The Joker   10 #49 Posted October 22, 2018 if all goddamn dysons are all built in a goddamn far east sweatshop, why are they so goddamn expensive Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
ez8004   10 #50 Posted October 22, 2018 if all goddamn dysons are all built in a goddamn far east sweatshop, why are they so goddamn expensive  The R&D still costs the metophorical shed load. The technology they employ no one can copy. You are paying for something that is different and proven to be good at what it does. The same argument can be made for mobile phones. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
The Joker   10 #51 Posted October 22, 2018 The R&D still costs the metophorical shed load. The technology they employ no one can copy. You are paying for something that is different and proven to be good at what it does. The same argument can be made for mobile phones.  Even so, if I'd paid the full whack £450 for the V8, or even £270 for the V6, I'd be feeling ripped off.  The V8 is good, but it's not worth £450. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Resident   1,131 #52 Posted October 22, 2018 (edited) if all goddamn dysons are all built in a goddamn far east sweatshop, why are they so goddamn expensive  Paying for ads that have no truth to them, such as the "digital motor". There's no such thing. It's still a common electromagnet motor. The difference being that Dyson uses pulse width modulation (PWM) to control the motor speed rather than varying the voltage.  PCs have used PWM for years (well before Dyson came along with his "digital" motor) to control cooling fan and water pump speeds. It's NOT new and certainly was NOT invented by Richard LIEson.  ---------- Post added 22-10-2018 at 22:14 ---------- ]  The R&D still costs the metophorical shed load. The technology they employ no one can copy. You are paying for something that is different and proven to be good at what it does. The same argument can be made for mobile phones.  You mean like technology mentioned above which he copied from elsewhere. Edited October 22, 2018 by Resident Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
mickey finn   12 #53 Posted October 22, 2018 Even so, if I'd paid the full whack £450 for the V8, or even £270 for the V6, I'd be feeling ripped off. The V8 is good, but it's not worth £450.  How much Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
El Cid   194 #54 Posted October 22, 2018 Numbers are everything: 0 -the number of cordless vacuum cleaners manufactured in the UK by Dyson. 0 -the number of anything manufactured in the UK by Dyson. 1000s - the number of British workers Dyson sacked.  I guess you have a Henry vacuum cleaner then, UK made, very expensive for what they are tho. But very trendy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
ez8004 Â Â 10 #55 Posted October 22, 2018 Paying for ads that have no truth to them, such as the "digital motor". There's no such thing. It's still a common electromagnet motor. The difference being that Dyson uses pulse width modulation (PWM) to control the motor speed rather than varying the voltage. Â PCs have used PWM for years (well before Dyson came along with his "digital" motor) to control cooling fan and water pump speeds. It's NOT new and certainly was NOT invented by Richard LIEson. Â ---------- Post added 22-10-2018 at 22:14 ---------- ] Â Â Â You mean like technology mentioned above which he copied from elsewhere. Â Going by your logic, all internal combustion engines are the same and no differential should exist Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Annie Bynnol   596 #56 Posted October 23, 2018 Thousands of blue collar workers being paid £20k or the best engineers being paid vastly larger sums. You obviously can’t stand the intellectual elite but that is the field we should be playing on. We can’t beat the developing nations on cheap manufacturing labour costs. We shouldn’t even try. We should be up skilling our workforce to high end manufacturing. That is where we can survive. If you can’t see that, then that is your problem. Your pointless bleating is otherwise just pure ill informed rhetoric that can’t be taken seriously.   Speaking out for thousands of highly skilled and highly paid British workers sacked by an individual is never "...pointless bleating..." or is it to the intellectual elite?  I do not agree that the decision to sack all these skilled workers and then to fund an organization that actively wants to take away UK workers rights is "...pointless bleating..." or is it acceptable to the intellectual elite?  I do not think that to comment on an individual who flits from being actively pro Europe and given a knighthood and an advisory capacity for innovation to the UK Government, is "...pointless bleating...", or do the intellectual elite disagree?  The accuracy of the statement that Dyson is now a foreign manufacturing company which sacked all of its highly skilled British manufacturing workforce, is not "...pointless bleating...", or do the intellectual elite disagree?  Notes and Queries: Salaries of £20 000? Really? "You obviously can’t stand the intellectual elite...". I really don't know what the symptoms of not standing the intellectual elite are? Perhaps a member of the intellectual elite can explain. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Stranza   10 #57 Posted October 23, 2018 How much  Don't. I've just splashed out for the v10 for Dads Xmas. If he ever found out how much it costs he'd have a heart attack!  Luckily Sainsbos new credit card has 29 0% months on purchases so it isn't a big lump in one go. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
alchresearch   207 #58 Posted October 23, 2018 Numbers are everything: 0 -the number of cordless vacuum cleaners manufactured in the UK by Dyson. 0 -the number of anything manufactured in the UK by Dyson. 1000s - the number of British workers Dyson sacked.  You can add cars to the list now:  Dyson to build his new electric car in Singapore https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45950377 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
ez8004   10 #59 Posted October 23, 2018 You can add cars to the list now: Dyson to build his new electric car in Singapore https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45950377  Notice how cost was not a factor. In other words, the U.K. no longer possess the engineering talent or enough of it. So we can’t enough compete at the high end either. This country is going downhill fast. We need a reality check, we are not as good as people think. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
woodview   10 #60 Posted October 23, 2018 Notice how cost was not a factor. In other words, the U.K. no longer possess the engineering talent or enough of it. So we can’t enough compete at the high end either. This country is going downhill fast. We need a reality check, we are not as good as people think. So, presumably you think we should be investing more in STEM education and supporting hi-tech industries? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...