Title: cheap and nasty dud
Product review: I bought mine at Sears several years ago on the strength of reviews at Amazon and in Consumer magazine. The latest issue (March 2012) continues to give it a rave, which reminds me that mine sits in a cupboard barely used. I got sick of squeezing out the kinks in the hose, it's heavy as hell (and I'm a strong 40-year-old dude), noisy (I need ear plugs), the bag monitor got stuck on full, it's unwieldy on stairs (as warned), and it never really sucked anything. I had to go over every patch of carpet several times, and we don't even have pets or messy kids. I would dump it, but I stupidly bought dozens of bags, so I need to buy a replacement on the basis of the bags it uses.
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