Buy a Dyson at your peril

[Ian Stirling]

It seemed to me to be likely to cause more wear and tear than the conventional sort.

[philip cosson]

The dyson (animal) has so many ways of accessing the pipe - it's really easy to free any blockage. We have had a DC01 for 6-7 years and renovated 3 houses with buildin rubble etc. The motor did burn out - but we replaced it. The hose also broke - agail replaced. It is now in the loft ready to do battle with the loft extetion building work. We replaced it with the dyson animal, great cleaner but very noisy. Also the hose split within 4 months - but who can complain when they sent out a replacement in 48 hours free of charge with only one phone call?

on balance - i'm still a dyson fan. (Going round in circles?)

Philip

[Dave Plowman]

That's the last thing I'd ever describe Which as being - regardless if you like their results or not.

[Conrad Edwards]

Who would buy a Dyson washing machine when you can get Miele or Siemens for half the price?

[RichardS]

Fashion victims.....

IMHO Dyson's genius lies not in his invention or implementation, but in marketing. He created a cleaner that would appeal to men (you can see all the bits moving inside it), and they exerted their influence on a buying decision that otherwise they'd not have been interested in. Add to that an exorbitant price tag and you have assurance that it must be the best and the decision must be right...

I reckon the washing machine's the same thing.

-- Richard Sampson

email me at richard at olifant d-ot co do-t uk

[Bob Eager]

Reminds me of the Haynes 'Baby' manual. Men who wouldn't be seen dead buying a baby book are happy to buy a Haynes manual!

[Bob Mannix]

A cursory glance at one of the "best price" sites gives:

Cheapest Dyson £750 most expensive £975 Cheapest Miele £586 most expensive £1219

Now I don't know what the Dyson is like (or the Miele) as I have a Bosch, and it's not an exhaustive survey, but the claim the Miels is half the Dyson price doesn't really seem to hold water.

[Tony Bryer]

Older UMRATs will remember the Amstrad [probably not]Hi-Fi's of around 1970 which had loads of technical-sounding knobs to twiddle, which I now realise probably did nothing - though I was hugely impressed at the time. After all the Rolling Stones wouldn't sound right unless you could fine-tune the equimodal trilaterial bias enhancement would it?

[IMM]

He also created a cleaner that also actually does what he says it does. Full suction at all times. Also no expensive bags to buy. When I first bought the Dyson, the first vacuum listed an amazing amount of dirt, that the older bag cleaner could not.

At the same time Quad made the simplest looking amplifier with a few knobs that sounded the business. Expensive, designer style of the time, but v good. Had one meeself.

[Bob Eager]

You referring the the brown and orange 33/303?

HAVE one meself...

[Paul Mc Cann]

I-SWMBO-E the Miele would work out considerably cheaper than the Dyson=20 over the long haul. Besides, the point about buying the Miele is that=20 they are trouble free. She's on her second one in about 17 years and=20 sold the first one for a good price when she decided to change it.

(See, women can get affected by Tool-itis also)

Paul Mc Cann

[geoff]

In message , Bob Mannix writes

But hopefully, the washing machine does

[Dave Plowman]

Presumably with a full bag given that you found them too expensive to change?

The 33/303? Distinctly lacking in inputs - even in its day. They had to do a bodge to accommodate just one extra mono input.

[Pet]

LOL. I have had a DC02 for about 7 years and it's still rocking along. In light of this we just bought an upright "root Cyclone" Animal thingy... ANyway, to cut a long storey short, first vacuum virtually filled the new Dyson (dust that our old DC02 seemedly left behind) and we are both convinced dyson must have some powder coating on the inside of all tubes that is relaesed on first use to give the impression of superior cleaning.

[S Viemeister]

The first time I used my DC01, on an apparently clean, recently vacuumed carpet, it filled up before I got halfway across the room - not with powder from the inside, but with dog hair and fluff. The DC01 is still going strong, after more than 6 years.

[Dave Plowman]

And I thought I was cynical. Congratulations. ;-)

[Craig Graham]

I hear the Dyson Saniflow is in development.

[IMM]

No. The beige coloured one before that. Forget the number.

[usenet]

I think this happens with virtually *any* new vacuum cleaner, it's just rather obvious with a Dyson.

[S Viemeister]

Perhaps - but I've had a number of vacs over the years, including a Dyson knock-off - the Dyson was the only one I noticed this with.