Seems the generation...
That grew up with the convertible era vacs that rarely broke & were maintained by their parents & or the local vac shop lack the knowledge or skills to service a vac. And, since they bought it at Amazon or Target etc. for little money vac shops for repairs are not even a thought. The thought is, 'it must be junk i paid so little', so to the curb it goes.
I bought some vacuum bags for my Riccar 8lbs vac from a young couple who threw out their same model vac as it wasn't working right, but they thought to sell the bags on craigslist! turns out the vac was a hand-me-down from their folks. I informed them i would have paid many times as much for the broken vac than the remaining bags... the news came as a surprise.
I used the Bissell not to knock cheap vacs, as a matter of fact the point is one seems to get too much for their money given the basic economics of it all. I actually started posting on this site with a thread that discussed the "best value vac out there" & i mentioned the Bissell at Walmart. Do a search & you will see a lot of discussion of this model vac on vacuumland.
Some people, for what ever reason, don't take care of their vacuums but rather beat the tar out of them. Even a cleaning service sold me a sweet commercial Tenant (Lindhaus?) dual motor vac that only needed a brushroll. They gave me all the bags too so i think it was the only one like it they had & decided to stay with something simpler. The brush roll is specially made to be replaced without tools! Most any vac in decent condition, properly adjusted, used as intended, will do a good enough job for the average joes & josephines out there.
We split hairs on details & preferences here on this site, minutia in the scheme of things for most vac users. Don't get me wrong, i love it & appreciate the vast array of opinions, theories etc.offered up & am right there with my own too, clearly.
