Is Instaheat Heater a Scam or Legit?
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- Опубликовано: 19 ноя 2022
- It is the night of Nov. 20, 2022, and users on Google are looking to find out if this heating product called Instaheat heater is a scam and they're looking for reviews. Right off the top, let me tell you that this seems to be the same product that's been sold before under other names and they keep changing the name once the public realizes with all the bad reviews that the product doesn't do what's described.
So here’s what this Instaheat heater scam is. It’s a small plug-in device that provides heat. There are claims that it can heat a whole room in minutes. It might be able to help out a small room, but don’t expect impressive results. Always remember that if it seems too good to be true, it probably is.
The Instaheat heater scam is nothing new, as I mentioned before. I checked Scamadviser’s channel and they said that this product has likely been known as Heater Pro X, Top Heat heater, Orbis heater, Elite Heat heater, and Alfa Flame heater. They also said that these products are known for coming from China, and that yes, they do get hot, but they won’t heat a room in minutes. And here’s the thing. The product works and gets hot if you put your hand near it, like I said. But I’m seeing high prices for the product when you can basically get the same thing for far less money on Amazon and eBay if you just type portable plug-in heater. If you want to get one and you have a tiny room, I mean go for it, but don’t get scammed and overpay.
I recommend checking out Scamadviser’s video which provided a good demonstration and a test of what appeared to be the same product when it was called Top Heat heater. I’ll include that link in the pinned comment down below.
I hope my video helped. I’m spending my free time to make these videos like this one about the Instaheat scam to help people out. There are so many scams out there. Every day brings new scams, and you can only report on so many of them. But I figured I could do a little more on my own time on nights and weekends, and that’s exactly what I’m doing now. Scams can sometimes hurt people. Scams can take money from people. And not everyone has money to spare. So I hope I can help you on my channel. So please click the Like button, the thumbs up button, and subscribe.
Also, feel free to check out my creative projects about New York City history and abandoned places in the pinned comment down below.
Feel free to share your story in the comments below. Thanks so much for watching.
Note: This Instaheat heater has nothing to do with a similarly-named product with ties to a Switzerland domain name. 
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My favourite is the background story behind this one. The boy heated his school with the heater he made. When big gas companies reached out to him he said no way.. then he was expelled from school.😂
Yeah, who knew you could be expelled from school for something that's obviously not against school rules. It's almost as if its made up.
Hehehehe hence here i am watching a review on it to see if its a scam
I was suspicious of a ad by this thing because of the overwhelming positive reviews and talking
And then everyone clapped
My Ad said it was in Fairbanks with 14°C thats not that cold too for Alaska
I thought wow this is so good, then I went to the website and was hit by a Bbc news page (fake) then instant 70% discounts along with you have 25 minutes to buy.
So many red flags
As an electrician, husband of a perpetually cold wifey, and son of aging parents who could never get warm enough in the winter, all space heaters are pretty much crap. Dunno about other countries, but in the US the highest rated heater you can get is going to be 1500 Watts. That's equivalent to the most powerful of microwaves, most countertop microwaves are 7-800 (small) and 1000-1200 (large).
That being said, I did get my wife one of these plug in style ones that goes directly in the outlet, but she only uses it right next to the bed for her benefit. Don't know if it's the one referred to in this video, we've had it a couple years, and I get the "Glade" reference, it's bigger than that...in fact almost big enough to pull itself out of the outlet.
If you really want better heat, you have to go propane, which of course has it's own dangers, I didn't dare get one for my aging parents, but I do let my perpetually cold wifey use a "Big Buddy" (double green Coleman can) propane heater on the coldest days, but make her swear on her life to never leave it unattended, even though it has a 'tip feature'. That thing is so hot on the highest setting, that after 20 minutes I'm sweating and we have one of those couples' arguments about temperature.
Nobody wants to hear this, but if heating is that difficult for you, it's probably because you need to do some insulating or window sealing. If the price of gas and current political/economic indicators mean anything I think they do, a lot of people are in for a tough winter this year.
Get a 230v heater, along with a 230v circuit to the place you need it. I remember seeing a video that US houses have 230v available in the power box, ask your electrician.
Not all space heaters are crap ass hole
Well said!
Cop rating is what matters and the claims for this heater are basically lying. They claim it’s 30% more efficient than more conventional heaters which is cobblers. The most efficient storage heaters might be 85% or so and gas boilers these days about 95%.
