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$349.99
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Costco Wholesale has for their Members: Dyson Ball Animal 3+ Upright Vacuum for $279.99. Shipping is $8.99.

Thanks to Community Member shankyjammy for finding this deal.

Includes:
  • Vacuum cleaner
  • Combination tool
  • Stair tool
  • Tangle-free turbine tool
  • Tool holder
Features:
  • De-tangling technology. Automatically clears wrapped hair from the brush bar as you clean.
  • Ball technology. Navigate around obstacles with a simple turn of the wrist. For easy, precise maneuvering around your home.
  • 3 cleaning modes. Select the right cleaning mode for the right task. Optimized for a variety of tasks, for complete control over your clean.
  • Engineered for larger homes with pets. Removes dirt, allergens and pet hair around your home. Easily tackles big messes.
  • 3 Dyson-Engineered accessories. Stair tool and combination tool
  • Advanced, whole-machine filtration. Whole-machine filtration ensures that allergens are trapped inside the machine, not expelled back into the home.
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Costco has Dyson ball animal 3 for $279.99.
Original price $349.99

Features:
Ball Technology for Smooth Navigation
Automatically Clears Wrapped Hair From the Brush Bar As You Clean
3 Cleaning Modes. Optimized for a Variety Of Tasks
3 Dyson Engineered Accessories
Engineered For Larger Homes With Pets

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I've owned this for about 8 months now. Things to know:

- It's REALLY powerful. You'll get dirt out of your carpet that you didn't know you had.
- It's so powerful because it forms a 'sealed' chamber around the brush roller
- The downside to that sealed chamber is it will suck up any thin or lightweight rugs instantly. There's no power setting to tone it down a bit. You can turn the brush rollers off though.
- It's not compatble with high pile carpet/rugs. The brushes will stop.
- The build quality is suprisingly poor. The plastic creaks, things that look like handles aren't for carrying the vacuum around.
- The chord is VERY long, which I like. You can plug it in a central location and reach nearly every room on the floor.
- It's easy to empty, but debris tends to get stuck in the filter quite a bit (especially pet hair). You may have to dig it out with your hand.
- The attachments work very well. If you have a dog the lint brush attachement will keep your couch nice and clean.
- It's a bit heavy, and like I said, the built quality makes you feel like you need to baby it when you lift it up.
- Everything is modular on it, so it's easy to repair and service.

All in all, I like the performance, but I don't think I'd buy another one. Similar models by Shark are made with better materials and have similar performance.
If you have Ruggable rugs, you will need to buy an aftermarket attachment. If not, the suction just sucks up the rugs.
Dyson stick suck a little, Dyson balls suck a lot.

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fritzo
04-06-2024 at 03:31 PM.
04-06-2024 at 03:31 PM.
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Does the cord wind up?
It has a cord wrap- you flip a tab and wrap it around the back of the handle.
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BabyTantrum
04-07-2024 at 12:41 AM.
04-07-2024 at 12:41 AM.
Quote from suifengls :
Dyson.com has the same product for $299, and extra 4 free accessories (stating worth ~$150).

I am struggling which one to buy:
1. Costco for $280, with extra Tangle-free turbine tool
2. Dyson for $299, with extra Soft dusting brush, multi-angle brush, articulating hard floor tool, and carbon fiber soft dusting brush.

I think main question is: how useful are the extra tools.
Adding to your question. I have old Dyson attachments for a Dyson ball, will they still be compatible. They would be about 8 years old now.
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04-07-2024 at 02:00 AM.
04-07-2024 at 02:00 AM.
Sucky Protip: I have an older Dyson ball, from 2019, I had the same problem with too much suction on high pile rugs. There's a 3d printed piece that can attach to the brush head to lift or break the strong seal allowing you to move easier on high pile rugs.
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04-07-2024 at 03:45 AM.
04-07-2024 at 03:45 AM.
Is it in warehouse cheaper or at least to avoid shipping cost?
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millertimexmatt
04-07-2024 at 04:47 AM.
04-07-2024 at 04:47 AM.
Quote from suifengls :
Dyson.com has the same product for $299, and extra 4 free accessories (stating worth ~$150).

I am struggling which one to buy:
1. Costco for $280, with extra Tangle-free turbine tool
2. Dyson for $299, with extra Soft dusting brush, multi-angle brush, articulating hard floor tool, and carbon fiber soft dusting brush.

I think main question is: how useful are the extra tools.

The articulating hard floor tool is awesome for hard surfaces. The others I don't use often, but they do have their time and place.
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04-07-2024 at 05:02 AM.
04-07-2024 at 05:02 AM.
Quote from suifengls :
Dyson.com has the same product for $299, and extra 4 free accessories (stating worth ~$150).

I am struggling which one to buy:
1. Costco for $280, with extra Tangle-free turbine tool
2. Dyson for $299, with extra Soft dusting brush, multi-angle brush, articulating hard floor tool, and carbon fiber soft dusting brush.

