Ideal World "efficient" electric radiators

amiaspden

The Ideal World shopping channel is currently selling 600W electric radiators - for £600 each!! And this is apparently a bargain price, they are supposed to be £800! They can only offer this special price because they are selling so many, but the offer is limited so hurry, hurry, hurry!

rogerblack

amiaspden wrote: »

The Ideal World shopping channel is currently selling 600W electric radiators - for £600 each!! And this is apparently a bargain price, they are supposed to be £800! They can only offer this special price because they are selling so many, but the offer is limited so hurry, hurry, hurry!

Comedic !!!!!!!!.
http://www.orionairsales.co.uk/toshiba-air-conditioning-ras-b10skvp-25kw--8250btu-inverter-490-p.asp - for example is 899 (and will probably require installation) but is 500% efficient compared to those heaters, and puts out way more heat.

Uses about 500W, while putting out 2.5kW. (at 7C outside temp)

Other than that - these heaters are just as efficient as a 20 quid job from argos.

amiaspden

Scary, though. They've got "experts" on there explaining why they're so much better than central heating and lots of viewers will be gullible enough to believe them. I didn't hear any mention of why they were supposed to be better than a cheapo convector or oil-filled radiator before I had to switch over out of sheer disgust.

rogerblack

amiaspden wrote: »

Scary, though. They've got "experts" on there explaining why they're so much better than central heating and lots of viewers will be gullible enough to believe them. I didn't hear any mention of why they were supposed to be better than a cheapo convector or oil-filled radiator before I had to switch over out of sheer disgust.

http://www.asa.org.uk/Consumers/How-to-complain.aspx

Please do.

penrhyn

That traitor Dyson was flogging £400 fan heaters on QVC last week.

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