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Well, do we?
Most of threw out that stuff years ago and felt far better for it. I wont even look there let alone answer any queiries.
Whats next? irons? kettles? Toasters? ugh dont go there will have nightmares tonight!
Re: Did we really need a floorcare Forum?
In a word, yes, I think so.
There’s a lot of questions posed in the trade forums on floorcare products as is, especially Dyson and I should expect that the public have a few questions as well.
There are still a lot of the guys do vacs as a sideline and even more of them will do that have a shop as it helps pay for it. And, in the end, it doesn’t have to stay there if it doesn’t pick up but, as I’ve proven on several occasions, it often takes a year or more for a forum to actually start getting a decent level of traffic through it.
Also the trend is for rising prices in vacs these days, not lower ones due to the bagless revolution (and as a nice bonus we get to slag them off ;)) and generally more focus on the market due to innovation and clever marketing. Slight difference from the majors in many ways where there’s been practically no innovation at all over the past couple of decades.
As for small appliances, you can sleep easy Mark, there’s no chance. 😉
K.
Re: Did we really need a floorcare Forum?
I suppose it all depends if you have a shop or not. for those that do then a good few sales can be picked up on the back of b.e.r vac repairs.
The other point is that it’s another avenue of help to joe public that doesn’t bother us as much as giving away technical advice on laundry and dishwasher products.
If it can prove to be popular over time we may well even attract a sponor for the forum.
Nothing ventured as they say……….. 😉
Del
Re: Did we really need a floorcare Forum?
I did, of course have a shop until earlier this month and had happily turned away vac repairs for the last 10 years. Any engineers good enough to repair one should have been out doing proper white goods.
Re: Did we really need a floorcare Forum?
Whilst I agree with your sentiments Mark and I also will not read the forum, its only right that we have balance across the forums.
If we only did what we wanted it would hardly have the broad appeal it has…….so horses for courses, please do continue to get involved in your subjects and leave the boring Vacs to the DUST MITES…
KevinRe: Did we really need a floorcare Forum?
Yep, we do need one.
Mark, if you’d been accepting vac repairs over the last 10 years as we have you will have a seen a massive (and I mean MASSIVE) increase in the profit available on them due to the “Dyson syndrome”
We repair them on a regular basis and people are more than happy to pay upwards of £50 for a repair on a cleaner that cost them £250+
Charging £25 labour for something that was brought to us is more than some of the guys are charging for service visits (yes, I know it’s too cheap but they are….)
I also note a distint negativity in many of your posts of late which is unlike you, are you going through the male menopause ? 😆
Dave.
Re: Did we really need a floorcare Forum?
Negative?me?
Having never subscribed to the gloom and doom that sometimes is expressed in this forum I doubt that is the case. Maybe what you are reading into this is just that having not to worry about staff and shop etc, although still working damn hard, I have discovered there is after all more to life than whitegoods.
Not to mention that I now am not sitting infront of a pc all day and therefore may be a bit more selective in posts I respond to.Re: Did we really need a floorcare Forum?
Dave’s poking fun at you Mark. 😉
I think that it could do UKW some good in terms of spares and consumables sales and, as you rightly point out Mark, unless you own a shop it’s of little interest. I to do not do vacs, but I can see the strength in a forum for them on here.
If the troops pick up some extra work from it or some sales, or we do, then great… mission accomplished IMO.
And, anyway, taking some money off Mr Dyson, Lux or Hoover would be very nice thanks. 😉
K.
Re: Did we really need a floorcare Forum?
eastlmark wrote:Negative?me?
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I’m glad to hear you are enjoying your new found freedom Mark 🙂
Dave.
Re: Did we really need a floorcare Forum?
kheath wrote:Whilst I agree with your sentiments Mark and I also will not read the forum, its only right that we have balance across the forums.
If we only did what we wanted it would hardly have the broad appeal it has…….so horses for courses, please do continue to get involved in your subjects and leave the boring Vacs to the DUST MITES…
KevinWho the F”*k are you callin’ a Dust Mite 😯
Del
Re: Did we really need a floorcare Forum?
Just to punish me for my earlier comments, the wifes Dyson cuts out today, holiday monday, and I find myself stripping the damn thing down this afternoon (Instead of being at Notting Hill Gate). Dyson or no Dyson, nothing has really changed, still a pig to take apart, dust sticking to the sweat on my forehead, in my hair, all over my nice clean workbench, plastic bits breaking, the obligatory screw left over, motor not sounding right at all after re-assembly so start all over again….. sudenly I had the thought of a hoover starlight or, even worse, the French made convertable…….nothings changed, £25 or not, i could have done a WMA bearings in the time it took. Whats more, never found a fault anyway so I guess I may well be posting the question. Why does our Dyson DC07 cut out after 10 mins and then re-starts an hour or so later?
Mark (dust mite).
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