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"HEY SIS....you gotta buy:)"
this is the best canister vac, suction is good enough for carpets as well as hard floors.....ok, sis buy it!!!!!!

"Oh my goodness, is there still stuff coming up?"
I was worried about the lack of a powered brush on this item, but I shouldn't have. I had to empty out the dust cup 5 times just from vacuuming my bedroom carpet. And this carpet had already been vacuumed with my 'more powerful' upright that has a beater brush...eek! This is a wonderfully light, powerful, well-designed little workhorse. I would have liked a crevice tool, but I haven't actually found anything it couldn't do without one. As an owner of two pets that shed year-round, I am resoundingly impressed.

"This will suck your socks off!!"
I cannot believe how great this little gadget is. I vacuummed my house the day before the Bissell Butler came in with a heavy duty Kenmore Whisper belt vacuum cleaner with a HEPA Filter. Just to try out the Bissell Butler, my son started vacuuming with it, and then I heard him scream OH, WOW!!! MOM LOOK AT THIS!!! My son showed me so much dust that the Bissell Butler collected in just a minute of vacumming, that it was unbelievable, and embarrasing I might add. If you have any doubts about the Bissell Butler, DON'T. Just go to the nearest appliance store or website and buy it!!!

"Vacuuming Doesn't Suck Anymore!!"
As a new stay-at-home dad, I quickly grew to hate my wife's upright vacuum. It was difficult to manouver, heavy, and was too "thick" to get under edges of cabnets. Also, it was as loud as a jackhammer and woke up the babies. So, I started doing serious comparison shopping for a cheap canister vac for light cleaning.
Let me tell you, I hit the jackpot with the Bissell 6700 Butler Revolution Canister Vacuum.
Not only was it incredibly low priced, but it's a bundle of well-engineered and thoughful features. The extremely efficent and easy-to-use dirt-trap catches virtually all of the debris before it gets to the bag. So, the vacuum doesn't progressively loose power like most bag-vacuums seem to do. Also, since it's clear, you can see what you've collected. So if you hear a PING while using the telescoping handle (another great feature) to suck up the Cherios from behind the washing machine (it's a toddler-thing), then you can easily see if it was a lost diamond ring, or a penny.
It's also very quiet, rolls easily, has a cleanly-retracting cord, a convinent carrying handle, and a "Bag Full" indicator light. I'm mightily impressed!
This is, hands down, the best vacuum I've ever used. The only missing feature that would keep it from being the best-ever is that it lacks a beater brush for carpet. However, it's powerful enough that our carpets look better than they did with our old upright-with-a-beater-brush.
This rinks with my TiVo and iPod as a completely-necessiary gadget.

"I thought I was giving up quality at the $54.99 price."
Long story short: I have a nice Windtunnel....works great on carpets, but on tile it's obnoxiously loud and terrible + using the onboard tools even with it's longer extra cost hose still causes tip overs. Our apartment is entirely mexican tile with throw / area rugs. This will be my plan also for my home I will purchase within a year using some berber/low nap for certain areas. Without carpets the house feels more clean and airy.

Enter my wife who cannot put up with American appliances being so loud (she is from Japan, everything is quiet)....so we look for Samsung vacuums (the 9069 or 9048) since they seem to compete with the Miele S251 series at a lower cost (about half)...we find out there are no more Samsungs being made. I get ready to buy the Flamenco II at $300 shipped (instead of the normal $379 because they ran out of Samsungs), but then pull up Amazon and find out about the Butler Revolution....I had a $50 Gift Certificate sent to me so figured at $4.99 out of pocket it was worth the risk. [I also checked out the Electrolux Harmony, but at $300+ and an extremely small bag I passed]

Got it quick and tried it out. Retractable cord a big plus....really quiet, comparable to the Miele easy....huge wheels = easy to cart behind you....also has a great grab handle for vertical and horizontal carrying. Picks up things great as well and floor tool gets under most things (although the carpet/tile selector makes you loose a valuable 1/2" of clearance perhaps).

The 'stick-on' attachment holder is only a problem until you learn where to position it so it doesn't get in your way....I plan to buy the crevise tool and an additional clip.

The hose attachment is well designed, better than the 360 degree pivoting design on the Miele and Samsung's other machines....follows you more easily. I don't like the friction fit of the rest of the attachments...should not have been hard to build in a 'snap together' fitting...but I doubt it will prove a problem in less than a year or two and a drill and a small brass thumbscrew would make for a great solution.

The extendable wand is great as well. No bending over or stretching to get ceilings.....the handle also has the 'old fashioned' sliding vent to lower the suction if needed (good when you grab a throw rug or a sock your kittie hid under the couch ;) )

The dust cup is awesome. My kitties hair turns into little 'mice' inside and saves the pretty decent sized bag (we got 5 I think total in the box, easily a year's worth).

I'd place money on this machine at 3x the cost easy....even willing to wager a bet at 6x the cost as well with the only criteria being tile and throw rugs only and no HEPA/Allergy test (as it's not dusty at all and I am sensitive to dust in my eyes...but it's not a HEPA equipped machine so it would lose on that).

I also can use it every day extremely easily so my apartment is staying very clean....it's not a burden to bring this machine out of the closet for a quick go around.

If you do not have carpets and/or have an average sized home (1500 sq feet or less) this is probably the machine for you. Bigger places would more than likely find a larger machine more capable. Carpeting of course needs to have a 'beater' brush / power head setup.


Without a DOUBT this has been my best deal ever and most satisfying purchase.


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