What matters is the size of room to be heated and by how much. This is can be calculated in kwh. The heater is 800w so hasn’t a hope of heating faster than a 2kw fan heater or convector heater as even if they are less efficient they are still chucking out way more heat.
If the thermal gradient is pretty shallow between inside and outside on a cold day, ie your room won’t hold the heat in, then just 800 watts hasn’t a snowball’s chance in hell of warming that room as most of the heat is being rapidly lost. You’re far better off properly insulating that space. A well insulated room once warm should be able to stay at least 15 degrees Celsius warmer than outside for several hours after the heating is switched off once up to temperature. For a freezing cold day this means that after several hours if the room is heated to 20 degrees then heating stopped, two to three hours later it should still be between 15 to 17 degrees in the room. If not, it’s not insulated well enough or the property has way too low a thermal mass to retain the heat. Well insulated properties should be able to hold 15 to 18 degrees temperature gradient for at least 3 to 5 hours
You can get a fan heater in Europe of up to 3kW but these are quite rare. a 1/2kW switchable one is much more common.
I love how the 3minute instahead commercial is comming just before this video
Great public service. Thank you for saving me from making an expensive gamble.
All the best, Jordan.
I love the way every scam is named, like it’s so fun y that they all have this certain type of name where it’s obvious it’s a scam
Had two of these heaters The first one which cost £15 on E-Bay gave enough heat to warm yours hands, tested heating effect in a small bedroom 16 deg C set heater to 30C after 1hour the temperature stayed the same waste of money so I returned it to seller on E=Bay and had a full refund. The second time of purchase was after watching a very impressive advert on the Web which was very convincing and I assumed the first one that I returned was a cheap copy, this one was £51.90 but turned out the be exactly the same as the first one it was difficult to return & I ended up with £15 compensation & I could keep the heater ,not a happy chappy but I am now much more careful on my online purchases .
I’m an HVAC expert. I’ll tell y’all the secret to keeping your house warm in the winter and cool in the summer while saving costs and utilizing the highest percentage of your HVAC system production. INSULATION!!! Having your home properly insulated and good sealed windows makes all the difference in the world.
Yh, my mums house is unbearable for me due to having excellent insulation, good sealed windows and doors. The house has no cracks or visible holes whatsoever. It’s unbearable for me personally as I don’t like too warm a house, too hot for me, personally.
@@gloverdragon6854 Maybe just a small ceiling fan to help move air and keep you cooler if it’s too hot.
@@gloverdragon6854 You can turn the thermostat down if the room has one. That's the way heating should be done.
In the winter cover your windows with 2” insulated Styrofoam sheets .
yes and keep your lights on all day@@vicpetrishak7705
they just started advertising these things in new zealand.
now at the start of the commercial it advises that the inventor was born here and that auckland is sub zero in winter.
auckland might do that occasionally but its one of the warmest places in the country.
also its all shown using usa style wall sockets and "takes pennies to run"
we dont use 110 volt and neither do we have pennies
Sounds like they're just trying to hit different areas of the world to see which one converts the best in terms of profits.
@@jordanliles . they also state he was a jet engine engineer. well we do maintenance on them sure. but we sure dont make or design them. heck, we dont even have an oil refinery anymore , we used to be world leaders in electronics but those days are well over as everything moved offshore.
now its like the venezuela of the south pacific .
thank you for this, I have background in home appliance repair and knew instantly that this is too good to be true when I saw their advertisement (now they call themselves bliss heat)
On the advertisement they say the device will "recycle" heat and make the room warmer that way. anyone with a bit of knowledge with heat will know it is BS. heat energy is like light, it can not be recycle, at best it can only be retain or generated, but to generate heat it require energy output.
I am worried that it has no cord. The sockets often are in bad locations where they may be obstructed by things. This could prevent dissipation o the heat or even cause fire danger. Use of extension cords with heaters are not recommended. With electric heating you essentially get what you pay in electricity. There is no free lunch. With current prices I would not dream of using any electric heater. My charge went just from 12 to about 35 cents per kWh.
I paid 10 € for a simple 2 kW heater with a fan.
The advert says that Auckland gets below zero temperatures in winter which is simply not true. This tells me right off it’s a scam.
