Best Vornado V6 Flippi Personal Fan, Small, Midnight Blue

Vornado V6 Flippi Personal Fan, Small, Midnight Blue
Vornado introduces an innovative personal air circulator with chic style! The V6 Flippi, although compact, creates powerful air flow and uses a 2 speed control provides the perfect breeze. When not in use, it can also fold down to conceal the fan. With its sleek, high-gloss finish, modern design and whisper quiet functionality, the Flippi will add sophistication and flair to your home or office, but no noise!

Customer Review: Great fan. Disappointing customer service

I ordered the midnight blue version of this fan for my desk at work. When I turned it on for the first time it shorted out. I sent an E-mail to Vornado customer service but never received a reply. I called them a week later and they agreed to send UPS to pick up the defective fan and ship a new one to me. After a month went by and I still had not received a replacement fan. I called customer service again and they told me that they had received my fan and were not sure why the replacement fan had not been sent. They sent one to me the following week. My frustration continued when I opened the new fan to find that they had sent me the Rainddrop (teal green) color. I assume that the Midnight Blue version is no longer available but would have expected Vornado to give me the option to choose a new color instead of choosing for me. The fan works great and because I was desperate for a fan at work so I just kept it vs. dealing with the hassle of returning it again. I figure summer would be over by the time they got it all straightened out. If they had given me the option I probably would have paid to upgrade to the V8 version to get it in black.

Customer Review: It is what it is

I figured I'd write a review, because I feel this little fan has gotten some undue bad press.
For what it is, it is a very good little fan. It's very small, and sleek looking. Within 15 minutes of bringing it into my office cubicle, someone commented on how "cool" it looked.
Beyond the aesthetics of the fan, it produces a nice breeze on the low setting, which is virtually silent. Nothing that powerful, but you can definitely feel the breeze up to five feet away or so. The high setting seems to about double or triple the air moved, but it does produce a slight motor noise. Nothing too loud. At five feet away or so, it's just a low hum. Anything beyond that, and you can't really hear it.
For me, it is exactly what I was looking for. A quiet fan that lowers the temperature by a couple degrees and moves air around.

Pros:

- Virtually silent on the lowest setting

- Perfect for an office environment

- Looks "cool"

- Rotates on its base, so I don't have to pick it up to point it in a different direction.

Cons:

- High setting is arguably loud (it's acceptable in my environment)

- It's not a power house fan (if you just had a two hour work out session, this fan isn't going to cool you down much)

- It takes two hands to change between off/high/low settings, since it swivels on its base, and a dial controls speeds (one hand to hold it from swiveling, and another to turn the dial)