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Thread Number: 76781
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
How To Sell Kelvinator Laundry Appliances. |
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Post# 1006427 9/7/2018 at 21:21 (2,047 days old) by Launderess  (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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| Post# 1006429 , Reply# 1 9/7/2018 at 21:40 (2,047 days old) by IowaBear (Cedar Rapids, IA) | ||
 I like the way he says (kinda hopefully) "You're not going to wear that wet t-shirt, are you?"
At one point he says "while it would be ideal to have a fully functioning unit on the demo floor that is not always possible." I don't believe I have ever seen a washer actually hooked up to water and drain on a sales floor.
Was that common in the old days when there were fewer models and washers were very expensive? | ||
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Post# 1006432 , Reply# 2 9/7/2018 at 22:03 (2,047 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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For All That Blather About Turnover
One sees very little of it in that demonstration.
Those Kelvinator washers must have beat things to death. Notice however Mr. Smooth Demonstrator takes pains not to use gender pronouns unless absolutely necessary. Instead of using "her", "she", "housewife", etc.. the man goes with "user", "prospect" or whatever most of the time. Clever | ||
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Post# 1006460 , Reply# 3 9/8/2018 at 08:24 (2,046 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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Live Demonstrations Of New Washers and Dryers It used to be fairly common in the 50s through the 70s to have at least a few machines fully hooked and operational.
Sears and Montgomery Wards almost always had machines hooked up so they could demonstrate the operation etc.
When I first worked at the Maytag Home Appliance store in Lanham Md. in 1974 we always had a TOL MT pair hooked up, it was always a 906 pair till they were discontinued and then an 806 pair.
John L. | ||
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Post# 1008142 , Reply# 5 9/22/2018 at 06:36 (2,033 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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If you’ve seen at least today’s Pic of the Day (9/22/2018) you’ll see/interpret all this as “don’t”...
The brand just got out of step and even irrelevant, given the “newer” washer demands that you just couldn’t get from Corporate Stablemates of those WCI “underdogs”... Heck, you could even go with a Norge/Admiral/Wards machine and get something different, or at least in that territory, “better”... That’s just only things like the lint filter, better (though still harsher) washing ability, and perhaps a still-solidarity of quality (though still laiden with planned-obsolescence and reliability, compared to the more “dependable” (Hint, hint, hint!) leading brands, in what you BUY a washer for, as it remaining your house, year, after year, after year, albeit being “something electric, which is “anything” electric, that uses water, just more completely trouble-prone... Simply put, where all this glitz and glamor of what this ad and whatever types of “selling” like this for the other WCI-stablemates are... — Dave | ||
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Post# 1008156 , Reply# 6 9/22/2018 at 08:49 (2,032 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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Good old Sears usually had a washer filled with water demonstrating agitation with a bunch of colorful, floating plastic balls getting sucked under by the powerful belt-driven/Super Roto-Swirl water currents.
I usually hung around to see how things would play out when the machine started to drain all over the showroom floor, but they must have jimmied the timer somehow, LOL. | ||
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Post# 1008170 , Reply# 7 9/22/2018 at 11:22 (2,032 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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Post# 1008177 , Reply# 8 9/22/2018 at 11:50 (2,032 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine) |
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Post# 1008374 , Reply# 9 9/24/2018 at 01:58 (2,031 days old) by askolover (South of Nash Vegas, TN) |
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Post# 1008415 , Reply# 10 9/24/2018 at 15:58 (2,030 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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In store demo 
I was 10-11 when the Dual Action Agitator was introduced and remember the first time I saw it at Sears. There was a nice, older salesman that gave me a demo. He rolled a bunch of towels into a ball, tucked in the loose ends and dropped it in the tub. He explained that the corkscrew top of the agitator would untie and unroll the ball - and it did. Cheesy demo, but nice of him to do it for a kid that clearly wouldn't have a Sears credit card until many years later.
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