts out all the fees.

Lovely machine! There was an identical senior of ebay with all its tools recently, Had my eye on it as the selelr said they would post, even though the listing said they wouldnt,and it went for over £50, out of the league I had money for!

 

[seamusuk]

Well the seller lost out on those then.....

From memory the last set went for £30 odd and I was going to bid £20....
But hey it's his choice...
Seamus

 

[alexhoovers94]

Sorry.[this post was last edited: 9/23/2013-15:32]

 

[vintagerepairer]

Sorry

Alex, you have nothing to be sorry for. It is the seller who is in the wrong. As it has been explained to me, they are obliged to report any offers made to them outside of the auction. This seller chose not to. As has been proven now, that seller lost out financially as a result of their greed & wanting to avoid paying auction costs.