I gotta agree, look for a referb Dyson. I love my Dyson.... spent the $$$ for new one, but didn't realized how much until we had a bit of a problem with it and had to use our old vac for 3 days. Boy what a difference! I know it already had problems, that's why we needed something new, but wow, the way it moves, the poor suction, everything. After 2 days I told DH he better look at the Dyson or I'm going out to buy a new one (like I could afford the one we got as it was! :>) 10 min later ours was working again....