This item is a form over function impulse purchase if I've ever seen one. Especially if you've read the reviews and still want it. That's not to say you're wrong for buying it, but it's nothing more than eye candy.

It's MSRP, based on the amount of airflow and noise generated, is AT LEAST ten times more expensive than it should be for the function it performs. Cut that by a third and it's still way too expensive.

I'd love to own a Dyson vacuum cleaner, but this item is a waste of money.

cheezybeez wrote:Well compared to the $299 Dyson asked for when these first came out (still priced at this on their site) $99 is not to bad and IMO you're paying mostly for the novelty/name

If I make something pretty and retail it for $10,000 then drop the price to $1,000, would you buy it just because it's on sale?

I understand what you're saying, but just because there's a massive price drop on an egregiously overpriced item doesn't necessarily mean it's instantly worth the purchase. This is one of those items.

If it was quiet and powerful enough to create a black hole then I'd be in for one.

On the plus, it does look nice.

doc362 wrote:If I make something pretty and retail it for $10,000 then drop the price to $1,000, would you buy it just because it's on sale?

I understand what you're saying, but just because there's a massive price drop on an egregiously overpriced item doesn't necessarily mean it's instantly worth the purchase. This is one of those items.

If it was quiet and powerful enough to create a black hole then I'd be in for one.

On the plus, it does look nice.

I agree. You should also question the reason why there is such a large price drop.

100 dollar?...need um remote

inphilm wrote:In regards to moving air, it's not to bad. However I found the fan to be a little bit noisier than a conventional fan when pushing the same amount of air, it kind of bothered me so I returned mine. At $99 though, might retry it, ...going to ask the wife.

Ozeri makes some incredibly quiet tower fans that move a lot more air than this Dyson and even have a remote control.

Can I honestly say, "when the sh-t hits the fan" any longer? No splatter.....

I wouldn't spend more than $15 on one of these. But then again I would never buy a Dyson vacuum either because I'm more concerned about the value I get for the money spent.

"bladeless" fan $100
Tower fan $30 (more output then blade less)
box fan $15 (more output then a tower fan)

looks more like a conversation piece then anything else

i've got two of these and i love them!got them for the same price at a home improvement warehouse..got one in the bedroom and living room.the coolest part is everybody asking "what is that?"when they see them(they do make GREAT conversation pieces!)..got two dyson vacuums too..their technology is great..but,as always,people are afraid of things they don't understand..HA!..
there sure is a bunch of cheap ba$tards on woot!if you ain't got 100 bucks,just go to wallys world and get a box fan for 15.00..maybe it'll last a month(?)before it burns up..and.. (after you go through 10 of them)my dysons will still be working fine..quality costs money!..duuuh?

giveitalll wrote:Nice, best price I've seen, in for one.

Right, but it still begs the question, "what makes ANY fan, worth this much money"?

littlebrother2 wrote:i've got two of these and i love them!got them for the same price at a home improvement warehouse..got one in the bedroom and living room.the coolest part is everybody asking "what is that?"when they see them(they do make GREAT conversation pieces!)..got two dyson vacuums too..their technology is great..but,as always,people are afraid of things they don't understand..HA!..
there sure is a bunch of cheap ba$tards on woot!if you ain't got 100 bucks,just go to wallys world and get a box fan for 15.00..maybe it'll last a month(?)before it burns up..and.. (after you go through 10 of them)my dysons will still be working fine..quality costs money!..duuuh?

Fake poop is the ultimate conversation starter. You can spend as much as $10 on the Tobar Elite fake dog poo, but I find the 25 cent version works just as well.

We have one and it is loud, even on it's lowest speed.

littlebrother2 wrote:i've got two of these and i love them!got them for the same price at a home improvement warehouse..got one in the bedroom and living room.the coolest part is everybody asking "what is that?"when they see them(they do make GREAT conversation pieces!)..got two dyson vacuums too..their technology is great..but,as always,people are afraid of things they don't understand..HA!..
there sure is a bunch of cheap ba$tards on woot!if you ain't got 100 bucks,just go to wallys world and get a box fan for 15.00..maybe it'll last a month(?)before it burns up..and.. (after you go through 10 of them)my dysons will still be working fine..quality costs money!..duuuh?

