The world's most expensive vacuum cleaner
Announced last month, The Crystal Ergoripado is a €15,000 vacuum cleaner. Electrolux Floorcare reports that it's been approached by the Guinness people, who believe that it may be the world's most expensive. Made from recycled parts, the one-off vac was created by Polish fashion designer Łukasz Jemioł, who decorated it with 3,730 Swarovski crystals.
No surprise, that inspired by its beautiful form we decided to create something extraordinary – a unique Ergorapido decorated with crystals from CRYSTALLIZED™ - Swarovski Elements collection. To make it even more special, we have chosen black Ergorapido from limited Black&White edition. We established cooperation with Łukasz Jemioł, a young polish fashion designer who is the author of the decoration conception, and Gronowalski Crystal Fashion, the company that carried out the project.
It'll be on show, along with the company's 2009 model lineup, at the Good Housekeeping Institute in London on March 17th.
From our earlier post on it, here's commenter Redshirt77:
I would love to see the venn diagram of the people who can afford luxury vacuum cleaners and their overlap with people that do their own vacuuming.
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No way, my old vacuum cleaner that I declared as worth $100,000 for the Buy My Shitpile "rescue plan" is the world's most expensive vacuum cleaner.
What is so fucking great about Swarovski crystals anyway? Why do we always have to be reading about them here? What's wrong with good old Johnson crystals, or even Brand-X for that matter? ;)
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Does it work 500 times as well as a Dyson?
The Venn diagram was brilliant!
(I recently had a conversation with a coworker whose friend Vin was throwing a party but wasn't sure how his 2 distinct groups of friends would react to each other.
Sometimes, I think maybe the universe really does care about me, at least enough to set me up for an extremely nerdy joke.)
@4: it's an Electrolux, so it sucks 500 times more than a dyson. (but not in the good way.)
Records for "world's most expensive whatever" seem a little stupid. Now, world's tallest vacuum cleaner, that I would like to see. Or most powerful, or thinnest, or something tangible.
#1: exactly. The price is set by the record claimant.
#7 Well they should only count if they can actually persuade somebody to PAY it.
Once upon a time you could donate your car and claim the full blue book value of it as a deduction on your taxes, despite the fact that it was a burnt out hulk half embedded in a riverbank.
Now, you can only claim the amount the charity can actually sell it for.
I propose that Guinness use this standard - the highest selling price, not the highest asking price.
Because if they don't, then I'm having a garage sale this weekend where everything is a bajillionkajillon dollars and twenty-three cents. I'll even print out the price tags.
Also, Swarovski Crystals are just little lumps of glass. Little lumps of glass and marketing. Lots and lots of marketing. And lead. Can't forget the lead. But mostly marketing.
I wonder if they chose a really poor quality vacuum cleaner on purpose, or if they are just ignorant?
Either way, makes it funnier!
Martha Stewart likes to vacuum when she's baked.
It's obviously a terrible vacuum. It wasn't even able to pick up those beads surrounding it in the first picture!
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That's because the vacuum is designed to sweep up the swine, not the pearls cast. ;D
I'd love to have a custom pendant made of a shark, with a Swarovski crystal leaping over it. I'd wear it to all the Milanese fashion cons.
Venn diagram needs also: "People who REALLY love their cleaners".
Venn diagram carried the lols out the office and into reception. Hiwawious!
The formula for "world's most expensive" things seems to be: 1) Get a thing. 2) Stick Swarovski crystals or diamonds or gold all over it. None of these ever seem to be expensive because of quality or craftmanship, so much as because they've got expensive junk stuck to them. Why not skip all the effort and just tape €15,000 to the side of a vacuum? It'll be just about as tasteful and attractive as this is.
@ #17- Yeah, exactly. Swarovski crystals are just a fancy marketing term for cut glass. That's all they are. So people are paying for a cut leaded glass encrusted plastic vaccuum. Sounds crapware to me. No, in fact, this gives crapware a bad name, because some people actually want crapware.
Strange, even back when plastic was invented, it wasn't considered "valuable" per se. It soon became just a material, one that reflected CHEAPNESS. It has always reflected cheap.
Aluminum isn't a big deal anymore, right? Right. But for a long while, it was more valuable than gold because it was so hard to process. Napoleon gave guests sets of aluminum cutlery then. So I could see, maybe, a solid aluminum vaccuum covered with these, or diamonds, and that might be worth it to someone.
But glass encrusted plastic? I mean, do you even need a brain to figure that one out? As P.T. Barnum said, "there's one born every minute". The sad thing is, some shmuck will buy this to show off their wealth, even using the lack of quality as some sort of quantifier for how much they can afford to spend on useless crap.
I find this abhorrent!
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You could link it to that those top 9 weird PSA videos.
Venn diagram of people on meth, people with clean apartments...
Swarovski crystals
Shorthand for "This is going to be hideous and stupid."
"Crushed glass" is our usual dismissive reference for Swarovski crystals. Once in a while, though, we find that it speaks for itself.
Okay, the maid's got one. What about the gardener's leaf blower?
even if i was the richest girl in the world I'll never think of buying this vacuum
I don't think it's worth buying
#9:
Diamonds are just little lumps of crystalline carbon, tiny amounts of contaminants, and marketing. Otherwise artificial diamonds would be considered perfectly acceptable for expensive jewelry (and more people would have ridiculous bling).
I doff my hat to the maniac marketer responsible for the Swarovski Crystals phenomenon (natural diamonds are at least hard to dig up), but I consider both products equally ridiculous.
I have yet to see a blinged-out vacuum cleaner that beats the one a classmate created in art school (~1992). That upright had genuine steer horns, faux-zebra skin dust bag, ball-fringe and rhinestones. I think there were rhinestones, maybe it just glitters in my memories. It was beautiful in an awful way.
This one? I think I saw a kit for it at Walgreens, right between the Aqua Globes and the cell phone bling kits.