Here's the Scamadviser demonstration of a product of a similar name: ruclips.net/video/jHcrch92GzA/видео.html.
And here are the creative projects I mentioned:
140 Years of New York City, Then and Now: ruclips.net/video/5mjOdBpDxZU/видео.html
The Sidewalks of New York: The Documentary: ruclips.net/video/99Q8TFLf60k/видео.html
Abandoned Tropical Hotel Photos: Then and Now: ruclips.net/video/flaP63iuoWg/видео.html
Tennessee Wonderland: Exploring an Abandoned Mountain Neighborhood and Hotel: ruclips.net/video/zfaTpunhJRs/видео.html
It is currently called the toasty heater, and I've seen 3 consecutive ads with completely different backstories.
All you have to do is look at the wattage of these heaters to know that they cannot possibly throw much heat, least of all enough to heat a whole room.
Agreed, when you look at the ads it's impossible to find the wattage and you would be better off by buying a normal plug in fan heater and use the savings for your electric bill.
Thank you so much for this quick informational video!!
The best part is, I just got an ad for “Toasty Heater” just before this video. Which is the exact same product as this.
Sigh... My dad just got like 6 of these. I'm not sure where he got them from but.
I'm so sorry to hear that.
It's a fancy toilet heater, in as far as your toilet is in a small separate room
Thank you for this review- really helpful 😊
But they said it was really efficient. It heats the heat from heat to make more heat ..... so ahhh.... why would they lie>>>
Thank you!! Very helpful.
thank you, it is now starting to be available in Australia .
I have two of them in my camper and they're great. One only keeps the tiny bathroom warm and the other augments the furnace only in the sleeper cab-over. So both are micro regions and these allow me to fine tune the heating for cold nights. They are not the main source of heat in the camper and would be inadequate for that purpose. Although I suppose four of them might get the job done. Watts is watts.
I appreciate your philosophy. I'm taking your comments at face value. Your choice of words illustrtates that you have nothing to gain and are simply trying to help other people. A little about me: I own a large, publicly frequented property outside of milwaukee and now simply in the business of trying to help people and their future, especially younger people and families. So more about me as this subscription proceeds. Thank you. Marko
Some electric heaters may be more efficient than others but there is no magic technology that can produce more heat energy than normally attainable from any given electrical input.
All electric heaters have an identical 100% efficiency.
@@grahamstevenson1740 .
Not necessarily when it comes to warming a room. The heat from a radiator may initially at least, go the warm up the wall, whereas that from a blower heater will be spread around the room
@@grahvis When you add up where all the heat goes it's always 100%. Not counting heating the wall up (that will then radiate and conduct heat back into the room) is 'improper accounting'. The can't randomly choose to say that a portion of the heat 'doesn't count'.
@@grahvis If you assume perfect insulation of the room for the sake of this comparison then they are all the same once they reach steady state. watts are watts
I use an upright closed system oil filled heater. It looks like those old apartment heater wall units. It costs a bit but I only use it in the bedroom because I get cold at night but hate electric blankets.
It's obviously a scam!!! Duh 🙄
Good video' but I can't see the Scam website link you mention. All I get below is a transcript of your spiel.
I saw this ad appear in my youtube feed and i had to laugh. As the person that put it together knows nothing about my country. They said the inventer was a jet engineer amd tired of the many below 0 degree nights in his hometown of Auckland New Zealand he created this. Auckland would be lucky if it ever got to 5 degrees in winter. It doesn’t get that cold there. This week alone the coldest is 8 degrees and we are less than a month out from the shortest day
Looks like you bought one already. Sorry for your loss.
I have one of them, they do heat a room
my bathroom and it's not in minutes
A candle will warm a room quicker....
I expected this man to use the actual heater an show us smh. Instead it's just a vid to tell us about another vid that shows us. Man u waste my time
I now recognize the background music as one scammers like. What is pathetic is that RUclips and Facebook seem perfectly happy to keep showing us these ads, even if the name of the product changes with the wind... Its a cheap chinese product that scammers resell.
Some of the bollocks in the promotion talks about sub zero temperatures in Auckland NZ ha what a joke Auckland has never ever had anywhere near zero yet as it has too much of a temprit climate, it may get down to 12c but never to zero. Never heard of this jet engine bloke in NZ either
Thank you!
I bought one it doesn't work, you might be able to warm your hands if you were one foot from it .
