"Graham Saad" wrote:

|Best vacuum I've ever owned by the length of the straight, at least so far
|as carpet was concerned. However, the wheels scuff up the timber floors
|quite badly.

Duct tape the wheels....

|"Stephen X. Carter" ] wrote in message
|news:43166d2c.9661653@localhost...
| On , "Percival P. Cassidy" wrote:
|
|On 08/31/05 11:47 am EXT tossed the following ingredients into the
|ever-growing pot of cybersoup:
|
|snip
|
|Don't let advertising and price fool you, as a $59.00 Eureka will do
|exactly what a $500.00 Dyson does. Good Luck in your search.
|
| DYSON -- isn't that the one that uses 100,000 the force of gravity! That
| means that the centrifugal force will make one gram of dirt weigh the
| equivalent of 100,000 times heavier or 100 kilograms or 220 pounds -- an
| excellent example of gross exaggeration in advertising. If I cannot
| believe
| this statement what makes them think that I will believe an other
| statements
| they make.
|
|I'm not seeing any such claim on their Web site.
|
|Dyson's technology was good enough that, after dissing it, Hoover copied
|it and lost a patent infringement suit. I was in UK the day the
|newspapers reported the court's decision.
|
|We love our DC07.
|
| We love ours.
|
| As for the original poster worried about scratching floors..... you can
| turn off the brushes. That's what I do on our wooden floors.
|
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| steve.hat.stephencarter.not.com.but.net
| Nothing is Beatle Proof!!
|

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