Hyla Vacuum - The HYLA NST is overpriced and their presentation to people in their homes is a scam.
- by Naturebeckles May 02, 2010
- Review #: 180578
| Company | Hyla Vacuum |
| Product / Service | HYLA NST |
| Location | Akron, Ohio |
| Category | Appliances and Electronics |
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There is a product similar to the Rainbow vacuum that supposedly "water washes" your air and cleans it out and you can also purchase an attachment to clean your carpets and furniture with. This HYLA NST is between $2399.00 and $2799.00 to purchase. The Rainbow vacuum is half the price. Do not buy the HYLA NST, ever!
I was going to sell the HYLA and do demonstrations in peoples' homes. After the first day of "training", I got this sheet of paper with my presentation on it that I was supposed to personalize, but stick to all the "facts" in the paper. I did my research on all these "facts" and it's all a bunch of garbage and lies. They even said in our training that we had to make the problem in each person's home big enough to make this machine worth it to them to spend over two thousand dollars for.
They claim in this presentation there are 250 million dust mites in your mattress. A different website I pulled up says there are thousands. The people who are trying to sell you the HYLA claim that dust mites "are the cause of all itching, sneezing, scratching, coughing, and even pneumonia". they also claim dust and dust mites spread 90% of all airborn sickness. These claims are completely outrageous on many levels. First of all, dust mites do not cause anybody to itch, scratch, sneeze or cough unless that person is actually allergic to dust mites. And even then, most people are simply allergic to dust mite *** or dead dust mites. And people have to get allergy tests done to confirm this, because there are other things in the home like pet dander and etc, that might be causing the allergy. Even more outrageous than the claim that dust mights cause ALL of people's itching and sneezing is the claim that dust mites cause pneumonia. This is not true at all. Go to any medical website and ask the question "What causes penumonia?" and you will find two kinds of pneumonia's and their causes. You will not see dust mites mentioned at all... not even as a carrier of diseases.
Dust mites are not a parasite and they are not a carrier of diseases. There are ways to help minimize and control dust and dust mites in the home and I have links to a couple websites that list what you can do. None of them mention the HYLA or anything like the HYLA as a solution.
The people who sell the HYLA then claim the EPA says indoor air quality is the number one environmental problem in the country (not true, the EPA website says it's in the top five), and the allergy doctor (they don't say who) states there's only two ways to get rid of dust and dust mites. One way is to cover everything in your house in plastic and the other way is to buy a HYLA. That is also an outrageous claim. If you want to control dust mites in your home, it's not that difficult unless you live an area where it's warm and humid all year round. That's right. Dust mites love warm humid air. If the air in your house has less than 70% humidity, dust mites cannot thrive. Less than 50%, they become outright dormant. And remember, they're not a parasite or carrier of diseases..!. so only people who are allergic to them need to worry about controlling their population in their home/.
The EPA themselves gives guidelines on how to improve the indoor air quality in your home?. The two major things you can do are get rid of the source of air pollution (like chemicals and paints lying around that could be exposed to the air and contaminating it), and ventilation;. So, in the summer, your best bet is to open the windows and air out the house (provided your outdoor air isn't worse than your indoor air);. The EPA even states that air cleaners/filters alone cannot be a substitute for improving the air quality in your home.. They can help, but they aren't effective used alone..
Here are all my links that led me to find out about this scam the HYLA people are trying to convince consumers of so that they'll dish out over two thousand dollars|. Please save yourself two thousand dollars and don't spend it on this machine!
Sources:
http://www.epa.gov/iaq/pdfs/residential_air_cleaners.pdf
http://www.ehealthmd.com/library/pneumonia/PNM_causes.html
http://lancaster.unl.edu/pest/resources/dustmites311.shtml
http://www.aerias.org/DesktopModules/ArticleDetail.aspx?articleId=36 38b8d5a
Hyla distributor
Jun 11
Also not once do any of us lie about the hyla getting all bacteria, virus, or dust mites out of your surfaces, because that would be a lie; it does however get a vast majority of them out.
