On 29/08/2012 18:41, Richard Russell wrote:
The nay-sayers seem to fall into two groups: those who say Dysons are
unreliable and those who say they don't work very well (there's a
third group who can't manage to say anything intelligent at all, but
hey this is Usenet!).

The forth group is those who say they are both unreliable and don't pick
up very well either.

As far as unreliability is concerned I haven't personally found that
to be the case, but I accept that a sample of size of 4 is far too
small to conclude anything meaningful. I am happy to believe the
verdict of Which that they are neither particularly reliable nor
particularly unreliable (with some evidence that things have improved
in the last few years).

A guy I know runs a large vacuum cleaner repair centre on the south
coast. At any given time he has a room full of dead Die Soons. He
loves them, the repairs pay for his 3 holidays a year.

However as far as performance is concerned my personal experience (and
that of most other Dyson users I'm sure) *is* relevant, and that is
that they work very well. They also score highly with me for ease of
emptying, weight and manoevrability (at least the models we have). I
am mystified that some people are claiming that they "don't pick up";
that is totally at variance with the Which test reports which
typically describe Dysons as 'excellent', 'superb' or 'outstanding'.

I've spent most of my working life selling cleaning machines & have
experience of every type of vacuum you could imagine - and some you
couldn't. Based on that experience Die Soons don't pick up very well at
all.




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Dave - The Medway Handyman www.medwayhandyman.co.uk