That's a lot of text to essentially say, "I bought two of these and got ripped off. But I'm too proud to admit it. So I'll take my anger at myself out on strangers."

Good job.

Since Woot's takeover it has gone from a sales center for Roomba to a sales center for Dyson. Sorry, Woot, but you've lost your edge and my interest.

These fans are like Dysons vacuums. WAY over priced!

Dyson is trying very hard at being the Apple of their market segment. They both make very aesthetically pleasing designs and market them well. The difference is the Dyson products aren't really very good. Check some Consumer Reports (non-profit mag) reviews sometime. These fans are junk.

afseale wrote:Hello
Is this thing 120/240v, 50/60hz?

Cheers
Andrew

The last photograph shows a standard US plug, so I'm thinking 120v only.

I really want one of these but can't really afford it right now. Darn you Woot! Why are you such an evil temptress?

The only REAL reason you need this is so you can launch paper planes through it and across the office like the badass you know you are.

sinxation wrote:"bladeless" fan $100
Tower fan $30 (more output then blade less)
box fan $15 (more output then a tower fan)

So after you buy a box fan, you should buy a tower fan, and after that, you should buy a bladeless fan?

I'm not sure why you would say that. It looks like you're recommending we go in steps from the least expensive and most efficient to the most expensive and least efficient. A box fan, then a tower fan, then a bladeless fan.

A lot of advice has been provided for today's Woot. Suggest that you take everything with a grain of salt and get out of the house and go visit a local store (BB&B, Kohl's, etc.) that carries this item to afford you with the opportunity to check it out for yourself.

I did just that a few months ago when they were selling for $199 in-store. The unit moves much less air then a std fan and was quite loud. In a std fan you have relatively large blades moving at a relatively low RPM. With this unit you have relatively small blade moving at relatively high RPMs ... producing (IMHO) an annoyingly loud noise.

I might buy one if they were offered at the $25 price point ...

They're lying. These aren't bladeless, it's just that the blades are hidden in the base.

It looks great, but will it work with my Mac?

So it was Dyson who gave Obama that strategy

"that’s right, I said an air ramp"

No... no you didn't.

So psyched ... been wanting one of these for years.

Saved 200.00 bucks ...

not too bad for my first woot!

TwiddleDee wrote:These fans are like Dysons vacuums. WAY over priced!

Nonsense, my Dyson vacuum is the second best product I've ever purchased ... my Mac being the first.

Now if they could just add Siri so it would vacuum the house for you ...

I agree that this is the best price I've ever seen. I bought one a couple years ago for my wife, who had just gone through surgery in the summer and didn't like the buffeting caused by normal fans. I agree the cost is out-of-proportion to what you get. But the air from the fan is noticeably smoother than other fans (and also less powerful). My wife enjoys it, though, and still prefers it to other fans.

Back in the early 70's I went to a consumer wholesale trade show and saw a Japanese-made traditional bladed fan with NO safety enclosure. Instead, it has some kind of electromagnetic field around it that cut the power when you got too close. Now, THAT was cool.

dsentelle wrote:Well, I think that Anorion entity was trying to say they're not bladeless... The claim isn't that they're fanless... It is bladeless.

I'm going to buy one just so I can deconstruct it in front of 2 good point appointed witnesses and prove that there's blades in this thing, and just because they're hidden away down under everything in the base doesn't mean they don't exist.

Hey, I'm going to sell people computer-less computers. It is just going to be a box that you plug the monitor, keyboard, and mouse into.. Turn it on and VIOLA! There's your computerless computer. You can't see a thing. You wouldn't even know the thing was there if you didn't see those blinking lights that indicate that this thing actually does computing stuff without even having a computer.

jayducharme wrote:I agree that this is the best price I've ever seen. I bought one a couple years ago for my wife, who had just gone through surgery in the summer and didn't like the buffeting caused by normal fans. I agree the cost is out-of-proportion to what you get. But the air from the fan is noticeably smoother than other fans (and also less powerful). My wife enjoys it, though, and still prefers it to other fans.

I've used vertical "squirrel cage" fans for years and there is little or no buffeting from the internal rotating cylinder.

