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Why are Dyson products so popular? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by manualoverride@lemmy.world to c/right2repair@discuss.tchncs.de

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This is honestly just a bit of a rant as my Dyson V10 has broken again…. This is what has broken in the last year:

trigger guard snapped
battery died
head pivot broken
empty-mechanism snapped
filter showing clogged after cleaning, needed a new filter.

Every replacement is exorbitantly expensive, and requires as complicated replacement procedure as possible. A battery that consists of seven 18650 cells which should cost ~£20 to replace is £90! You can’t replace the cells as the unit is plastic welded together.

You know what isn’t broken and has never broken; my 40 year old Sebo which is now been promoted from ‘upstairs vacuum’ to ‘primary vacuum’

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[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean that's still on you for not establishing never buying a Dyson again. I always talk about this stuff with family/friends at some point when I get frustrated with current tools. Surely there's better out there, and someone knows about it.

I'd never buy one because they're exorbitant, and I can tell from touching one the plastic is brittle (and clear plastics seem to always be less flexible than colored plastics).

The price alone is insane. $500 for a vacuum? I can buy five of my current vac for that price. There's no way it works 5 times better, it's a vacuum.

The Dyson is just the 21st century equivalent of the Rainbow from the 1970's. (Wow, apparently people are still sucker's for the Rainbow).

[–] manualoverride@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

That’s fair, I’ve told her now… no more surprise Dysons. Just thinking though for the ~£500 a new one would cost I could buy a lathe, and enough tooling, titanium, glass Fiber reinforced plastic etc to remake every failure prone component.