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Post# 3469   11/3/2006 at 07:41 (6,355 days old) by countryguy (Astorville, ON, Canada)   |   | |
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Post# 3601 , Reply# 2   11/7/2006 at 01:45 (6,351 days old) by bigbubbacain ()   |   | |
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The brand name 'Polti' has a machine that is the spitting image to this. I believe they're an Italian company. |
Post# 4283 , Reply# 9   11/20/2006 at 10:14 (6,338 days old) by thunderhexed (Edmond, OK)   |   | |
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Thsi past weekend, I came across the infomercial for the H2O vac.. I watched about 10 mins of it and turned it off. Now I've seen some infomercials in my day, but none as poorly executed as this.. For starters, when they do the competition between the h2o and a regular cannister vac sucking up fine dust.. there was obviously some rigging going on.. my dad came through the living room at this point and saw what was going on and made a comment about how insulting that was to ones intelligence.. There was either a vent BEHIND the regular cannister vac rigged to blow an enormous amount of dust into the air to make it look like the vac was inferior OR, as my dad suggested, they completely removed ALL filtration devices from the "inferior" cannister including the paper bag to basically just blow the dust through it. It was sad.. My parents 2 Kirby Heritage 84's have been through 3 COMPLETE house remodelings sucking up the finest of sheetrock dust, and one even survived an F5 tornado and these units are still going strong, with regular trips to the vac shop for basic maintenance and cleaning. Secondly.. When it came to the actual commercial part of the program showing the H2O against other vacs.. it never really showed how the H2O was emptied or how the water was used to actually filter the dirt, at least from what I saw. All it showed was how versatile it was for floor cleaning( I didn't see a powerhead anywhere) and how "light" it was. They had short segments that were repeated over and over with one lady using her Eureka softbag upright just gagging and hacking away at all of the "dust" that was being thrown into the air and then later chunking it in her trash.. another segment showed a lady "trying" to change her inner bag on a Kirby Heritage II as she RIPS the bag out and dust just goes flying everywhere.. again.. stupid.. even in emtpying the older styled cloth bags with the sani-scraper I have never encountered such difficulties or mess. Do they really think people are that uneducated? For some reason this infomercial just really irritated me and for my dad to make comment on it? He is NEVER one to make a fuss of anything like that at all. |