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Quality is great but not an issue with many buyers . . .
The internet's greatest boon is relatively easy access to useful information -- and facts -- regarding vacuum buying. Sites like www.pricegrabber.com and www.nextag.com help in tracking down best prices. Shopping the internet -- if you can buy and get free shipping can thus far defray or eliminate the cost of sales tax depending upon whom you're buying from.
It's also a great aid to many especially when a purchase bears some urgency. I found this out for myself when tracking down an induction cooker last week. In all of an hour, I got great information at http://theinductionsite.com/, purchased the item of choice at amazon.com for 8 bucks below its usual lowest price offering and -- no shipping charge. And there it was at my door on valentine's Day. I am happy as can be. It works wonderfully.
Interesting thing that I learned was, as they stand to date, there's not a lot of difference in induction cookers as the technological principles are the same. With a few caveats in mind you can find one that will suit your needs at a nice price. I mention this as I discovered the same brand and model can turn up, site to site, at price variations that can run higher than $100 beyond the lowest you find.
Vacuum shopping for economical, worthwhile vacuums can be just as easy. The hard part is knowing whether you're paying in proportion to actual worth or what the market will bear. Not everyone can afford to buy with 20 years down the line in mind and are more than satisfied to buy whatever will work for now.
The internet's greatest boon is relatively easy access to useful information -- and facts -- regarding vacuum buying. Sites like www.pricegrabber.com and www.nextag.com help in tracking down best prices. Shopping the internet -- if you can buy and get free shipping can thus far defray or eliminate the cost of sales tax depending upon whom you're buying from.
It's also a great aid to many especially when a purchase bears some urgency. I found this out for myself when tracking down an induction cooker last week. In all of an hour, I got great information at http://theinductionsite.com/, purchased the item of choice at amazon.com for 8 bucks below its usual lowest price offering and -- no shipping charge. And there it was at my door on valentine's Day. I am happy as can be. It works wonderfully.
Interesting thing that I learned was, as they stand to date, there's not a lot of difference in induction cookers as the technological principles are the same. With a few caveats in mind you can find one that will suit your needs at a nice price. I mention this as I discovered the same brand and model can turn up, site to site, at price variations that can run higher than $100 beyond the lowest you find.
Vacuum shopping for economical, worthwhile vacuums can be just as easy. The hard part is knowing whether you're paying in proportion to actual worth or what the market will bear. Not everyone can afford to buy with 20 years down the line in mind and are more than satisfied to buy whatever will work for now.
To be clear . . .
In the real world, most of the folks I know own only one vacuum - if any. My use of the term "aficianado" refers to those of us who by choice and for whatever reason have several to many vacuums more than really required just to get one house or apartment clean. (One machine you can rely upon to take care of all usual tasks is also a strong indicator of quality when you think about it.)
I've been there and done that and thus am assured my sense of quality and judgment of a useful vacuum are sound. That said, I have also found that despite actual level of quality, there are many of the so-called better machines that many should spare themselves the expense of because it's not likely they'll maintain them properly. All the more reason not to go overboard.
I have gifted top of the line open market vacuums as well as niche brand models I'd bought only to learn they died some pretty ugly deaths -- in short order -- at the hands of people not much interested in maintaining them well. What did "quality" prove there?
Would that it were vacuums were more like the plants I keep -- they live in spite of me.
In the real world, most of the folks I know own only one vacuum - if any. My use of the term "aficianado" refers to those of us who by choice and for whatever reason have several to many vacuums more than really required just to get one house or apartment clean. (One machine you can rely upon to take care of all usual tasks is also a strong indicator of quality when you think about it.)
I've been there and done that and thus am assured my sense of quality and judgment of a useful vacuum are sound. That said, I have also found that despite actual level of quality, there are many of the so-called better machines that many should spare themselves the expense of because it's not likely they'll maintain them properly. All the more reason not to go overboard.
I have gifted top of the line open market vacuums as well as niche brand models I'd bought only to learn they died some pretty ugly deaths -- in short order -- at the hands of people not much interested in maintaining them well. What did "quality" prove there?
Would that it were vacuums were more like the plants I keep -- they live in spite of me.
director12
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What A Relief
Um, how come Euro-Pro kept Fantom as a sideline?
Um, how come Euro-Pro kept Fantom as a sideline?
sebo_fan
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Um, how come Euro-Pro kept Fantom as a sideline?"
Well, if you were a cleaning company who brought Dyson's cyclone technology (merged or whatever) and caused enough publicity, good or bad, wouldn't you want to keep the brand name alive just to pull in would-be-owners/future buyers?
Well, if you were a cleaning company who brought Dyson's cyclone technology (merged or whatever) and caused enough publicity, good or bad, wouldn't you want to keep the brand name alive just to pull in would-be-owners/future buyers?
director12
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I was just saying, how come Euro-Pro focused more on Shark products, and kept Fantom as a sideline?
