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Post# 250278   9/15/2013 at 13:13 (3,846 days old) by paulc (Edinburgh)   |   | |
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Turbo500 brought the Shark Rocket to my attention yesterday on Facebook. I must say I love the features, attachments and the look of this vacuum. I hope it reaches UK shores. As you all know I have the UK version of the Navigator Lift Away and am really impressed. I'm hopeful these new Shark's perform as well.
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Post# 250290 , Reply# 2   9/15/2013 at 14:39 (3,846 days old) by paulc (Edinburgh)   |   | |
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your youtube channel, have been watching lots of your reviews! I would love if we could get the full range of Shark cleaners here. I have to admit I really like the digital slim copy, especially as it's mains operated.
Hopefully Shark will realise they have a market in the UK, the Rotator Lift Away Pro is certainly on my wish list! |
Post# 250298 , Reply# 3   9/15/2013 at 16:20 (3,846 days old) by dysonman1 (the county)   |   | |
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What Shark needs to do is get away from the single cyclonic dirt separation. It's incredible how much dust is passed, in one use, to the foam filters.
Here in the USA, there's no parts available for Shark vacuums at your local vac shop. The warranty forces the owner to pack the vacuum up, pay for postage to New York, wait a month or more for the repair, AND include $30 to cover return shipping. The warranty also excludes brushes, filters, (which is normal), but also "electrical parts". In essence, the warranty is on the body and the hose. If one of the wheels goes bad on the power nozzle, you MUST buy an entire new power nozzle assembly. Shark is betting you'll throw it away and buy another, as they make it extremely difficult to obtain warranty coverage. Their 'customer call center' is in India. Good luck understanding them when you call. Another disadvantage. |
Post# 250413 , Reply# 5   9/16/2013 at 19:46 (3,845 days old) by sebo_fan (Scotland, UK, member AKA ukvacfan, & Nar2)   |   | |
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Has Dyson not moaned about this yet? I like what Shark have got here : )
I like the idea that it is corded as well. 8lbs as its advertised is approximately 3.6kg and has a 9.7metre cord. You tube video link below. CLICK HERE TO GO TO sebo_fan's LINK |
Post# 250440 , Reply# 6   9/17/2013 at 03:00 (3,845 days old) by tolivac (Greenville,NC)   |   | |
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Could there be a lawsuit from Dyson involving this machine from Shark? |
Post# 250920 , Reply# 9   9/22/2013 at 11:51 (3,839 days old) by sebo_fan (Scotland, UK, member AKA ukvacfan, & Nar2)   |   | |
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Having just visited your site I don't think it is the fault of the "people" who are demanding a versus test of the Shark Rocket and the Dyson Digital Slim, but rather the fault of the company who have not properly named the product distancing itself away from the Rocket / Pro thus causing possible confusion.
You can say what you like but I disagree wholeheartedly with the statement "The Shark Rocket is designed to be an upright vacuum in a new form factor, whereas the Dyson Digital Slim is designed to be a machine for quick cleanups..." The Dyson and the Rocket are virtually the same - only one of them is corded and offers the older cyclone shroud for No Loss of Suction... Both can be used for short pick ups - and both have small dust bin capacities as proof of that, not just helped by the design overall. May as well stick to the Miele Quickstep - offers a similar function and only weighs 4kg, a bit more than the Rocket hand held/whatever. |
Post# 251219 , Reply# 10   9/24/2013 at 15:43 (3,837 days old) by logdog ()   |   | |
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I agree that they are both designed to be quick cleanup machines, but Shark has decided to market the machine as an upright, and as such, that's the product class I will be judging the Rocket against. |
Post# 251226 , Reply# 11   9/24/2013 at 16:58 (3,837 days old) by sebo_fan (Scotland, UK, member AKA ukvacfan, & Nar2)   |   | |
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Well unless you want your viewers to think you have egg on your face, they'll see from the specs that this is no way an upright vacuum cleaner but rather a hand held vacuum with a power nozzle. Even Shark say its a 2-in-1 vacuum...
