There are definitely other vacuums out that do everything the Dyson does. Like my Bissel. That has an incredibly intuitively easy way to empty the dirt cup – flip a large lever on the front directly underneath the cup, grab the handle, pull the cup straight out, dump; slide the cup straight back in, flip the lever back the other way. It also has three easily accessible and easy-to-clean filters, and the hose not only provides incredibly strong suction but the whole motor/canister section pops out and hangs by a strap from your shoulder so you don’t have to lug the whole upright part around with you to use the hose.
Plus it cost under $200. I frankly can’t see spending twice at much at this point just to have the “must-have” name on my vacuum.
I, too, have a Bissell. It is a nice, economical machine no doubt sold cheaper than Dyson by virtue of its lack of expensive TV ad campaigns.
God, how the wife and I hate that Brit-twit and his attitude of " I’m your Superior, sent by God and King George to teach you ignorant, simian colonials the proper cleaning of carpets."!!
It seems pretty reasonable to interpret that as “this switch puts the vacuum in ‘bin emptying’ mode”, meaning it’s what you push to remove the bin for emptying. Asshole.
I’m sorry, I didn’t know I was posting in MPSIMS. :rolleyes: What the fuck ever. When I read the OP the first go through, as soon as he said he saw a “bin emptying” switch, I thought, “I bet he accidentally pressed that and it emptied everywhere.” I don’t have a Dyson and I’ve never seen one other than on commercials and I could figure out that ‘bim emptying’ meant IT WOULD EMPTY THE BIN.
I dunno, I don’t have one so I can’t comment on it’s ability to maintain “thuction” as it always sounds to me.
I have used a Rainbow (remember them) and I thought it worked really well for years. Much better than my Dirt Devil Stick Broom or whatever the hell it’s called.
Chill. It was obvious to me as well what “Empty Bin” meant. It just wasn’t as obvious to BoD nor yourself. (I’m guessing your “asshole” comment is based on this happening to you.) The difference is I’m reading Doug’s account as more frustration than actual anger over the mishap. You seem to be taking this a little too personally as an affront to your intelligence.
Keep this in mind, with a floor covered in dust you get to use the vacuum again!
I’ve never used one, but I plan on getting one soon. Of course, I said that last year. And now with the 360 fiasco it may be next summer.
They might have changed the design. I can’t empty the bin with out removing it from the machine.
An obvious button removes it from the machine, and another one drops the trap door on the bottom of the bin. There is nothing that says cyclone or remove or empty or anything.
As Mr. Dyson would say, “It’s bloody obvious”. Good thing you had your Dyson to pick up all the dust you dumped out :D.
galt: My problem was due to non-intuitive product design. Dyson puts little labels and diagrams (and I do mean little) on the unit, but they are NOT meant to be intelligible on their own. You still gotta RTFM (and at this point I doubt I could even FTFM) – AND remember some features that are way different from even other bagless vacs.
Actually, it’s never happened to me, as I haven’t used a dyson vacuum. zweisamkeit was treating the OP like a complete idiot for making an honest and reasonable mistake, which I think makes him an asshole.
whoa, sorry about the super-slo-mo double post. I came back to a computer I was using a couple of days ago and hit “refresh” on a timed out page that I didn’t realize was a “post reply” page.
