To clarify, it isn’t just because they’re bagless that I don’t like Sharks. There are a number of reasons including, but not limited to,the awkwardness of the tools, The undersized suction motor, the Poorly thought out chassis design, the unnecessarily bulky hose setup with that short slinky hoes hanging down awkwardly, and the lack of parts availability. I can say this because I’ve gotten the opportunity to see the issue from both the users perspective and the technicians point of View, and in both areas, the machines from Shark have severely let me down. The other problem is, the bagless designed that they use is very much outdated by today’s standards, and is more reminiscent of an older Kenmore Bagless or Eureka Whirlwind design. That might’ve been fine for the 90s or early 2000s, but today, Dyson and even $100 Hoover machines have better bagless designs with two or more cyclones. Being that the patent on cyclone technology is now expired, there is no passable excuse for Shark not to update their dust bin design.
To be fair, some of the reasons I mentioned above are the same reasons I wouldn’t buy a Kenmore Intuition; even though it is bagged, it shares a lot of the same design flaws with Shark, including the unnecessarily bulky Chassis and the short slinky hose hanging down the back. The problem with this set up, especially with the curved handle built-in, is that there’s no easy way to add an extension hose like you can with the Sebo Felix. This defeats the purpose of the lift away function, as you can’t set the machine on the floor and do above floor cleaning, or even edge cleaning. They really should’ve gone with a properly mounted hose that wraps around the back of the machine instead, and made the curved handle an extra attachment.
