Article: United we sell.(reader Mail)(Letter to the Editor)

I was running through the TV channels this weekend, and my eyes and ears tuned into the paid commercial by Sharper Image, selling their electronic air cleaner. Being in the HVAC business and selling electronic air cleaners for the last 20-plus years, I was quite impressed how well this standalone cleaner was marketed and how this product was the answer in solving the consumers' problems to indoor air quality. The product was put up against a HEPA filter. The commercial did not let the consumer know the benefits to the HEPA over their product, but pointed out hew noisy the stand-alone HEPA was and how much more energy it consumes over their unit.

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