Anybody got any feedback/personal experience with one? Is all the publicity hype or is it really a kickass vacuum? My obsessive complusiveness is in my vacuuming (do it almost daily), so why not spring for a decent vac...

 

FWIW.... Consumer reports hated it. Said you can do much bettet with a high end Hoover for half the price.

My brother inlaw has one. Hasn't complained... But shit... $400+ for a vacuum? It better suck my dick too...

 

it actually is dope as hell...we have the purple one and it dominates teh dirt

i think consumer reports just didnt like the fact that it costs so damn much

 

I used it once....really liked it

 

i remeber a few years back... a vaccum sales person went to our hous to sell us a Kirby.. she practically cleaned the whole goddamn house...

my parents and us were such stupid fucks we bought one of those for like $1000.... the funniest part is we only had one room with a carpet

sorry for hijacking

 

A have friends who swear by theirs.

 

We got sucked in by the hype on Dyson's previous product, marketed in the mid-1990s in North America under the brand name Fantom. Our Fantom Fury Thunder (dual cyclonic, etc...) really was a very mediocre vacuum. Sure, it had HEPA filtering and no bag, but it also didn't vacuum well and was difficult to repair when it broke within a couple years.

We bought a new vacuum this summer, and after a lot of research we went with a Miele canister vacuum. These little dudes have excellent suction, are lightweight, and are supposed to last and last and last. So far, we've been very happy with it.

 

Are those the ones with the commercials with the guy that has a heavy accent?

Those look kick ass.

 

I bought the Dyson and love it. I had a Kirby salesman come over and demo'd it in our Family Room claiming it would pick up more dirt after any vacuum out there. After he finished I brought out the Dyson and vaccummed even more stuff that his Kirby didn't pick up. Needless to say he didn't make a sale.

 

i bought a bissel bagless for $90 at wally world, let me tell you, it really cleans well and i would recommend it. it even picks up the little dust/dirt and takes dog hair like a champ

 

I love the Oreck.

 

Go to a vacuum store and get a real vac. Search for my long winded reply about this from a few months back (in the TL Ramblings). I ended up with a Simplicity upright.
http://www.simplicityvac.com/

 

My oldman picked one up for $300......they had some $100 off deal going (not sure where).

Thinks its the best thing ever.

 

love it

 

OK. My gf and a really good friend in CA are anal when it comes to cleaning/vacuuming. Both use the Hoover Windtunnel self propelled with a bag. Nice thing with this is it cleans great, the hose for dusting/cleaning nooks just pulls out so you can vacuum and it has a powered handheld attachment. Get the one with the red/green light indicator. Lowes has it at $278 and find a 10% coupon (they are everywhere).

Don't buy from Costco. I bought one but I think it was a very old model as it did not have the red/green light indicators.

 

Don't believe consumer reports, they are usually messed up.

The vacuum is a great design, however I would wait until it's a bit cheaper.

 

Oreck XL, High end eurekas, what do you guys vaccum shop at target and expect to get something good?

 

My brother has one, it's pimp. However my mom has convinced me to be a big fan of old school vacuums, they are very sturdy and last forever. I bought mine from a vacuum repair place, it was built in the 70's. The guys at these stores swear by the old shit, they say the new ones do nothing but break.

 

Very true, and why I went with the Miele. In talking to a number of vacuum guys, this is one of the few modern brands that continue have a very high level of reliability.

Old Kirbys and Hoovers are great, but they've been reworked for the worse in the last couple decades and the modern ones are now poor shadows of their past.

I've owned enough vacuums to realize that they all do a reasonable job cleaning when they are new. The question really is for long term consistency and reliability.

Most of the local vacuum guys also will through in free maintenance if you buy through them. The guy we ended up buying from matched the best internet pricing we found and kicked in a few extras plus the maintenance.

 

We have the purple one for animals, and my wife loves it. It really is a great vacuum!

 

i love my Animal. it beats the crap out of my 3 year old oreck and my friends kerby

 

We have the Dyson Animal. Best vac. I have ever owned. I would def buy another one.
We bought it from Costco for 439.00... (499.00 everywhere else)

 

Egg, you know you can return any item from Costco at anytime for any reason, no questions, right?

 

$400 is too rich for my blood. My house has a central vac ...

 

Oxy-moron?

 

Yup! Thanks. First one from Costco was an older model without the red/green light indicator which I wanted. So I packed it back up and took it back to Costco (no questions asked).

Then went to Lowes for their Hoover Windtunnel.

 

My parents are here visiting for a week or so. They wanted to buy us some stuff for Christmas and our new house, and we happened to mention that our vacuum went kaput on us. So they went out and bought us a Dyson Animal vac... couldn't believe it.
I'm anxious to try it out though to see what it can do. We get a lot of cat hair in the carpet that the old vacuum did a piss poor job of taking out, and usually ended up getting pulled up into our carpet steam vac... which I then had to thoroughly clean after (wet hair.... yuck).

 

well, technically.....

 

so we gave in and bought a Dyson....most unbelievable thing ever......i thought my old vacuum rocked...you would not BELIEVE the stuff the dyson picked up!

 

Cool, and it should be pretty easy to get the puppy out of the canister...

 

We like ours. Bought it from Amazon a few years ago... it was on sale but I forget exactly how much it was.

 

I just got the animal version of the Ball model. It sure does pick up more dirt than the one it's replacing, but I can't tell if it's 400 bucks "better" than the old.

Oh, it's heavy as hell!

 

Uses a lot of power, too. I tripped a circuit breaker the first time I used it, with our TV and Christmas tree on.

 

this is from 2004?????????????????


the 2 most anal women I know in cleaning use the Hoover Wind Tunnel (make sure it has the filter).

I have it too.

 

My family has a central vac at our house. For my dorm I have a little portiable one.

 

Sorry CL, but that comment made me laugh my ass off!

Terry

 

Best vacuum I've ever used has been a Miele

 

have a dyson-very good. also had a kirby salesman trying to sell but he cleaned our carpets even tho he knew we would not buy one. (talk about expensive)

 

The Dyson Ball one looks awesome. They're just way too overpriced..

 

We have the purple animal Dyson and I don't know whether I am more amazed or disgusted. Amazed at the amount of dog hair it picks up and disgusted by how much dog hair is in my carpet..........