Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "Dyson ends relationship with 3rd party repair centers" video.

Note - OBS failed on you Louis, all your screen sharing inserts ended up with the same page. :P Just so you know. I'd never pay that much for a vacuum, and because local vacuum cleaners all have this problem of dying after a couple of years because there is no easy way to replace batteries, I decided to go with experimenting with Chinese copies of vacuum designs instead. There are almost no options for Dyson style cordless vacuums down here... by which I mean the ones that have the entire build on the top of the handle. Most cordless vacuums locally are the style that looks like a car vacuum that connects to the underside of the broom attachment... sorry, can't explain this much clearer. A few of the Chinese models use something like a standard cordless drill battery design to do the job. It's not perfect since there seems to be no solid standardization just yet (like say, all lighting gear using standard Sony NP-F batteries) which I hope happens at some point, but at least I'm spending about the same amount of money I would in the local market for better tech, and better compartmentalization of components. I already had a couple of Electrolux vacuums failing on me with no way to replace the batteries afterwards, and I tried doing this myself but the design is so tight with everything soldered on that it just doesn't make much sense to do it given how much work it is. Their models simply distribute a bunch of 14500s all around the shell of the vacuum all soldered interspersed with resistors and other components all around. There's also the fact that finding good Lithium ion batteries down here is kind of a hard thing to do... there is no good recycling centers to find that sort of stuff, if you go on stores what they have is the cheap Chinese batteries with zero testing and zero guarantees... but that's a different discussion. I also looked recently into the local market of cordless vacuums with replaceable batteries, but not only they were extremely overpriced, the only companies offering an option were brands like Makita, mostly for industrial settings. Down here those can be as expensive as Dyson for whatever reason... I think it's mostly because there is no local production, everything available currently is imported, and so importation taxes apply, which more than doubles the original price. The problem with Makita is that their batteries are insanely expensive locally, and I also heard that the brand also employs some firmware locking methods to stop you from replacing the 18650 cells inside it. So, after weeks of looking into this, I just went blind and bought something on Aliexpress. Might've been a total waste of money, but I'm just tired of wasting time, money and producing eWaste by buying locally. I needed to try something different. If this doesn't pay off, I'll just continue using my regular vacuum until things pick up here. But I hope the Aliexpress model works. But yeah, for me Dyson will never be on the menu. Their prices here range from 10 to 20 times that of a regular wireless stick vacuum, you gotta be in the 1% richest class of the country to even consider it. It's kinda like Apple products down here really - they are on the luxury category.
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