Miele Art...........
EVAN!!!!
Great deal on that Art. Like it was stated above, that was the worlds most expensive electric broom.
Personally I'm really not a fan, but that's becasue I had to sell those darned things the first time around. And they weren't popular in our market at all. I had never in my sales career had to "gravle" before to sell a vacuum cleaner. The whole sales force litterally had to BEG people to buy them.
Nobody wanted it the Art for many reasons. It was like the Edsel of the vacuum world. IT was initially hailed as a wonder
machine, sold poorly from the start and was gone in a few years.
Miele really blundered here marketing wise, becasue they tried to see it as an uprighty do-all please-all kinda thing, jack of all trades, master of none...you get the point here.... It failed with our customers over the tiny bag, no brushroller option and mediocre suction compared to their canisters. And it was pricey as stated for both the machine and the little bags. IIRC, the RedRose edition was the most expensive selling at around $449.99-459.99.
Also, they had a tendancy to break often, and sooner than ANY Miele should have. The usual culprits were : A tendancy to break in the swively neck area, which would snap the handle clean off. The bags would pop off from their poor mounting bezels, and clog up the filters and ruin motors, and the cordreels had continuity problems. It happened enough where I was on first name and freindly basis with our repair rep.
We ended up promoing, or giving away as prizes the remaining stock of cleaners that we had after Miele threw the switch to put the things out of their misery.. The last one I ever sold was a HOT Chocolate model seen above with a full size Red Velvet canister like most seemed to have done for $150.00 extra. December 2007
I sum up the Art's short sad run with this:
The Art, is cute like trying to sell lemonade aside the road. You want to stop, but something always tells you not to. Call it instinct, call it pessimism. The Art, just rubbed people wrong..bar none.
BUT.....
There was another side of the coin. We did sell to a few who swore by them. They are still mad that Miele discontinued them with out their input or forewarning. We sold multiple machines to them so they wil be set for a VERY long time. There was always one or two floating qaround somewhere unsold.
These persons above were NOT in the majority.
Chad
Ann Arbor Michigan
(P.S. Post Statement)- Evan keep that nice, as like a Westinghouse Converto Vac, a Air-Way Dirtmaster, or an early Regina Housekeeper, that machine may well be worth something someday as a vacuum lemony blunder type of thing. Good intentions, with poor results kind of situation....
I in no way care to argue with anyone over the pro's and con's of the product I've discussed above. I have my opinion of the Art set, and always will.
You may have an opinion that differs entirely from mine. If that's the case, you can simply disreguard or ignore which usually is the case; what I have written above, and move on. No need to create a war over something like a Miele Art.