Not sure about their claims though - in so far as their versatile cleaning goes.. but thats down to marketing speak, I guess. |
Post# 251251 , Reply# 13   9/24/2013 at 21:20 (3,837 days old) by sebo_fan (Scotland, UK, member AKA ukvacfan, & Nar2)   |   | |
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It doesn't say it "performs like an upright" and leave it like that, but rather if you read what it says, it makes the statement of a stick vacuum that performs like an upright- when has a stick vacuum ever been considered to be a full sized upright vacuum? That's what most buyers will look at if Shark pap this vacuum off as - in my eyes it isn't an upright vacuum, but rather just a hand held vacuum with a long suction tube and power nozzle - cue the Miele Quickstep cue Black and Decker - plenty of other rivals.
Dont get me wrong, I dont dislike this vacuum at all - I'm just not sure about Shark's outlandish claims - it isn't unique, copying the likes of Dyson's complete design and just adding a PN with a mains cord to it. Perhaps Shark got wind of Dyson trying out a corded version... |
Post# 251576 , Reply# 16   9/29/2013 at 00:47 (3,833 days old) by sebo_fan (Scotland, UK, member AKA ukvacfan, & Nar2)   |   | |
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Post# 251577 , Reply# 17   9/29/2013 at 00:59 (3,833 days old) by Vacuumfreeeke ()   |   | |
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Yes! :o) Wal-mart has a very liberal return policy... |
Post# 251595 , Reply# 18   9/29/2013 at 07:16 (3,833 days old) by sebo_fan (Scotland, UK, member AKA ukvacfan, & Nar2)   |   | |
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Gosh - you must be well known at their stores : )
$150 is dirt cheap - that's equivalent to £92 approximately. That's quite price competitive. Having had a similar design before with my Black and Decker corded hand held, my hand gets a real hot work out - when you say "hand fatigue," does this mean the same thing with the motor being so near to the hand? Or does it feel uncomfortable? I can't help but wonder why Miele haven't improved or made the Quickstep smaller as it does the same design quite well with the long pole reversed and clipped onto the end with a floor head. Shark may well offer that in the future where effectively the motor/hand held unit can be swapped over to produce a proper stick vacuum. But then thinking out aloud, so could Dyson! |
Post# 251671 , Reply# 20   9/29/2013 at 21:47 (3,832 days old) by sebo_fan (Scotland, UK, member AKA ukvacfan, & Nar2)   |   | |
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Post# 251703 , Reply# 21   9/30/2013 at 12:24 (3,831 days old) by ultraperformer (Derbyshire, UK, Europe)   |   | |
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Post# 251704 , Reply# 22   9/30/2013 at 12:36 (3,831 days old) by hoove94 ()   |   | |
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yeah...those after filters on sharks always get dirty...its not exactly dirt, mainly just carbon dust |
Post# 251711 , Reply# 23   9/30/2013 at 13:44 (3,831 days old) by dysonman1 (the county)   |   | |
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All the dirt that the single cyclone doesn't separate from the air, goes directly to the filter. On a proper cyclonic machine, that dust would be separated by the high efficiency cyclones. Shark's "no loss of suction" claim cannot be taken as accurate. In the test to be able to claim 'no loss of suction', the machine only has to inhale on bin full of dirt. As long as the suction and airflow change no more than 5%, they can make the claim. Most Shark owners do not clean their filters often, if at all. I can imagine how hot that tiny little motor will get when the filters are dirty.
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Post# 251723 , Reply# 24   9/30/2013 at 18:45 (3,831 days old) by sebo_fan (Scotland, UK, member AKA ukvacfan, & Nar2)   |   | |
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This is why it would stand to reason to keep that Miele Quickstep in anyone's collections - I might have not found favour with it but I still keep it in my collection - the model serves a good purpose but Miele would make a killing here to offer a far lighter motor for the same kind of design as the Shark offers, but obviously keeping with the bag installed.
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