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126 of 140 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
AVOID, June 6, 2003
This review is from: Sharper Image Ionic Breeze 3.0 Compact Silent Air Purifier (SI397) (Kitchen)
I purchased this after an informercial. My warrenty was for 3 years. Lucky for me, since 14 months after receiving the unit it died with no warning. The manufacture made me return it AT MY OWN EXPENSE and then they sent me a new unit. Took 2 months. Well, the new unit arrived 8 days ago. It died an hour ago. I called the customer service and refused to pay to send it back AGAIN. They ARE sending me out a new unit (again), but it will take up to 10 business days to receive. They agreed to send a pre-paid shipping label this time too. (Could take a month though.) Meanwhile, I have nothing. After reading the reviews below, I could have kicked myself. I subscribe to the online version of Consumer Reports so did what another did...looked it up. Consumer Reports says this Ionic Breeze only "removes a few particles from the air", nothing else. They also did the test, as the infomercial showed, of putting the Breeze in an enclosed space with smoke and turned it on. It did NOT do what the infomercial said. It did not "power through smoke". It did nothing. I am taking the advice of Consumer Reports. I am refunding my money on the Breeze and purchasing "the high-scoring Friedrich C-90A and Whirlpool AP45030HO models" which DOES work...and work well. Avoid the Ionic Breeze unit, for the home AND/OR the car.
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42 of 49 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Like coming home to Sunshine!, December 15, 2002
This review is from: Sharper Image Ionic Breeze 3.0 Compact Silent Air Purifier (SI397) (Kitchen)
I bought it, took it out of the box, plugged it in and turned it on. I was very happy! At first. Then the thing stated to make hissing noises as if to indicate it was not happy. I turned it upside down as the instructions suggest to free debris from the wires. It went silent for a day or so. When the machine worked It was great, my home smelled fresh and clean -sort of the way my favorite shirt would smell after leaving it by a swimming pool all day in Palm Springs. Clean/nice smell. The bad news; just after the warrenty expired the thing just died! This consumer was NOT happy with the "ionic breeze." I have no Ions nor breezes just a worthless piece of plastic sitting on my living room floor. My opinion would be they're too fragile or poorly made just now. DON'T WAISTE YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
OK, but that's all., November 16, 2006
This review is from: Sharper Image Ionic Breeze 3.0 Compact Silent Air Purifier (SI397) (Kitchen)
I have a problem with most air cleaners. As a light sleeper, the fan noise will wake me up in the middle of the night and I find it hard to get back to sleep. I went through a number of filters and ended up giving all of them away. The Ionic Breeze had the selling point of no fans so I tried one. I also live in a small apartment so the fan noise is much more noticable then in a house.
It's absolutely true, the unit makes almost no noise. That's until it gets clogged with dirt or lint and starts to hiss, pop and whistle. Then it's as noisy as the fan powered filters. And sometimes cleaning the unit makes no difference, you just have to live with the noise until it goes away on it's own. Also some very small moths seem to be attacted to the collection plates, get electrocuted and the bodies stick to the plates.
The dirt it captures is very fine not the fluffy clods of dust you get on ordinary filters so it's probably not capturing as much. It doesn't do much for cigarrette smoke but lighting candles will cause a film of wax to adhere to the collection plates. The wax can destroy the plates so it's recommended to not run the filter while burning candles.
I have three units and am just barely satisfied with them but since a regular air filter will cause me sleep problems I guess they are better then nothing. Until someone invents better silent air filter, I'm sticking with these.
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