"People like the idea of bagless because it's cheap
That's the thing, they aren't when they're being used by the average laymen...
Think of this scenario:
Joe bloggs spends £/$75 on a WhizzBucket Bagless 5000, he doesn't read the instructions and just plugs in and goes, he dumps it out and uses it about 25 times over the course of a few months, in that time he notices it's not picking up properly, he goes to look for the instructions only to find Jane Bloggs has thrown them out, so then he pulls out the main filters, missing the secondary one out, and cleans them, but he refits them only to find that it's still not picking up, so he decides that it's broken and throws it out, then he goes out and buys a Binford 6100 Power Bagless for £/$75, and the same happens again, ad infinitum....
So, to say a bagless is cheap, to be honest is rubbish, for example a pack of six of Kirby's "best bags" lasts maybe a year with regular use and costs less then you look at the cost of those compared to buying a new bagless or two every year, so in my opinion, despite the problems associated with polypropylene bags, a bagged vac is the best and cheapest way to go, because when you change the bag, you're also changing the filter...
I'm going to get back to eating my fried chicken now...
