That Merry Maids Hoover Elite looks quite nice. Thanks for the photo PanVac! As for that thing being a prop, that doesn't really make sense. I know it's a common practice for retail stores to have "display only" vacs that are basically just the NPCUs of the vacuum industry, but I can't see why Oreck would do it in this case. My theory is that some BWs did buy them, but they got trashed over the years from use. I don't have anything to back this up, so it's just a theory (insert MatPat reference here). Finally, this machine isn't as coveted for me as something like a 2009 DD Breeze with a red handle, due to how rare these things must be. There's just machines that I don't put much thought into getting because my chances are so low. That's not to say if one were for sale and was in good enough shape that I would not try to get it (that's how I got my Hoover Dual V), it's just that those things are exceedingly rare, so it's pretty fruitless to get excited at the prospect of obtaining one.
