I believe your experience is not normal or maybe it’s a model thing. But consumer reports only likes sharks up rights and my own anecdotal experience ( I lived in a 3 story townhouse and carrying them up and down the stairs was very much a first world problem for my admitted smaller wife) would tend to agree with the results. The only two I returned was the shark on raw suction power. It simply did not clean as well on both wood or carpet. The Samsung got nearly everything first pass on our carpet. Inlaws have a mieli they love but…idk they are the nice kind of boomers, so🤷♂️. CR agreed with them though.
I guess if anything do not buy because of brand name and look at the model.
I believe your experience is not normal or maybe it’s a model thing. But consumer reports only likes sharks up rights and my own anecdotal experience ( I lived in a 3 story townhouse and carrying them up and down the stairs was very much a first world problem for my admitted smaller wife) would tend to agree with the results. The only two I returned was the shark on raw suction power. It simply did not clean as well on both wood or carpet. The Samsung got nearly everything first pass on our carpet. Inlaws have a mieli they love but…idk they are the nice kind of boomers, so🤷♂️. CR agreed with them though.
I guess if anything do not buy because of brand name and look at the model.