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- From: guido@blink.att.com (Guido Bertocci)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers,misc.consumers.house
- Subject: Re: Kerby Vacuum Cleaners Information
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- Date: 16 Nov 92 14:57:10 GMT
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- cloos@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (James H. Cloos Jr.) writes:
-
- >After reading all this about the Kerby vacs, I thought you all would
- >be interested to know that the dealer (aka salesman), as of Summer'91,
- >made $250 commission on a full price sale of everything except the
- >sander (was $1250, now apparently $1295). Also, each 3 sold in a week
- >gets an additional $200 or so bonus. As you can see, the dealer's
- >cost is about $1000 for the vac+shampooer+Zip-brush. (Also, the
- >dealers usu only get about $50 for a Kerby trade-in, or $5 or $10 for
- >any other trade-in.)
-
- >Now just what the Distributor's price is I'd be very interested to know....
-
- This seems very high. I (stupidly) bought a Kirby with every
- attachment known to man for $400. This including things like the dog polisher,
- carpet shampooer, floor buffer, hand turbo nozzle, extra wands,
- extra bags and extra belts. I didn't have to argue, dicker or
- beat the salesman. A friend and I simply found who the Kirby
- salesman was and called him up and told him that we would each
- buy one for $400 and he said ok. This was about 5 years ago
- and I find it hard to believe that it has gotten that much more expensive.
-