Customer Reviews

Hamilton Beach TrueAir 04712 Allergen Reducing Filter

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This filter does not need to be replaced every 120 days. You can get by, by vacuuming it and reuse it a few times. Compared to the price of other filters, this filter is fairly inexpensive. Currently, Amazon has the `Buy 4, Get 1 Free' deal on this. With that noted, I have tried Daniel Sessoms' suggestion (found in TrueAir 04712 filter review) on how to make the "Hamilton Beach TrueAir 04381 Allergen Reducer" purifier more HEPA-like. What I did was add a carbon filter to the TrueAir 04712 Filter by purchasing the "Honeywell 38002 Enviracare Universal Replacement Pre-Filter" (an inexpensive carbon filter). From just one Honeywell 38002 carbon filter, I was able to cut up 12 pieces for the TrueAir 04712 filter (The cut up pieces of carbon filter factor to be only $0.65 a piece based on price I purchased at). Next, I just simply tape one piece of the cut up Honeywell 38002 carbon filter to the front side of the TrueAir 04712 filter with regular masking tape (taped up edges to filter). The carbon filter will now act as an extra layer of filter, to prevent dust & also clean up some odor.

Every 120 days (or whenever carbon filter turns `gray' due to dust accumulation), I would just remove & throw away the carbon filter, but keep the actual TrueAir 04712 filter (to reuse again). I vacuum the dust off the TrueAir 04712 filter, and tape a new piece of carbon filter to the same side of TrueAir 04712 filter as before. This is to prevent dust on the filter, in case my vacuum didn't pick them all up, from getting suck back into my room again. And when putting back the filter into the purifier, I would make sure to leave the carbon filter facing outward. After doing this carbon filter add-on to the filter, the Hamilton Beach TrueAir 04381 purifier does seem to work better. At least now, not only does it remove dust & pollen, it can also remove odors.

First, I must say that I loved the Hamilton Beach TrueAir 04381 Allergen Reducer Air Cleaner and it was great for all my needs. You would have found my glowing review on Amazon, which I am now deleting.

They have discontinued not only this unit (which is an acceptable move for a better model), but they also ended the proprietary filters that are required to use it! I have two of these $80 units and paid the $19 price for the replacement filters, because the combo worked better than anything I have ever tried. Of course, now there is some greedy third party merchants here inflating the price on their filter overstock to almost twice the price. But you can get the units for next to nothing.

The discontinuing of the filters is just completely unacceptable, and I will NEVER buy anything connected to Hamilton Beach, "TrueAir" or "Febreze" (all connected companies) again.

I did call Hamilton Beach to inquire about the filters, and of course you get a clueless rep that knows nothing about their products. The filter is listed on their site, if you dig, but you will notice you cannot order it. It is marked discontinued. However, on the phone, I was offered the filter at an outrageous price. ONE filter, with their obnoxious shipping costs, tax etc would cost almost $40... and you would think that buying more would reduce shipping... but no. It almost doubles. If I were able to buy the filters at the normal price with normal shipping, I would have accepted the inconvenience. But this is just disreputable and abusive to the consumer.

With all the people that bought this unit, you must think about all of electronic and plastic waste, environmental repercussions, and the fact that they are all landfill that will never go away.

Spread the word and dry up the Hamilton Beach.

The filter and the system work very well for me. I find the H-B model 04381 a very quiet unit, and it runs 24/7 (on low) in my bedroom. Here is a hint, for those who would like near-HEPA performance: Fabricate & install a charcoal pre-filter when installing a new main filter. You can get these at Sears or other places that sell home air filters & supplies: Honeywell Universal Replacement Pre-filter #38002. Cut a piece to size, tape it to the new filter on the air inlet side. Secure it well all around the edges. I like that new blue masking tape, it works really well and does not dry out (at least when it is not exposed to excessive heat or sunlight).

As a bonus, you get an automatic change indicator: When the black charcoal pre-filter turns grey, it is time for a replacement.

As other reviewers have commented, this seller does not provide the item pictured. I did not get the same Hamilton Beach True Air 3M replacement filter pictured and advertised here, that I had previously purchased in brick-and-mortar stores. Instead I got cheap, generic knock-offs. As per Amazon policy, I first contacted the seller directly asking for a full refund, including my shipping charges, since I would not have ordered this item in the first place if I had known I would not get the item pictured. The seller never responded. I had to go through Amazon and exercise the A-to-Z guarantee to get my refund. I appreciate Amazon's excellent customer service in honoring their guarantee in a timely fashion and in refunding both the product costs and shipping costs. But I am surprised and disappointed that, with all the complaints this seller gets, Amazon allows the seller to still operate through the Amazon website.

I ordered Hamilton Beach TrueAir 04712 Allergen Reducing Filters. The price was not cheap and shipping charges were exorbitant for something that weighs little more than a large envelope. To top it off I was shipped a cheap knock off that I could have purchased for less than half the price at another website.

Allergy Be Gone is a total rip-off and I do not understand how they can stay in business operating in this unethical manner.

As other reviewers have noted, this is not the advertised Hamilton Beach filter, but rather a generic. I'm not sure what the seller has to gain by misrepresenting this product because the game's up as soon as you open the box. As to whether the products functions as well as the HB original I can't say. But I'd certainly think twice about ordering from this company in the future.

This product has been miss represented. First the picture of a True Air filter is not correct... you get something that is called a Hamilton Beach Replacement filter and it is not what is pictured. What is actually pictured and what you think you are ordering is not the product that you get! What you get is a cheap cut up ac filter put in a card board pkt to fit the Hamilton Beach. It is not any good and lasts less than 2 weeks. It has wire on it just like some of the bigger ac filters that are cheap. It is labled a "Best air" filter. It is not a Hepa filter. So don't buy from this company. There are other company's out there that sell this fake filter much cheaper. If the only thing out there are these cheap "knockoff's" then pay the cheaper price and pay for what you are getting ...not much.

We have had our Hamilton TrueAir Purifier for four years and loved them. This Hamilton Beach TrueAir Replacement Filter is not the filter you have purchased in the past. It is a flimsy, lesser quality filter than what was originally sold as the TrueAir Hamilton Beach with Filtrete Media by 3M (Filter Part Number 04712). The description of this product is misleading.

I was expecting to receive the 04712 3m TrueAir filter but instead received an RPS Products 'BestAir' (HD712). This shouldn't be advertised as the original if you're actually getting a replacement filter.

I realize I'm reviewing the company "Allergy Be Gone" and not the actual product, but this is to warn people. This company is trying to profit by selling a knock-off of an original product that is in short supply without specifying this in the description. I'm pretty sure this practice is illegal considering the product photo shows the original 3M Filtrete logo. As far as the actual product though, I can tell its quality is inferior to the original 3M filter that came with the unit.