I think main question is: how useful are the extra tools.
Just a heads-up that I would never, ever buy directly from Dyson and I personally have no desire to buy anything made by them in the future. Costco and the return policy would be the only way. I literally just finished a credit card dispute from a Black Friday deal on their Airwrap hair curlers where they would not respond to a return request. QVC had a better deal. I reached out to their customer service every other week over the past 5 months to use their 30 day return policy and would get random replies on everything from whether I want a price match to "can you confirm you want us to send you a UPS return label". It is my understanding that they outsourced everything including customer service and it has not went well for them. Checkout the BBB complaints at https://www.bbb.org/us/il/chicago...4-33004452 before you buy directly with them...
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04-07-2024 at 05:45 AM.
04-07-2024 at 05:45 AM.
Having owned one of these I can tell you that one of the good things is that parts are readily available to repair. Even the tiny wheels on the bottom. Yo ucan also get new hoses/hose parts, filters etc which are comparable with the OEM off Amazon for cheap.
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c_licious
04-07-2024 at 08:21 AM.
04-07-2024 at 08:21 AM.
Quote from fritzo :
I've owned this for about 8 months now. Things to know:

- It's REALLY powerful. You'll get dirt out of your carpet that you didn't know you had.
- It's so powerful because it forms a 'sealed' chamber around the brush roller
- The downside to that sealed chamber is it will suck up any thin or lightweight rugs instantly. There's no power setting to tone it down a bit. You can turn the brush rollers off though.
- It's not compatble with high pile carpet/rugs. The brushes will stop.
- The build quality is suprisingly poor. The plastic creaks, things that look like handles aren't for carrying the vacuum around.
- The chord is VERY long, which I like. You can plug it in a central location and reach nearly every room on the floor.
- It's easy to empty, but debris tends to get stuck in the filter quite a bit (especially pet hair). You may have to dig it out with your hand.
- The attachments work very well. If you have a dog the lint brush attachement will keep your couch nice and clean.
- It's a bit heavy, and like I said, the built quality makes you feel like you need to baby it when you lift it up.
- Everything is modular on it, so it's easy to repair and service.

All in all, I like the performance, but I don't think I'd buy another one. Similar models by Shark are made with better materials and have similar performance.

All good points and mirror my experience with this model. Two more thing worth mentioning are

1) because of the ball design it needs higher clearance to fit under furniture than other vacuums. It would not fit under our bed and couches where other vacuums we owned fit easily.

2) The attachment hose is a bit cumbersome so access. I frequently like to use the attachment hose to pick up bigger junk that would get stuck in the brush head or to quickly vacuum a baseboard or corner or spider web on the ceiling etc. With other vacuums we owned you can quickly disconnect the hose for fast and convenient access. I found the Dyson design more difficult. It's fine if you don't go back and forth frequently but for our use it was a noticeable downside.

We ended up returning ours, mostly because of the two points above and the lack of adjustable suction which made it very hard to push on our medium pile carpet.
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04-07-2024 at 09:32 AM.
04-07-2024 at 09:32 AM.
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I personally have a shark now but recent reviews of any sharks of late don't tout reliability..

I've seen people complain about Sharks for years. They always tout on how Sharks are designed to be the BIC lighters of the vacuum world. In my personal opinion, I think it's due to Shark's range of models. They have so many models in different price points. On the low end, it breaks because it is cheap. In the middle range, it breaks because the user may not know vacuum maintenance (Just something I noticed perusing rtings a bit and my experience with the Shark Navigator is you beed more maintenance), and high end, some models have the Shark's power fins, which I have heard bad things about for durability.
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04-07-2024 at 09:25 PM.
04-07-2024 at 09:25 PM.
I've had one for a year now (after my Shark Navigator finally died after 5 years) and its a beast but its also quite heavy so lugging it up and down the stairs (if you have them is a pain). The plastic creaking is a thing but mine hasn't cracked or broken. One of my biggest gripes is that the upright portion of the vacuum is a bit heavy so if you don't balance it well before walking away, the unit can tip over unexpectedly since it doesn't have one of those lock/unlock pedal things.
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04-08-2024 at 02:15 AM.
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Quote from woohoot :
I've had one for a year now (after my Shark Navigator finally died after 5 years) and its a beast but its also quite heavy so lugging it up and down the stairs (if you have them is a pain). The plastic creaking is a thing but mine hasn't cracked or broken. One of my biggest gripes is that the upright portion of the vacuum is a bit heavy so if you don't balance it well before walking away, the unit can tip over unexpectedly since it doesn't have one of those lock/unlock pedal things.
Finally died? 5 years doesn't seem like a very long time for a vac to last, especially one that retails for what? $200?
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04-10-2024 at 06:15 AM.
04-10-2024 at 06:15 AM.
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Is it in warehouse cheaper or at least to avoid shipping cost?

I purchased it from the warehouse for $279.99.
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04-11-2024 at 07:11 AM.
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While I generally only use my cordless dyson anymore, this is still the King for power cleaning.
Biggest con is it is pretty heavy.
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04-12-2024 at 11:35 AM.
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Very very powerful best for carpets
Downside is you can not use it with other extensions
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