Dyson fan heater on air comparison with £3.00 supermarket model

[DunmowDizzy]

Couldn't believe my eyes this morning when the Dyson Fan heater was on and they did an on air demo with a comparison fan heater.

I picked up the comparison fan heater in Tesco for £3.00 a couple of weeks ago for my son going to Uni.

How on earth can they compare a £370 appliance with a £3.00 one?

OK the heater I bought was reduced to clear but full price was no more than £20.

I'm not saying there is no place for an expensive item like this but please don't compare it with an item you toss in your supermarket trolley with your groceries.:mysmilie_51:

 

[Miss Grumpy]

Couldn't believe my eyes this morning when the Dyson Fan heater was on and they did an on air demo with a comparison fan heater.

I picked up the comparison fan heater in Tesco for £3.00 a couple of weeks ago for my son going to Uni.

How on earth can they compare a £370 appliance with a £3.00 one?

OK the heater I bought was reduced to clear but full price was no more than £20.

I'm not saying there is no place for an expensive item like this but please don't compare it with an item you toss in your supermarket trolley with your groceries.:mysmilie_51:

There's a wonderful post on an online shopping retailer's website from an electrical engineer. He compared the Dyson with a supermarket fan heater, and found they performed virtually identically.

 

[louise66]

There's a wonderful post on an online shopping retailer's website from an electrical engineer. He compared the Dyson with a supermarket fan heater, and found they performed virtually identically.

This is ridiculously inaccurate. We sell all of Dyson's range of products, We need to be knowledgeable, therefore, of the features, technology, etc. A dyson fan/heater will, automatically, switch itself off, when the room reaches the optimum temperature. I have one customer, who owns a beauty salon. Because children are often present, she must ensure safety is paramount. The dyson has no blades and will not, if little fingers are playing with it, harm the child. Compare like with like. If a run of the mill supermarket product, was identical to a dyson, Sir James would soon be out of business.

 

[DunmowDizzy]

This is ridiculously inaccurate. We sell all of Dyson's range of products, We need to be knowledgeable, therefore, of the features, technology, etc. A dyson fan/heater will, automatically, switch itself off, when the room reaches the optimum temperature. I have one customer, who owns a beauty salon. Because children are often present, she must ensure safety is paramount. The dyson has no blades and will not, if little fingers are playing with it, harm the child. Compare like with like. If a run of the mill supermarket product, was identical to a dyson, Sir James would soon be out of business.

I do think there is a market for these high end products. I'm a Dyson fan myself but I think it's very poor form to be making comparison with a 'bottom of the range' supermarket product.

Additional features are great if you will use them and for many these additional features and the designer look will sell the item they should focus on this in the sales pitch. Demonstrating how much better it works than a non comparable item price wise is just wrong.

 

[loveallthingsitalian]

i buy the supermarket ones/Argos type fan heater for around the £30 mark and I would be the first to admit that they do not last long and once the cut out starts playing up or they start to give off a burning smell I replace them so I have often wondered if a more expensive one would be better in the long run. The big problems is that it seems to be £30 or £350 - little inbetween.

But totally agree that it is totally wrong to compare the two.

 

[historymystery]

lots of people may not agree with me, but my personal opinion of Dyson stuff is that it is over-rated. We had a Dyson vacuum cleaner, brand-new, given to us by someone we knew who was selling his electrical shop due to retirement. Not impressed at all. Our much cheaper vac. did a far superior job of picking up the bits IMO, and had we bought the Dyson, I would have been highly miffed and looking to return it, because they are not cheap. From our experience, I would not be looking to buy another one and since then I've heard a few comments from other people along the same lines.

Couldn't believe my eyes this morning when the Dyson Fan heater was on and they did an on air demo with a comparison fan heater.

I picked up the comparison fan heater in Tesco for £3.00 a couple of weeks ago for my son going to Uni.

How on earth can they compare a £370 appliance with a £3.00 one?

OK the heater I bought was reduced to clear but full price was no more than £20.

I'm not saying there is no place for an expensive item like this but please don't compare it with an item you toss in your supermarket trolley with your groceries.:mysmilie_51:

 

[boffy]

i like my dyson vacume cleaner better than henry, miele,bosch and aeg. even more so i love thier customer services none of the other companies i have used come even close. the come round to your house and service your over 5 year machine and replace all the parts for free. no other company i have used does this.

 

[snip]

I have two of these heater/fans and they are fantastic. They cost me 2/3 of todays price when I bought them. They heat a room very very quickly and are so safe and I would def buy them again and yes I know they are expensive but I got what I paid for

 

[mediastar]

I bought a dyson fan/heater combination from Very, works for me, best I've owned.

 

[Totally Loopy Lou]

I have two (different model) Glen fan heaters both 2000w which I use most days and have had for at least 9/10 years with never an issue and perform their function brilliantly. I think they were about £20 each?

