Are You Convinced Dyson Makes Better Vacuum Cleaners?

The king of vacuum cleaners is Kirby, large, heavy, and rebuildable if they break. The sales people used to demo the units by showing how the vacuum could pull dirt completely through a standard carpet, including the backing layer.

But you’re right, Dyson is overpriced, and I’ve often wondered how many people feel compelled to keep polishing the scratches out of the Dyson’s plastic body, as it begins to look like someones science experiment gone awry.

I started using Dyson’s first model in the early to mid-80s and used it for 20 years outdoing any other model brought up against. I now own on of his newer models and no one will be able to convince me that Dyson’s is not the top of the heap. Go ahead and vacuum to your hearts content with your entry and the Dyson will collect an embarrassing amount that somehow got left behind by the pre-vacuum. Convenience, portabililty, adaptability and on and on. Someone may say they have one feature better than Dyson (i.e. suction power); when the jobs done you would think, OK, we did it. Just don’t go back over it with a Dyson if you don’t want to be embarrassed. Many imitations out there that can’t compete. Use a bag cleaner and you’ve lost the moment you turn it on in all performance testing. Lastly, Dyson, never rests on its laurels; it is constantly retooling and better itself each time. Dyson, forever.

Consumer Reports “tore the Dyson a new one.” In the last article that I found at the library, it was a particular model of Sears vacuum that beat it in both performance and price. I’m as techie as the next guy, and love my toys, but I just want a vacuum to get up the dust and dirt. Dealing with it on ‘the back end’ as in having to schlep a dirt cup to a trash can, and the accompanying dust cloud at empty makes no sense to me. I have a Penney’s labeled Eureka that’s twenty years old, and cleaned house enough that a friend trying to sell me a more expensive Kirby couldn’t suck any additional dust behind me.. The others are right. Do your research. Don’t buy a vacuum, that you want for function, and let your decision be influenced by looks or worse, hype.

Too bad you broke your Dyson soon after you purchased it. If you had not, you may have come to a different conclusion. This old lady has been through the brands one by one, and, one by one, they wound up donated to the local thrift store. But my Dyson isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. By the way, you could easily afford to buy a Dyson with the money you save by not buying vacuum bags.

I owned a Eureka Boss, Kenmore, Rainbow, Elextrolux and a Dyson. In the end I loved my Dyson over the other brands.

Perhaps the others were bad models compared to my Dyson?

Perhaps the Boss, Eureka, Elextrolux and Kenmore models I owned were bad lemons?

Perhaps your Boss was a good model or that your needs for the vacumn simply didn’t compare to mine?

Oztech, honestly you should provide a more detailed analysis of the pros and cons on each of the products you compare. (Ie Hepa filter compliant, bag or no bag, cost comparison, partical pick up, allergen test, etc.) This would provide a bit more legitimacy to your article and look less like a cheezy sell out to Eureka or a personal vendetta against Dyson.

I am not cheering on any vacumn as each individual has unique needs, desires and cleanliness/allergen requirements. I am simply stating that more effort should be utilized in comparing/”bashing” products. Everyone is entitled to their opinions, however online journalism needs to take a higher stand than this pathetic article.

PS Did Eureka offer you something for the promo?

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