A noisy inefficient overpriced marketing blunder. Buy 5 fans with blades at Walmart at this price and and move 50x more air with less than 25% of the noise these generate.
BTW, this "Bladeless" fan has it's blades inside the base and merely pushes it up the tube through the ring.

m_smith10 wrote:Since Woot's takeover it has gone from a sales center for Roomba to a sales center for Dyson. Sorry, Woot, but you've lost your edge and my interest.

Ditto!

littlebrother2 wrote:i've got two of these and i love them!got them for the same price at a home improvement warehouse..got one in the bedroom and living room.the coolest part is everybody asking "what is that?"when they see them(they do make GREAT conversation pieces!)..got two dyson vacuums too..their technology is great..but,as always,people are afraid of things they don't understand..HA!..
there sure is a bunch of cheap ba$tards on woot!if you ain't got 100 bucks,just go to wallys world and get a box fan for 15.00..maybe it'll last a month(?)before it burns up..and.. (after you go through 10 of them)my dysons will still be working fine..quality costs money!..duuuh?

I usually start conversations quite well without the use of an overpriced fan.

nnssandman wrote:Dyson is trying very hard at being the Apple of their market segment. They both make very aesthetically pleasing designs and market them well. The difference is the Dyson products aren't really very good. Check some Consumer Reports (non-profit mag) reviews sometime. These fans are junk.

Wow! I was going to make this exact analogy! Yes! Just like Apple's marketing. "You want this because it is really cool and because it's an Apple! Everybody wants to own Apple products".

Eh, I think I'll stick with my practically antique Emerson Electric bladey fan. It doesn't have blades in the base, it has them right there, pointing at you, right in your face. Very sharp, steel blades with a very ineffective blade guard. Oh, it buffets so very much, but that's only because the motor is so powerful that it practically blows me out of my chair (okay, not really that powerful).

The only thing I could see a namby-pamby bladeless fan being good for is launching the cat. If the crappy fan in the base could be replaced with a super powerful centrifugal blower, such that if the cat was to jump through the hoop, it would help her to fly (more) effortlessly to the top of the fridge or something, I could see getting one of these. But being a Dyson, I have a feeling putting a better blower in the base would only cause the top to break off.

burns11 wrote:It's purported to be bladeless, not fanless. Never seen one opened up, but I'd imagine it's a centrifugal fan with impellers instead of blades.

This is why I dislike Dyson so much.The difference between a fan blade and an impeller is meaningless enough in this application as to be outright fraud.
And their magical vacuums always test in mid-pack on Consumer Reports.

If you want to move air efficiently I've got one word for you:Vornado.

NO it does not use BLADES like the front of an airplane.

It uses an IMPELLER more like the twisting fins inside a jet engine.

If you have children or pets that roam about this is a lot safer then leaving them alone with spinning blades.

Very easy to clean with one swipe of a damp cloth without having to disassemble the blades and grill of a conventional fan.

Noise ? There is a continuous variable speed control not just hi low and off so set it to your liking.

For those who found it cheaper new you bought a Chinese knock off.

Found one broken in a big box store? Most store Display models of anything are manhandled, dropped, and have small parts stolen off then, constantly.
Displays have to be routinely refreshed or replaced from customer damage.
Just look at the laptop displays in a Target, Walmart, etc.

Expensive ? No competition for this style and design so it costs what it costs.
$15 fan fine for you. There is a market for cheap junk, thats why its still made. Just for you.

rhj wrote:NO it does not use BLADES like the front of an airplane.

It uses an IMPELLER more like the twisting fins inside a jet engine.

If you have children or pets that roam about this is a lot safer then leaving them alone with spinning blades.


For those who found it cheaper new you bought a Chinese knock off.

Jet engines use fan turbines. Pumps use impellers.
Pets are smart enough to keep away from fan blades, a child will put their finger into it... only once. Us older experienced adults survived steel fan blades without all the super safety stuff out now and guess what? We still have all our fingers.

dwasifar wrote:So after you buy a box fan, you should buy a tower fan, and after that, you should buy a bladeless fan?

I'm not sure why you would say that. It looks like you're recommending we go in steps from the least expensive and most efficient to the most expensive and least efficient. A box fan, then a tower fan, then a bladeless fan.

I could be wrong but I believe his point is why spend $100 on a bladeless fan when you can buy a bladed one for much less money. At least that's my take on it.