OK, let’s go ahead and get this shirt out of the way:
Dyson, the expensive vacuum cleaner company, now also offers bladeless fans. Tiny vent openings, and a surface that creates lift, and here you go. Pretty weird, huh? Read more about it here.
Now the 10″ fan—at the bottom of the line—is $299.99. Wow. I think if I picked up one of these, it would instantly quadruple or quintuple all of the money I’ve ever spent on fans in my entire life.
How disappointed have I ever been in a cheap fan? Disappointed enough to spend 20 to 30 times its cost on this? We own, and are pleased with, a Dyson vacuum. I doubt that would have been the case had the price difference between it and a “lesser” variety been this severe. It would have meant the vacuum would have been $4,000 or so.
The fan is cool-looking. I guess I could see a Bang & Olufsen kind of guy pouncing on it.
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I need to get one of these fans!!! They are awesome!!
Tommy: Yeah, right. You won’t spend $12 on a fucking entrée.
We were all set to get a Dyson UNTIL we talked with the guy at the local sew-vac store. He charges a minimum $95 to service those bad boys – regardless of why it’s in there – because they’re such a PITA to take apart and reassemble. When we asked him how often they had to be serviced, he said that since they went into multiple models and mass marketing, it’s just as often as the Hoovers and Bissells. I wish you luck with yours!
From what I’ve read before then and since, I think Dyson’s talent isn’t so much cutting-edge technology as it is reinventing the advertising and marketing of it.
kemtee: We’ve been happy. I want to say ours is six? years old. (It’s part of the first family of vacs they produced; not the ball deals.) Those might be more problematic to disassemble, because one of my favorite characteristics of ours is that it’s easy to get into and back out of.
I think I wanted ten years out of it when we bought it, so more than halfway there. 🙂
There was a huge difference in the performance of my old vaccuum and the Dyson. Even if I have to pay extra to get it fixed, having a vaccum that works worth a shit is so worth every penny. I wouldn’t trade it.
I think that it’s one of the older models is the key there.
@Lea: Amen, sister. There are few things on this earth that irk me as much as a vacuum cleaner that refuses to do what it was made to do.