Is this a Vitamix?

[foraloysius]

I noticed Jack Lalanne has come out with a blender that looks pretty much the same as a Vitamix. The bottom of the container however looks different. Is this a relabeled Vitamix? Or just a cheap blender pretending to be an expensive one?

http://www.tvshopping24.com/cgi-bin/internationalshop/iboshop.cgi?showd600!0,279547417077068,9902282
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[volsboy1]

My Mom has one.There not bad at all it will heat soup on high and she LOVES IT.Plus the Fact that Vitamix is 500+ compared to what 150$$ I would not pay 500 for a blender.With the Vitamix your paying alot for the name as with everything else in life.

 

[foraloysius]

Thanks!

I found another blender online. It's a Hendi. This one looks even more than a Vitamix.

 

[petek]

The Jack LaLanne looks to be a Chinese knockoff but the Hendi looks to be a real Vita Mix rebadged.

There's more and more of these "copy" appliances showing up all the time. A store near us sells one that looks surprisngly like the K-Tec but it's not.

Don't you have enough blenders Louis ?

 

[charbee]

Have y'all seen...

...this craziness? These blenders are definitely "heavy duty"...Check out all the videos they have!

http://www.willitblend.com

 

[foraloysius]

No. LOL

The Hendi has an 850 Watts motor, doesn't sound very much for a Vitamix. Is this correct? I would love a blender that pulverizes raspberry seeds. Krups has a blender nowadays with an 1100 Watts motor. Until now I've resisted temptation to buy that one.

 

[foraloysius]

Yes, I've seen the Blendtec blenders, but they are not available here.

 

[tolivac]

The Vita Mix is WORTH its price-I have more than one.love these machines.I use mine on average at least twice per day.I don't work for VM,but can vouch for their machines.I also have Blendtec--another machine worth the cost-esp if you do "spin Cookery" a lot.I love both my Vita mix and Blendtec.the JLL machine does look like a knock-off-surprized VM's lawyers aren't knocking on their doors.The Hendi FS machine also appears to be a renamed VM machine.I looked at the Krups machine at Bed Bath and Beyond and was not impressed-cheap plastic drive clutch.The VM and Blendtec machines would be MUCH better than the Krups.Remember the VM and Blendtec-even their household-resedentual models are based on their commercial machines.-have the same motors and jars-blades.On the Hendi machine-VM may have put in a smaller motor if it was rated at 850W.The usual VM motor-at least for the 5000 sereies machines and the commercial units-is 1400W.On another line of commercial VM blenders the motors are 1800W-on the "touch and Go" blending stations.I have one of those-love it!You can see I do A LOT of "spin Cookery"!Mostly all fruit smoothies and shakes.