Genuine Hoover Platinum HEPA Q Bag Bundle – 9 Pk for Hoover…

These bags appear to be the Hoover brand and the same quality, October 25, 2012

I ordered these bags anyway even though I had concerns. First concern being the other reviewer had said they were thinner and not the same bags as before. And to preface my second concern, I noticed on my reorder product page for the **8-pk** Hoover brand Q bag bundle that I had ordered in 2011 that it had changed sometime since to that of the generic brand, and it also had many recent complaints from customers for what they perceived to be a bait and switch because they said the picture showed Hoover brand when they ordered (the page has since updated the picture to show the generic) and because the previous glowing reviews for that 8 pk bundle were for the actual Hoover brand bags, not the generic. Very bizarre indeed to switch the product to generic and leave the reviews up that were made for when the product offered was the brand-name bags.
So my second concern with this **9-pk** bundle was that I might end up with generic bags since the picture here only shows the back of the bags and not the front, and of course doesn’t display any kind of packaging that could help me discern either. But since the description says “genuine Hoover” and since the seller for these bags is Amazon, I figured I wasn’t taking that big of a gamble ordering these and could easily send them back if they weren’t, in fact, “genuine.”

I received the bags today and they appear to be the Hoover brand and say so on the bag, also “Distributed by Hoover, Inc” and has the Hoover website printed at the bottom of the bag and an 1-800 number to call for questions; as well as being HEPA, etc. What’s printed on the bags appears to be the same as before.

Unlike the 8-pk bundle I had ordered in 2011, these bags were packaged in Amazons frustration-free packaging (i.e. 9 folded bags, compactly stacked together and wrapped in a plastic bag and placed in a shipping box, rather than being many boxes of the 2-pks Hoover box packaging placed in a shipping box).
After reading up on the info for Frustration-free packaging, for an item like vacuum bags, I actually really appreciate that Amazon has taken this step to work with manufacturers to not burden the consumer with excessive packaging. This 9-pack will take up much less space in my home than the previous 8-pk bundle I had ordered, and I’ll only have one small shipping box to get rid of, rather than having to deal again with 5 boxes to get rid of (the 4 hoover 2-pk boxes + the large box those were shipped in).

The only differences between these bags and previous one’s which I noticed are that print on the front of the bags is a faded-looking blue ink, rather than a dark black ink, but what is printed on the bag appears the same.
The other difference is that these bags do appear thinner, however, after examining them closely and comparing these to my one bag I have left from my previous order, it seems the layers of the bags are exactly the same, but may just not be as “fluffed” up. So I’m unsure if they’re actually thinner, I suspect they may just seem thinner because they were 9 bags very compactly stacked together and probably just flattened out (or remained flat, whichever comes first), as opposed to the bags that had plenty of room to breathe and possibly fluff up (or remain fluffy) in the not-so-compact stack of 2 bags in the roomy Hoover 2-pk boxes.

Taking a star off simply for the needless confusing of customers. I should have been able to just reorder the 8-pk bundle I ordered before (lucky for me I noticed the new picture of the generic when I was about to reorder the 8-pk). And I should not have had to expend as much energy as I did to discern whether the vacuum bags are the Hoover brand Q or not, or if they are lower quality or not. The only reason I’m even writing this review is to help other customers who just want to order their vacuum bags with ease but may be as confused as I was and have the same concerns that I did.

Anyway, I believe these are the actual Hoover brand Q bags, and probably are the same quality as before, exception being possible lower ink quality on the front of the bags, but I don’t care about what ink Hoover uses. If Hoover has changed the Q bags themselves to be lower quality (and I don’t know for certain if they did or not), the difference is so barely discernible that I don’t plan on worrying myself any further about it. As I said, the layers appear the same, but I suspect they’re just flattened due to how they’re packaged in Amazon’s frustration-free packaging.

Hope this helps.

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