Right to Repair

I have an older Dyson stick vacuum that works perfectly fine. The batteries for it are reasonable in the aftermarket, but I got an adapter that lets me use Milwaukee batteries and I have plenty of those. I have only had to replace the catch for the canister. I got it for $20 at Goodwill.

My mother has a Dyson from like 20 years ago that needed like $80 in parts to fix to make it just like new. It just needed the canister latch, after being dropped down stairs, as well as the main hose and the secondary hose.

Are they good vacuums? yes.

Are they bulletproof? No.

Are they reasonable to repair? Mostly, but major parts are expensive, but we are talking about a $$$$ vacuum.

They aren't a Kirby, but they don't cost Kirby money, especially if you buy a Dyson second hand and do a bit of maintenance. For US people, shopgoodwill.com has Dyson's for sale second hand for cheap, like $50 for a stick and under $100 for an upright.

Having sold them in a previous life, marketing and hype.

We got a lot of people who would "upgrade" from a Miele vacuum because they wanted to stop buying bags, then see them a few months later buying bags for their Mieles.

Sorry to all the people who like them, but bagless vacuums leak sooner or later and say what you will about upright vacuums, you just can't reach as many spots as a low profile head on a pole.

It's literally just Apple.

I have a dyson ball. I litterally pulled it out of a dumpster and repaired it (the brush was competlety tangled up and caused the motor to freeze up). Works well enough and for free its decent. But the build quality is meh. So many plastic parts for places to be abused and no suprised are broke. At best its a $150 vaccum imo.

I mean, that's survivor bias...

Lots of those had manufacturing faults 40 years ago. The ones still hanging around are the ones that didn't have flaws.

But for the Dyson, that's just how capitalism works.

The company has to always make percent profit increase, at a certain point you only get that by cutting manufacturing/materials.

Like, plenty of 20 years old Dyson's kicking around, but a brand new one is gonna be more likely to break because they're cutting more corners today.

Dyson?

All hype, very little build quality

They're expensive because hype. At some point they used to be the bleeding edge of cordless and bagless, they did come up first with some useful designs, they did clever marketing, and this set them up in the consumer's minds as "must be top".

Quality wise they're not bad in my experience but their price is absolutely overblown. You can get equal or better for a third of the price.

Also another thing I've noticed is that people who use clumping cat litter of any kind for their cats always have shit vacuums, no matter what brand. That type of litter will destroy them guaranteed. You need to clean the filters way more frequently and even then they're never working right. I'm not saying that's your case but if you do, just bear in mind.