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10 Best Vac Brands Rated By Reviewauthority. |
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| Post# 249661 9/9/2013 at 23:04 (3,879 days old) by sebo_fan (Scotland, UK, member AKA ukvacfan, & Nar2) | ||
Ten Best Vacuum Cleaner Companies Ranked in September 2013 by reviewauthority.com
Make what you will about this - clearly though a U.S based company, it is still good to see a few bagged uprights amongst the many bagless shown here. I know some members on here don't take kindly to online reviews etc but it is still interesting to see this kind of data. 
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| Post# 249676 , Reply# 4 9/10/2013 at 07:19 (3,879 days old) by Adamthemieleman (North Yorkshire ) | ||
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It's rather a useless report and correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't aspects such as cleaning ability and filtration efficiency be up there? Why bother with power usage, functionality and versatility, who bothers with these? I just want to know how well it cleans! Who are these daft people? | ||
| Post# 249698 , Reply# 6 9/10/2013 at 13:17 (3,879 days old) by sebo_fan (Scotland, UK, member AKA ukvacfan, & Nar2) | ||
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The thing is though, out of curiosity I often trawl the net for news about vacuums in general and because mostly I'm a fan "of the old school classic Hoover bagged uprights," I like to see what Hoover U.S have in terms of a bagged range. Whenever I have googled or searched, the Hoover Platinum Windtunnel and the Hoover Tempo are consistent U.S favourites and the older Tempo appears to be a good one, despite what others may think - it seems to sell quite highly too.
It is good to see bagged uprights still appearing in the list. Also, although the report is somewhat vague about the criteria, who is to say the reliability and cleaning performance hasn't been factored in already, under the "functionality," and "versatility,"? | ||
| Post# 249705 , Reply# 7 9/10/2013 at 14:21 (3,879 days old) by dysonman1 (the county) | ||
I want to know how many hours the motors last. At the Tacony factory we have a testing lab set up. It has many mechanical arms and lots of carpets. Vacuums are hooked up to the mechanical arm, and run 8 minutes on, 2 minutes off, until the motors burn out. It's timed, so we know exactly how long a Bissell or Hoover or Dyson or Riccar's motor will run. For most of them, the commutators throw a bar, and the motor stops. We've had to take the fire extinguisher into the lab many times with Bissell's over the years.
The only good thing I found about Review Authority's 'review' was the nice twin fan GE Swivel top and the Hoover Constellation hose. Ironic that their 'logo' for the vacuum review has a vacuum as it's mascot that's more than half a century old. | ||
| Post# 249735 , Reply# 9 9/10/2013 at 18:49 (3,879 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center) | ||
IN A WORLD... | ||
Post# 249737 , Reply# 10 9/10/2013 at 19:12 (3,878 days old) by bagintheback  (Flagstaff, Arizona) |
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 I don't trust this at all. I doubt this site, or whoever wrote this review, has even been physically present with these vacuums. Apparently the Hoover Tempo is more energy efficient than the Eureka Smartvac. They both draw 12amps! This is a result of seriously poor research, and possibly advertising money. | ||
| Post# 249969 , Reply# 12 9/12/2013 at 10:11 (3,877 days old) by dysonman1 (the county) | ||
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I have to laugh at the irony of all these "reports" (consumer or otherwise) over the years. I have all the CR vacuum issues in the library at the Vacuum Museum. The December, 1936 issue placed the Hoover 150 dead last in 'acceptable' category, and the Air-Way Twin Motor (Chief) in the 'not acceptable' category. They said "very short lived motors". The GE upright was first. History has proven them wrong, of course. Just as history today proves these "reports" wrong. I've never seen a dead Air-Way and the Hoover 150 was absolutely the BEST upright of 1936.
I think, these magazines should give these vacuums away to people for 3 months, then collect them all, and test them. Report on what's broken in that time period. Let them get 'broke in' first before testing them for efficiency AND durability, plus length of motor life. | ||
| Post# 250060 , Reply# 13 9/13/2013 at 06:03 (3,876 days old) by sebo_fan (Scotland, UK, member AKA ukvacfan, & Nar2) | ||
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Yes but the thing is, end of the day whilst we can all mock these reports, one has to remember "they're just vacuum cleaners," and for the most part, that's all the buyer will see. If we were living in an era of posterity we'd all be getting free offers from brands to test new products.
As is, brands like Vax and Bosch are forever putting special offers on new floorcare products for testers - but only to write a "biased" review. | ||
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