Oreck had the opportunity to fill orders from Target and Costco for the Magnesium, and yes, they have become "Whorecks"...love that nickname Trebor. We have seven stores in my area and have sold quite a few, but all of us try to be quite selective when demoing/selling. The Forever Gold is my personal favorite, but if it's an older person, or a single in a one bedroom condo, the Magnesium will work for them. Another scenario is if they have frieze carpet, works really well and was designed to answer frieze issues with the other models. Every vacuum has a niche for individual situations, and I feel for the family who picks one up from a big box store, especially if they have kids and pets and expect it to work wonders. Guess when they break down, they'll THEN find the Oreck store to do the warranty work, ugh. There's another model coming out soon that has the switch in the handle and a swivel fan housing like the Pilot. There are no refurb Magnesiums available anywhere to our district manager's knowledge. One thing about Oreck, when it's a refurb, it's clearly stated on the manufacturing label. We only keep three or four Magnesiums in stock per store, and order weekly anyway if we need more, but the Gold is our biggest seller. I just hope we keep the models made in Tennessee, my biggest fear is being bought out by an overseas company and lose the manufacturing plant here, and the same thing happen to us that happened to Hoovers once TTI took over. I shudder at the thought.
