Vacuum cleaners
A mini catalogue for Argos dropped out of my paper yesterday morning.
Browsing through it, I noticed a page full of Dyson vacuum cleaners. The cheapest was £189.99, the most expensive was £303.49!!! What the fuck???!!!
There is no justification, ever, for anyone to spend three hundred quid on a vacuum cleaner. People buy them because they think they need them - the 'more expensive = better' mindset. You can buy a vacuum cleaner for fifteen quid or less if you look. Yes, the Dyson may be better, but is it £285+ better? I don't think so.
For three hundred quid it should have a small black hole inside it and be capable of vacuuming up small children and pets. Instead, for your money you get a gaudy plastic monstrosity that looks like a child's toy made by Fisher Price.
Where is the extra cost coming from? Perhaps it has more parts, I don't know, but they're still being turned out in the same type of factories in the far East by the same poor sods working for next to fuck all as the rest of them, so as far as I can see, Dyson justify it purely by their name being on it.
I used to be a postman, and I was always delivering spare parts to people on my round. Does this suggest that they're unreliable? Most people I know who have been naive enough to buy one have raved about it at first (perhaps justifying the purchase price to themselves) but have nearly all turned to saying how unimpressed they were in the long run.
Dyson? I shit 'em.
Additional: I just had a look at the Argos website, and there's an even more expensive model on there, for the bargain price of £342.99!
Browsing through it, I noticed a page full of Dyson vacuum cleaners. The cheapest was £189.99, the most expensive was £303.49!!! What the fuck???!!!
There is no justification, ever, for anyone to spend three hundred quid on a vacuum cleaner. People buy them because they think they need them - the 'more expensive = better' mindset. You can buy a vacuum cleaner for fifteen quid or less if you look. Yes, the Dyson may be better, but is it £285+ better? I don't think so.
For three hundred quid it should have a small black hole inside it and be capable of vacuuming up small children and pets. Instead, for your money you get a gaudy plastic monstrosity that looks like a child's toy made by Fisher Price.
Where is the extra cost coming from? Perhaps it has more parts, I don't know, but they're still being turned out in the same type of factories in the far East by the same poor sods working for next to fuck all as the rest of them, so as far as I can see, Dyson justify it purely by their name being on it.
I used to be a postman, and I was always delivering spare parts to people on my round. Does this suggest that they're unreliable? Most people I know who have been naive enough to buy one have raved about it at first (perhaps justifying the purchase price to themselves) but have nearly all turned to saying how unimpressed they were in the long run.
Dyson? I shit 'em.
Additional: I just had a look at the Argos website, and there's an even more expensive model on there, for the bargain price of £342.99!
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