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Geek Culture / NEVER buy a vacuum cleaner with a "special filter"!

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TheComet
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Posted: 30th Jul 2009 17:42 Edited at: 30th Jul 2009 17:46
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Yes, buy this new edition to the vacuum cleaner technology! A hoover model TC3092!! (The number is random, I forgot it). The new filter allows the dust to collect in a capsule that can easily be detached from the vacuum cleaner and emptied into the bin! Now you don't need any more vacuum cleaner bags! Easy to use, easy to clean. The new hoover model TC3092, buy it now and buy a second one for only half the price!! An amazing offer!!! Blablablablablablablaaaaa!!!


And here is a screen shot of the "special filter":

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh100/TheComet92/HPIM3793.jpg


What a bunch of CRAP! Most of the above is not even true! Let me tell you what my feedback is:


The capsule is WAY too small. It fills up in less than 10 minutes of vacuum cleaning. It is really annoying to empty, and when you empty it, the lid at the bottom doesn't swing open properly and swings all of the dust you just vacuumed out onto the floor and around the room, creating a huge dusty cloud bigger than what you just sucked up. NONE OF IT WENT INTO THE BIN!!

The vacuum cleaner has a 1800 Watt motor, and yet it sucks less than my old 1100 Watt motor. Why? I thought this was new technology? You can't have a motor that uses more power and gives you less! Or is it the "special filter" that is stopping the air flow? I think it is!

I have only had this thing for 3 days now, and it started making farting noises today. So I opened it up, and sure enough, the "special filter" was STUFFED with dust. I mean, it was worse than the heat sync on my CPU! It was COVERED with dust! - So, as it says in the commercials, you can pull this "special filter" out and wash it. I did so, wet it a bit, and yes, the dust just sticks even harder. I had to get a knitting needle and pick all of the wet dust out of the small cracks you see in the image above. But it wasn't dust any more. It was more like gooey, sticky jelly mixed with ketchup and nutella (chocolate creamy stuff you put on your toast, for those that don't know it), only black. And it stuck anywhere it could. So I had to hold it under the tap to wash it out.

I spent AT LEAST one hour picking the dust out of the fine slots on this "special filter" and probably a water bill over 5000$. I regret not taking a picture of it when it was dirty, you'd laugh your butts off.


So, the moral of the story: You are better off sticking with the old vacuum cleaner that had bags.


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David R
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Posted: 30th Jul 2009 17:45
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Bagless hoovers are great. You just bought a crummy one. Case closed.

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Posted: 30th Jul 2009 18:34
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My first impression wasn't good at all... How many times do you have to clean the filter and is it hard for you?

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Posted: 30th Jul 2009 19:15
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Wow! That was really interesting.
Do you know who Paul Harvey was?

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Posted: 30th Jul 2009 19:52
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Quote: "Do you know who Paul Harvey was?"


*google google*

Ah yes, he was an American radio broadcaster for the ABC Radio Networks. He broadcast News and Comment on weekday mornings and mid-days, and at noon on Saturdays, as well as his famous The Rest of the Story segments. His listening audience was estimated at 22 million people a week. Harvey liked to say he was raised in radio newsrooms.

What about him?

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Posted: 30th Jul 2009 20:57
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You looked him up, but you didn't know who he was. I you did, my reference would have had more meaning. Your amusing exploits with your vacuum was somewhat reminiscent of his "Rest of the Story" material.

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Posted: 30th Jul 2009 21:26 Edited at: 30th Jul 2009 21:26
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It's standard practice for any company to create products that require replacement parts. Since they created vacuums that don't require bags they needed something for us to replace. So the "super advanced hepa-filters" took that replacement requirement the companies needed.

I have one that's a bit bigger than yours... it takes about 10 mins to clean it properly and by the time I'm done most of the dust in the filter is on my clothes... and I take the dust on me back into the house to start the cycle all over again.

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Posted: 30th Jul 2009 21:35
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Yes, like... Have you ever wondered why they give you a free printer with the purchase of a new computer but the ink cost $35.00 a cartridge?

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Posted: 30th Jul 2009 21:39 Edited at: 30th Jul 2009 21:41
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And the starting ink cartridges in new printers have only half the ink they normally carry so you're replacing it real fast. A lot of store employees know this and always recommend you buy ink cartridges for your new printer when you buy the printer. I'm sure it's very annoying for people to get a new printer home only to have to replace the ink a week after purchase.

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Robert F
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Posted: 30th Jul 2009 22:14
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We always just buy a new printer when we run out of ink. For some reason their is this printer that sells cheaper than its ink and it comes with ink...?

... or at least it did last time we bought it. I don't know about now. As for the vacuum cleaner, cant you just take it back?
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Posted: 30th Jul 2009 22:28
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Quote: "As for the vacuum cleaner, cant you just take it back? "


There is a 2 year guarantee, but that is only if it is defect, which it is not... Maybe I'll open it, cut the main wire and say it's defect?

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Posted: 30th Jul 2009 22:42
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Quote: "Maybe I'll open it, cut the main wire and say it's defect?
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Dude... be inventive. There are many cool ways to screw up a vacuum.

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Posted: 30th Jul 2009 23:09
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Quote: "Dude... be inventive. There are many cool ways to screw up a vacuum."



I'm sure about that, because I saw some very funny ways to destroy your vacuum cleaner on youtube. But there aren't many ways to do it so it looks like a product failure... I'll think of something. But what's the use of replacing a working vacuum cleaner I don't like with another identical model?

I saw someone recently on youtube suck up burning petrol with his vacuum cleaner. Guess what came out the back?

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Posted: 31st Jul 2009 00:01 Edited at: 31st Jul 2009 00:02
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Just melt the plug with something hot, that's destructive enough to look convincing whilst still being a possible factory defect.

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Robert F
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Posted: 31st Jul 2009 00:16
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Take it back and say their are no bags for it. lol
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Posted: 31st Jul 2009 01:01
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Here's an idea. Take it back and tell them that the "special filter" clogs up so bad in three days that the vacuum makes farting noises, it won't suck, it takes an hour to get the thing out and clean it, and you want one with a bag. Tell them that for a vacuum, it really doesn't suck!

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Posted: 31st Jul 2009 06:30
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Quote: "Here's an idea. Take it back and tell them that the "special filter" clogs up so bad in three days that the vacuum makes farting noises, it won't suck, it takes an hour to get the thing out and clean it, and you want one with a bag. Tell them that for a vacuum, it really doesn't suck!"


Make sure someone is recording you while you do it. You need to take it in and throw it at them while you are screaming to beef it up a little.
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Posted: 31st Jul 2009 09:09
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Quote: "Bagless hoovers are great. You just bought a crummy one. Case closed."


Thanks for providing personal experience with these types of products in order to back up your statement.

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