My housemate has owned a vacuum cleaner store for like 30 years, he sells vacuums and fixes them. I work there part time. It's a little discouraging to see that most of the best known brands are now either owned by Chinese companies, or are being manufactured in China. Not that everything coming from China is garbage (although a lot of it is) the main thing is that most of them have no parts available to fix them, so within a year or two they end up in the landfill.
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@nonayadambidnes Planned obsolescence. Gone are the days of things made that last.
@FinnegansWhacked One of the problems is that companies are moving their manufacturing to China or other countries where there's cheap labor, and they use cheaper material so that they can make them inexpensive enough that places like Walmart will take them.
Instead of selling 100 of them at $1000 each, they're able to sell a million at $20 each.
Win/win for everyone except the consumer. 😕