Advert for Dyson's smallest vacuum banned by watchdog

[cronus]

Advert for Dyson's smallest vacuum banned by watchdog was misleading customers

A television advert for Dyson's smallest vacuum cleaner has been banned for misleading viewers over the product's space-saving credentials.
The ad showed the extension tube or 'wand' being compacted before the vacuum cleaner was seen, without the wand or hose, being placed on a shelf in a cupboard.
A voice-over said: 'So there you have it, the smallest, quietest Dyson Ball vacuum.'

A viewer complained this misleadingly implied that the extension tube and hose could be folded away into the product when they understood this was not the case.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z2tkkfQ1sT

[JimC]

Well that certainly sucks...

[Rum]

THIS - on top of the Ukraine! I don't think I can stand it any more!

[JimC]

THIS - on top of the Ukraine! I don't think I can stand it any more!

Nature abhors a vacuum...

[cronus]

Ukraine = Egypt II, who cares, seen the movie and been there done that.

[pErvinalia]

Someone text me when a real revolution starts.

[Clinton Huxley]

Dyson should stick to making spheres

[rainbow]

Dyson should stick to making spheres

Didn't they make disks?

[mistermack]

I don't think Dysons are as great to own, as they would have you believe.
I've often thought that their ads were misleading. And I often look on freecycle, and there are always lots of dysons advertised free to collect. Either with faults, or sometimes without.

Vacs used to last twenty or thirty years. I don't think Dysons are in that bracket.

[laklak]

They're the must-have home accessory for the cool hipster young urban metrosexual professional. One guy I know posted his new Dyson to fucking Facebook. It should be legal to punch people like that in the face. EDIT You know the people I mean. Guys with retro horn rim glasses and skinny jeans. People who brag about how small their apartment is and refuse to drink Merlot. They drive those stupid Smartcars or even worse a fucking Vespa scooter.

I use a 12 gallon Shopvac. Fucker will unplug a drain and strip the fur off the cat.

[Robert_S]

They're the must-have home accessory for the cool hipster young urban metrosexual professional. One guy I know posted his new Dyson to fucking Facebook. It should be legal to punch people like that in the face. EDIT You know the people I mean. Guys with retro horn rim glasses and skinny jeans. People who brag about how small their apartment is and refuse to drink Merlot. They drive those stupid Smartcars or even worse a fucking Vespa scooter.

I use a 12 gallon Shopvac. Fucker will unplug a drain and strip the fur off the cat.

Dude, seriously, don't store the cats in the drain. It's against some kind of regulation I'm sure.

[orpheus]

THIS - on top of the Ukraine! I don't think I can stand it any more!

Nature abhors a vacuum...

But not as much as cats do.

[piscator]

They're the must-have home accessory for the cool hipster young urban metrosexual professional. One guy I know posted his new Dyson to fucking Facebook. It should be legal to punch people like that in the face. EDIT You know the people I mean. Guys with retro horn rim glasses and skinny jeans. People who brag about how small their apartment is and refuse to drink Merlot. They drive those stupid Smartcars or even worse a fucking Vespa scooter.

...to the grocery store where they buy 20-30 different kinds of vegetables so rare, expensive, and exotic they don't even have UPC codes and so price checks add 10 minutes to checkout. Then they pay with an EBT card.

I use a 12 gallon Shopvac. Fucker will unplug a drain and strip the fur off the cat.

[laklak]

...to the grocery store where they buy 20-30 different kinds of vegetables so rare, expensive, and exotic they don't even have UPC codes and so price checks add 10 minutes to checkout. Then they pay with an EBT card.

I was just in the Fresh Foods store, which is like a Whole Foods only presumably fresher. Wooden floors, really skinny aisles, lots of crunchy hipsters and background jazz music. They had organic fair trade red bell peppers for $3.99 each. There's a whole collection of weird root vegetables from around the world, all of which look like an old pine branch and probably need slaking in lye to draw out the poison. Probably have some of that catshit coffee.

[JimC]

I don't think Dysons are as great to own, as they would have you believe.
I've often thought that their ads were misleading. And I often look on freecycle, and there are always lots of dysons advertised free to collect. Either with faults, or sometimes without.

Vacs used to last twenty or thirty years. I don't think Dysons are in that bracket.

Incorrect! We've had ours for around 25 years!