I'm torn with this product - while it does a great job in terms of suction and cleaning, it's just so cumbersome! We have two cats and a very fluffy dog, so spend a lot of time vacuuming. We also live in an inner city apartment. This is probably stupid on our part, as this vacuum is just not easily storable or movable. It makes vacuuming fairly tiring, and the vacuum sits in the laundry in plain sight. I do think it's power and performance is great, but it's probably more suited for people with multiple, generous storage space.

Had this vacuum for a few years now. Still works great and hasn't had noticeable loss in suction or performance. It is incredibly good on carpets but can be hard to maneuver and I'd recommend some ear plugs to protect your hearing. For vacuuming in hard to reach places or high up it's decent with the long extension tube but the whole vacuum is likely to follow with you (poor design). We vacuum mostly just 2 carpeted bedrooms and that is enough to need to need to empty it out.

Good product except for emptying mechanism on the canister. Expensive but managed to purchase it when on promotion from the Good guys. A relatively heavy vacuum but the round body is easy to manoeuvre around the house. We have used on a variety of floors, unfortunately it is quite noisy.

Our baby started crawling and we were very anxious about the cleanliness of our carpet. The dyson suction kept our carpet spotless with performance reliable each and every time. The only downfall was the bulkiness of the item which made it hard to store. I would check if you have the floor space to store it. Worth every cent!

Happy with the product, has excellent suction power. the only downside is that its is heavy and bit hard to maneuver. so i wont recommend it for old people. And the dust tank is also not that big, it requires to be emptied out after couple of use for a full 4 bedroom home. 200msq home. Overall good vacuum with great suction.

Great vacuum cleaner for carpets. Little heavier than it should be hopeless for cleaning carpet under beds as the attachments supplied are useless. Had to use old power head off our old worn out DC23 which would work well if it was not worn out. The fittings are the same and Dyson should supply something like this instead. Also the attachment hose is a nightmare to us as it sucks back in.

Have always used a bagged vacuum and heard that the Dyson is very powerful with good suction. Decided to get one while there was a sale on and have been using it for some months now. It is a very powerful vacuum with good suction with many different heads for different purposes. The only negative is the clearing of the vacuum as its not an convenient as a bagged machine.

Dyson Ball Animal DC65.
Good and very useful thing. We are using it for a 3 months - great quality.
Lightweight and easy to use. Very powerful, seems to do an excellent job with getting all dirt and finer particles. Does a good job at picking up bigger things like my candy. Very easy to empty. Overall I would say it is a great vacuum and that's why 4 stars. I would say good, but not great value.
As I heard Dyson service center very good and their customer service department is very helpful.

I bought my Dyson exactly 6 years ago, over the 6 years everything that could be replaced has already been replaced!
Today it finally fell to pieces, literally, it is lying on my garage floor in bits! I am so disappointed, I thought it might last a bit longer, given I paid almost $900 for it! Well I guess I actually paid more for it as I had to pay for a new barrel and a new foot! Never again!

The only good thing I have to say about this vacume is that the ball part gives great moveability and that’s about it !!!! This is my 2nd Dyson and I have to say I don’t think I’d buy Dyson again !!! Plastics on this one in particular were no where near as good a quality as my last and parts have broken surprisingly, to which I had to pay to replace when obviously if it were made with better quality plastic I’d not have had the issue !!!

Dyson have got us to a stage where we will never purchase another product. Such a shame but is very common view among people we know. Stopped working, took it to be repaired under warranty. Cost us $150 anyway. Apparently they did us a favour!! No one got back to us we had to keep ringing, apparently dust was blocking the filters. Who would think a vacuum would be used for collecting DUST??? OHH maybe you can only use it on floors that are clean?? Good bye Dyson....

It's pretty maneuverable in use, but the whole thing falls back over when you try to stand it upright unless you make sure to REALLY firmly click the handle in place. The extension hose tube (used for the attachments) is also really fiddly and will not always lock back into position either.

We now both agree that we dislike it - with a passion!

Worst vauccum I ever brought, hard to manoeuvre, falls over when you try to stand it upright, takes so long to put the extension tube back in its place and fiddly, not and easy vacuum to use.

Don’t waste your money there are better vacuums out there, the cheap plastic attachments, the brushes all look worn out and I have only had it a few month.

I HATE IT I brought it because of my dogs and that I had a 10 disc spinal fusion thinking it would be easy to use, sadly it’s not, I should have got the Dyson Cinetic Big Ball Animal As I have used this at a friends place, it’s easy to use and manoeuvre.

We have floor boards and I wouldn’t say it is the best of these as it leaves small scratches. Great for carpet. Have used the extension down the stairs and it works ok but I have large stairs so pulling the extension to far out creates drama with the weight of the vacuum

It does a good job of vacuuming and is better than most other normal vacuums I have had, it is not as good as a Rainbow vacuum, I find cleaning it hard as there is a lot of dust that does not come out which i have to try and extract by tapping container over sink, would not buy Dyson again.