SAVE ON VACUUMS
August 31st 2010 13:43
Before you pay full-blown retail prices for a new vacuum cleaner,
consider your options. Vacuums take quite a bit of abuse over
their limited lifetimes---banging into furniture, clogging and simply
being dragged around from room to room.
The first step I recommend vacuum customers do is research
the test results at Consumer Reports magazine. The publication
offers unbiased by advertising, scientific test results on each model
they test. Their last vacuum test can be found in the October
2009 issue of the magazine.
Once you've narrowed down a make and model of interest, do the
traditional shop around routine to get a ballpark price range. And
don't forget online outlets.
However, to really save big: visit your local Sears repair/parts center.
Many of them offer barely used "reconditioned" models for at half the
retail price or less!
Yesterday, I dropped off my vacuum for repairs. The repair guy
told me they were running a special on upright vacuums at one
quarter of the retail price!
They had been used perhaps once or twice and then returned. Since
they couldn't be sold "as new," it was the repair center's job to move
them out the door as soon as possible.
The guy also told me buying an extended warranty on a vacuum is the
only extended warranty worth buying because the average homeowner
vacuum usually needs repair at least once during its lifetime.
That's for sure.
consider your options. Vacuums take quite a bit of abuse over
their limited lifetimes---banging into furniture, clogging and simply
being dragged around from room to room.
The first step I recommend vacuum customers do is research
the test results at Consumer Reports magazine. The publication
offers unbiased by advertising, scientific test results on each model
they test. Their last vacuum test can be found in the October
2009 issue of the magazine.
Once you've narrowed down a make and model of interest, do the
don't forget online outlets.
However, to really save big: visit your local Sears repair/parts center.
Many of them offer barely used "reconditioned" models for at half the
retail price or less!
Yesterday, I dropped off my vacuum for repairs. The repair guy
told me they were running a special on upright vacuums at one
quarter of the retail price!
They had been used perhaps once or twice and then returned. Since
they couldn't be sold "as new," it was the repair center's job to move
them out the door as soon as possible.
The guy also told me buying an extended warranty on a vacuum is the
only extended warranty worth buying because the average homeowner
vacuum usually needs repair at least once during its lifetime.
That's for sure.
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