Friday, May 13, 2011

Vacuum Cleaner Series: Dirt Devil

They offer 12 different varieties of upright vacs. Twelve!

I mean, you need three for a high, mid, and low range.  Then maybe some in-between.  Like Oreck, they had, what 6 which is plenty sufficient.  I hope I'm not going to compare everyone with Oreck now.

On to Dirt Devil. For a quick test of the water I usually will check out the reviews on Amazon. and D.D. has some low reviews out there:

Extreme Quick: 2/5
Featherlite Bagless: 2.5/5
Ultra Swivel Glide & Reaction: 3.5/5
Breeze Bagless, Optima Lightweight, Featherlite Bagged: 4/5

I'll look at the three that had 4 stars. The two, Optima isn't on their website.
"Featherlite" is 11lbs, "Breeze" is 13.15 (at least they're accurate). No Hepa filtration (the Featherlite has "Micro Fresh" Filtration, but they do have on-board tools (maybe that is the extra weight)). Not that impressed, let's find their best.

Sorting by price, their most expensive upright is the $90 Ultra Vision Turbo Vacuum. It has all the bells and whistles, including actual Hepa filters, and weighs in at a whopping 19 lbs! Do they expect people to carry that up and down the stairs?

Think of all the Chiropractor visits!

Sorry, but your lackluster reviews and lack of any attempt to make vacuums lighter in the world we live in gives you a big Thumbs Down. Dirt Devil seems like the cheap vacuum you get that will last a good 3 years.

Maybe if you cared as much about product development as social media your uprights would be under 10 lbs.

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