Quote from Carmine_Difazio on 05/30/07 at 6:33pm:

I could divide the number of apples in my neighborhood grocery by the numer of astronauts in the space program, and get a number, but would the result be useful for anything? I think not, unless the store closed and the astronauts took up residence there with apples as their only food source.
 
What percentage of Dyson's engineers are working on vacuums? What percentage of those worked on the DC21? What percentage of the worldwide sales are accounted for by HSN? Will HSN continue to sell at this pace, or was this a one-shot deal? Add that information, and perhaps you might get something useful. In the absence of it, I have no idea if $300,000 in sales in 4 days is good or bad, nor how it relates to the cost of developing the DC21.
 
I find it strange that keep knocking Dyson for employing engineers. Why and when did R&D and product development become a bad thing?

Quote from Carmine_Difazio on 06/01/07 at 6:01pm:

 
How many engineers did Hoover employ?  Must have been too many.  

Has anyone seen or reported to Dyson Lovers that  the ASA     ( Advertising Standards Authority) ruled that because the filter needed occasional cleaning to maintain suction, the claim " No clogging. No loss of suction" was misleading.
  Dyson is to clean up their advertising.  
  The ASA received 36 complaints from people who also said the "No Clogging, No loss of suction was misleading.
  All this reported on May 30, 2007 in London by Reuters.

Looks like HSN has the DC21 Stowaway back online for sale for $499 with free shipping.  With the caveat 'almost sold out" and only 9 left.   I suspect HSN buys in lots of 12.
 
And BTW, HSN doesn't have the customary dyson claim to shame (I mean sham, NO fame):  The canister that "doesn't lose suction."  
 
But the claim to shame (I mean fame) is still on the dyson USA Web Site for the DC21.  Apparently "fake James" didn't get the the ASA ruling yet.  
 
Carmine D.

Hello My Friend JimB:
 
So was Regina NUMBER ONE on Main Street and Wall Street right up until the time it went belly up and its CEO and CFO went to jail for fraud and cooking the books.  I believe Forbes reported on Regina too several times in the 1980's including it's swan (farewell) song.   Regina was a publicly traded company so its Officers hoodwinked the SEC and its outside auditors FOR SEVERAL YEARS with false numbers and filings.  Unlike dyson, which is privately owned, and doesn't have to reveal any financial data (even to Forbes magazine which probably merely is reporting what dyson tells it).  
 
It never ceases to amaze me how gullible and trustworthy most people (even those purporting to be business smart) are to deceiving numbers, bad data, misinformation, and outlandish product claims (Global Crossing, Enron, Tyco, MCI, Arthur Andersen etc, etc, etc.).  
 
Like the dyson claim to shame (I mean fame): "The only vacuum that never loses suction. "  You care to comment on that false claim (and wrong thinking)?  Or did you miss the ASA news report and ruling agianst dyson?
 
Jimmy the Pro/OT has been saying the dyson claim of NEVER LOSES SUCTION is false and "wrong thinking."  For the past 5 years and still.  ASA finally listened after 36 dyson "fooled" vacuum buyers complained after being sucked in by the dyson hype and hawking.  That's more than all the complaints HOOVER/CPSC received for the WT switches over a half dozen years of WT sales.  And it cost HOOVER 3/4 million dollars in fines.   Go figure.  
 
Carmine D.