12" Oscillating Table Fan

Customer Rating:
Summary: Very quiet, kind of plastic-y, first order arrived broken
Comment: I've only had this fan for a few weeks, but here's my take so far. First, it arrived broken - a cap used to hold the top of the fan to the base was broken when it arrived. Amazon immediately shipped me a new one, but the breakage only added to my concern that this is a fan made of plastic, and it feels cheap. It works, so far, and it's inexpensive, and it is very quiet for a fan, so those are the pluses. My first fan of this type, these oscillating fans, I got from a hardware store 20 years ago. The thing worked for 18 years, then died. It was metal. These new fans feel cheaper, and I have a hard time imagining them working for 20 years (got a fan from a different company a few years back and it died after 2 to 3 years). No idea how long this one will last, and it is inexpensive, so we'll see.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Great fan - hasn't been turned off for 4 months
Comment: I think this fan is great because it hasn't given me any problems. The footprint is a little large but overall good fan.

Customer Rating:
Summary: 12 inch oscillating table fan way too loud!!
Comment: I bought this fan because some of the reviews said it was quiet. If you have any trouble sleeping and noise makes it worse, it is very difficult to find a fan quiet enough not to disturb you. I can never use any fan unless it's on low, but I couldn't even use this one on that setting. I gave it to my daughter in return for an old fan I had given her, that was much more quiet.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Product Isn't Bad for the money
Comment: I purchased the fan to use at work. It was easy to put together for the most part, but almost all the parts are plastic. This caused me some problems when it came to the part used to secure the fan blades onto the fan. This part doesn't come pre-threaded so you have to basically force it onto the screw. And for me, I couldn't get a snug-enough fit for the fan to be quiet. I ended up taking the fan apart, folding up a paper towel, putting a hole in the center of the towel, putting it on the screw and then putting the plastic piece back on again. After I did this, the fan was amazingly quiet.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Not what was promied
Comment: This fan was reported to be very quiet and reliable, but after I put it together (not a hard task at all), it was considerably noisier than I had hoped. It was about as noisy as other small table fans I've bought. Not terrible, but certainly not the soft hush I had hoped for. The biggest problem was that the fan only worked on two of the three motor speeds!!! Even if it created a strong breeze, the lack of quiet and the defective speeds don't make it a great bargain.