Re: Appliance makers are evil.

On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 01:07:50 -0400, Cape Dweller <usenet@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>Ashikaga wrote:
>
>> Yeah, I think the ones you'd like will probably be around $80. Not very
>> cheap for an equipment that isn't exactly hard to make. For some reason,
>> they just don't make heavy duty stuff for home users.
>
>I think appliance makers have found that lots of people like buying new
>ones every few years anyway, especially people who move around a lot like
>my parents. Personally when I hear someone exclaim in amazement that
>something lasted 10 years I think "that's it? Only 10 years?"

This reminds me. I have a very, very old Hoover canister vacuum
cleaner. I have a hard time finding dirt bags for it. There was
*one* major store left where I could get them, but no more. Luckily
there is a small vacuum repair/sales shop not too far away that has
tons and tons of the bags, filters, belts, whatever. (Plus I got my
newest cordless vac from there about half price on clearance and it
was better than the older one that cost me more.)

Anyway, so I was in there recently buying bags, and I made a comment
to the guy about them being so hard to find and he said no one had
that old vacuum cleaner anymore. And I said I didn't understand why
cause it works great despite how old it is. (I've had it for 10+
years and my parents dumped it on me, and I don't remember how long
they had it.) The guy agreed with me that those old ones were really
good, but he said your average person just thinks if it's old it isn't
any good and they want the newest thing cause they're convinced a new
one is best. Which is bull, as any truly smart person knows :-) --
not only cause age doesn't determine how well it was built to begin
with, but I also find they keep making things cheaper and cheaper
anymore, so new stuff always busts faster.

I was just thinking about this thread yesterday, as I was trying to
use yet another "new and improved" product that didn't work, which was
probably purchased by a "suit" who doesn't actually have to do the
real work and doesn't have a clue, because some salesman convinced
them they had to have the latest and greatest... Sigh.


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