$2400 for a vacuum cleaner ? Or as Kirby calls it...a "home cleaning system".Would you pay even $800 for it ? This is what a Kirby salesman offered it to us for.I passed on it.
2006-11-24 11:02:47 · 13 answers · asked by Sneezy 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Cleaning & Laundry
I might pay $800, if it was a VERY high-quality machine that would also shampoo my carpet. But for $2400, it had better come with an intelligent robot to push it for me!
2006-11-24 11:07:23 · answer #1 · answered by Tigger 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Check out Consumers Reports online and look at their ratings. It may cost a small fee to join and view the listings but worth it. I have a Sears vacuum and it has been good and was reasonably priced. But my sister has a Miele which is still less expensive than the Kirby and an awesome quiet vacuum. I wish I had paid the extra dollars and gotten one of these.
I had a housekeeping business years ago and I sat down on the floor and cried the first time I need to use a Kirby because I could not change the parts to it easily and was on a time budget. And it was so very very heavy I was exhausted when I did use it.
Yes they are good vacuums, but I feel you could get something better for less. Also the Oreck vacuum my Mother in law bought was not really a great deal for the money.
2006-11-24 13:39:44 · answer #2 · answered by whitsonn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kirby has somehow been successful with this strategy. I will say that people I know who bought a Kirby had them last almost forever. My $200-$300 vacuums lasted about 3-5 years. Still, to add up to $2400 that is a bunch of years.
2006-11-24 11:09:14 · answer #3 · answered by nanlwart 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i used to work for kirby. you should have pounced on the 800. those suckers do everything. plus the carpet cleaner that it's equipped with brought grease paint out of a carpet one time. the woman was so impressed she bought it on the spot. they had tried everything before i washed her carpet with it. seriously i don't work for them anymore (and never would again those people work up to 16 hours a day with a lunch break if they're lucky) anyway you should have totally pounced on the 800
2006-11-26 12:16:53 · answer #4 · answered by butter_cream1981 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no a dyson is 500 and it better than a kirby, some dysons are 300. There is a reason they go door to door, noone buys them, they are to expensive and over priced. Stay away from them.
2006-11-24 12:00:06 · answer #5 · answered by mike67333 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, but my vacuum is an electrulux on its last leg that I no longer get bags by the case for. It was purchased approximately 22 years ago.
2006-11-24 15:02:03 · answer #6 · answered by Michelle G 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No my mother had one she paid about that much for it but it wasnt worth that much money! It was really heavy and after a couple of months it was no better than a 200$ vacuum.
2006-11-24 11:19:00 · answer #7 · answered by Babe in Christ 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
$2,400! Um NO!
It doesn't even cost that to install a central vac unit.
I probally wouldn't spend over 300 for vacuum.
(I have central)
While we are on the subject of overpriced vac's my mother bought a "Rainbow Vac" and she and my sister said it was junk. She was frugal so I was shocked that it cost $2,000!
I would check out Comumer Report, it costs online.($26 year, $6 month) or you can go to the library.
2006-11-24 14:16:05 · answer #8 · answered by nonethanks 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Keep passing it up...go to Sears and check out what they have instead. You can buy a Dyson for about $300 - $400 if you want a really good vac...
2006-11-24 11:10:39 · answer #9 · answered by Nginr 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gee - my $65.00 vacuum cleaner does a pretty good job.
2006-11-24 11:06:20 · answer #10 · answered by execglenn 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