My parents, who did have a dyson vacuum for many years (though they never got anyone out to the house to service it?! Think that that must be a special warranty?), decided to invest in a dyson heater. I talked them out of getting the heater/cooler because the reviews are so poor!

The dyson was extortionate and although the technology is obviously highly engineered and it does have additional features and design elements, in terms of heating a room it really isn't much different at all to a standard fan heater. And mine turns itself off when it reaches a certain temperature and oscillates anyway. My parents returned their heater and replaced it with a regular one saving a lot of money!

 

[boffy]

I have two (different model) Glen fan heaters both 2000w which I use most days and have had for at least 9/10 years with never an issue and perform their function brilliantly. I think they were about £20 each?

My parents, who did have a dyson vacuum for many years (though they never got anyone out to the house to service it?! Think that that must be a special warranty?), decided to invest in a dyson heater. I talked them out of getting the heater/cooler because the reviews are so poor!

The dyson was extortionate and although the technology is obviously highly engineered and it does have additional features and design elements, in terms of heating a room it really isn't much different at all to a standard fan heater. And mine turns itself off when it reaches a certain temperature and oscillates anyway. My parents returned their heater and replaced it with a regular one saving a lot of money!

no it was the usual free warranty. in fact its my daughters and it was older than 5 years by a few months and they still fixed it and gave her free spare parts 4 in total. fab service. my upright is at least 8 years and still going strong

 

[Totally Loopy Lou]

no it was the usual free warranty. in fact its my daughters and it was older than 5 years by a few months and they still fixed it and gave her free spare parts 4 in total. fab service. my upright is at least 8 years and still going strong

That is a good service, although most of their vacuums are three times what I've spent on Miele, so I would expect a superior level of service (well I personally couldn't and wouldn't pay their prices at all!)
Sure someone on here said that their Vax came with a 3 year similar service which really impressed me especially at that price point!

 

[ohnonotshoppingagain]

Does anyone own a dyson hot+cool, either am05 or am09. I've read a lot about them, and i have a very hot conservatory in the summer, and a very cold one in the winter, so at the moment although this would be my year round fav place to sit, i need to get something so that i can enjoy the conservatory.
Previous owners of the house had put two radiators in, i have gas ch, but the engineer recently told me the heat was not getting thru to the conservatory, usually this is because the installer would only use plastic piping, whereas most others would still use copper.

Both radiators even when turned up to 5 have no heat getting beyond the inlet pipe - i don't want to have my floors taken up so i'm stuck with the situation, hence my thinking about the dyson, because it would mean (if true) that i could use my conservatory all year round, but i would also want to know if this would mean a huge hike in my bills - anyone give me advice i'd be grateful.

 

[Lady Madonna]

I have two (different model) Glen fan heaters both 2000w which I use most days and have had for at least 9/10 years with never an issue and perform their function brilliantly. I think they were about £20 each?

My parents, who did have a dyson vacuum for many years (though they never got anyone out to the house to service it?! Think that that must be a special warranty?), decided to invest in a dyson heater. I talked them out of getting the heater/cooler because the reviews are so poor!

The dyson was extortionate and although the technology is obviously highly engineered and it does have additional features and design elements, in terms of heating a room it really isn't much different at all to a standard fan heater. And mine turns itself off when it reaches a certain temperature and oscillates anyway. My parents returned their heater and replaced it with a regular one saving a lot of money!

Yes I have a cheap fan to use in the conservatory and it works fine, two settings for heat and a cool setting. It cuts out when temperature is reached and cuts out if knocked over. I had a Dyson vac it was so heavy and spares are not cheap. Got a Vax now and spares are a good price.

 

[Craftalot]

Never mind the initial price, what about the cost of running a fan heater or any other form of non economy-7 electric heating? It's about the most expensive form of heating you could have, so you'd only want to use it very occasionally as a 'back-up' to your normal central heating or other arrangements. This makes the initial price of £300 of whatever is even more ludicrous.

 

[Mazza]

I have the Dyson hot and cold fan, amo5 perhaps? I bought it as an extravagant treat because I always use a fan in the sitting room during the summer and I like the look of them. I do have ordinary fans as well but think the Dyson just edges them out for keeping the room cool rather than wafting round (warm) air. I also have a couple of cheapo small fan heaters. I do not think there is really much difference between these and the Dyson. The cheap ones are a bit noisier but they can be used on the thermostat mode, but you cannot input a temperature and leave them to work it out IYSWIM. I only use them for heating if the temperature suddenly drops at night in the summer or Spring, ie when the heating is not being used.

I think it is pot luck with these things if you get a noisy model or a quiet one. I bought a smashing large fan from Woolworths for about £10 and it is really quiet. In the summer I have to run it all night in the bedroom and I can sleep through using it, no problem. With others I had, that was impossible.