I genuinely love how my hyla has improved the cleanliness of my home.
Jay
Nov 16, 2012
Distributors are crooks
Sep 03, 2012
Hylacankissit
Aug 11, 2012
Brad
Jul 08, 2012
Rainbows are used in medical facilities all over the country as well as the University of Utah's research centers "clean room" (10,000 times cleaner than a hospital operating room). Where they develop electronic brain implants.
So, I'm sure Hyla is a great product. But it is a replication of the Rainbow, or a reimagining if you will, made outside of the US. I believe I will keep my wonderfully American made, time tested, modern research improved Rainbow!
As for all you sceptics of either machine, THE PROOF IS IN THE WATER!
HylaDealer
Jul 05, 2012
Happy Consumer
Mar 03 from Little Rock, Arkansas
Katie
Jun 23, 2012
Katie
Jun 23, 2012
Becky Murphy
Jun 09, 2012
I'm not saying the vacuum itself is not a good product. I'm saying they are falsely making dust mites to be an evil dangerous thing when they're not. (and for the absolute morons that say i don't know what I'm talking about need to go do the same research i did instead of acting like their salesmen knows it all). And I'm saying they're marketing for these vacuums is also based on falsehoods. They should be telling the truth about their vacuum and being honest. You are all spending energy about how great the vacuum is when my problem lies in the scam of how they're sold to begin with. I bet the air in your house is no cleaner than mine.
DranktheKoolaid
Jun 08, 2012
1. The product works great and should be sold legitimately at stores.
2. The way Mr Gassman set this pyramid scheme up is to make the distributors(owners of area Hyla companies) and dealers (people going to the demos)think they can get bigger and bigger. When the fact is you'll tap out your market real quick with the type of saturation they require of the dealers. And what Mr. Gassman doesn't tell them is that yes, you WILL hit a ceiling, because Gassman is the ONLY importer of this product. He is at the top of the pyramid.
So let me tell you what happens in the distributorships.
I'm in Lawrence Kansas and the guy that opened his own dist. here was from Joplin MO (McHall Systems aka Jackson Air) He did great selling and the more you sell, the more money he got in an AD account. (Area Distributor) The whole point of being a dealer like he was, was to BECOME a DISTUBTOR, not keep selling(dealer)Hylas.
When I was at the meeting in Tulsa, I noticed most the dealers had not been employed with the company for more than a couple months. All of the big wigs (Gassman, Adam Jackson etc) told us how we could make lots of money and if we didn't it was our fault. One sentence was made about the product itself. The whole thing was about making as much money as you can.
Dustmites
Jun 05, 2012
Jesse
May 03 from Toronto, Ontario
Karen
May 16, 2012
They are very comparable in price cause I bought both new
Paid over $2000 each. I was just talking earlier to a
Friend about how well my vacuum works I loved the
Power and cleaning of both. My daughter is still using the Rainbow
I bought in1993 I'm still using the Hyla I bought in 2007
They are very much alike. Sorry you don't agree take it from
A housewife
Rebecca
Apr 29, 2012
NOTHIN BUT RAINBOW BABY !!! :p
Apr 23, 2012
Elana
Mar 21, 2012
jason
Mar 19, 2012
fred in medford oregon
Feb 07, 2012
we are not all like the one you met. there are scammers in the banking, medical, and legal professions...wise up sir.
Samantha
Dec 27, 2011
I'm absolutely shocked that some of you think the Hyla build quality is better than Rainbow! Really? I mean, don't get me wrong, Hyla's look nice, but Rainbow's build quality is much better & they have the brushless motor.
Even still, If Rainbow didn't exist, I'd be using Hyla. My Rainbow has a hepa filter on it & the thing is STILL clean after a few years so the water is doing most of the filtering.
It's a SHAME such nice machines (Rainbow & Hyla) are sold the way they are which causes the price to go way up.
One thing we should note that at least Rainbow is made in the USA & has a track record of building machines that can last decades.
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