This is a disgrace. This is why people are reluctant to purchase goods on the internet. I wish I had reviewed the product before purchasing. It did not even heat a 1m x 1m area. Extremely disappointed with this product that I could not return because it requires you to send a picture of the device showing defect.
Well, devices like this do work. Just not as in the scam adverts. I bought one one from Lidl, expecting basically a kind of small hot air hair dryer. And that’s what I got. I works perfectly well to give our son a bit of warmth in the bathroom in the morning, as we let the temperature drop down to 14°C/55°F down there over night. (Never understood the point of warm or even hot bath rooms.)
And it does that and it objectively raises the full room’s temperature - if you leave it long enough, which we don't.
That costs less than a handful of kWh in electricity, far less than what we would need if we’d use the natural gas heater *just for this purpose*.
It heats my bathroom. I live in New England. It warms it up a few degrees and I’m fine with that. I’ve had it for two years. Looks exactly the same.
Thanks man just about purchased!!!!😮
He's talking complete nonsense, doubt he's ever owned one.
@@urbanmidnight1 But he's not the product is a scam. Anyone with 3rd grade knowledge of science knows the claims are absolute lies.
This product is clearly marketed for imbeciles like yourself.
This guy must be heating a masion for it to not work in a normal sized room. I absolutely love mine, I have one at home that use in my dining room when i work from home instead of heating the whole house an its fab.
Thanks!
Comes with warnings that it might burst into flames!
Man your good -- Thank you.
The size of a glade plugin? It's a lot bigger than the wall socket, what are you talking about? The versions on Amazon aren't official.
How is anything you mentioned remotely a scam?
You're misinformed.
The part about how it is impossible for it to heat up an entire normal room in minutes or seconds is true.
It is definitely a scam though. They keeping changing the product's name, and it keeps getting bad reviews. Right now it's called the Toasty Heater, and I got 3 consecutive ads for it, each with a completely different backstory.
They claim that it can heat an 800 sq. ft room by 80 degrees in 30 seconds. Yeah, that's BS.
Thanks. I appreciate that you have stopped me from wasting my money on this.
Mine works brillantly, id say from the article this guy hasn't ever tried it himself. Well either that or he has ginormous rooms, i wfh and its good enough to warm up my office/dining room and keep the room warm.
Any electric heater... if you put 500w in you get 500w heat out, if you put 1000w in you get 1000w heat out... thats it, no magic
Heat pumps do the trick though
New sub! Great channel! God Bless!
One thing you didn't mention is safety.
These things have absolutely no safety testing and represent a substantial fire hazard.
It's not just that they are waste of money, they could burn your house down with you inside it.
And to this day RUclips still allows these ads. These are the precious advertisers they have to censor everything to protect? Pathetic.
it dont lasted . the one I had the plug in melted fell out of the wall.I had to place a peice of wood on the bottem part to keep it from falling out of the wall.to balance with the plug.
I'll be sure to buy one if I need to heat a closet.
This heater is a load of rubbish. It won't even warm the room in summer! Absolute junk in my opinion
Now with 100% entropy!
Its about as powerful as my hairdryer mate..
Their argument is that this is more efficient. Which you didn’t really go over in the video. Do you know if it is as efficient as advertised ?
ALL electric heaters are by design 100% efficient. The room will heat up purely according to the wattage. A fan or radiant heater can be used just to warm YOU directly, together with your immediate surroundings with quick effect (by concentrating the heat in a smaller area) but will NOT warm the whole room any faster than any other type.
Nothing is for free and heating your house follows the laws of thermodynamics. The best way to manage hot summers and cold winters is with good INSULATION. Properly seal those damn windows and doors, to start. As for any electrical space heater...it's RESISTIVE heating...the worst type of heating out there, in terms of running costs. This advertisement is such crap that its laughable.
Even if they worked, if everybody used one then our electric grids would collapse due to high electricity demand.
Haha, yeah.
don't think it would collapse as it seems to cope so far with EV's, now that is a subject with efficiency and costs lies.
Electric heating is more expensive that gas (in most locations), plus simple thermodynamics determine the efficiency of simple heaters, and most are pretty good.
That a massive lie. To run a Boiler will cost more on gas they are 30kWh. Any space heater for an hour. If power cost is 0.160 kWh a hour. when gas is 1.66 for 30kWh. Your gas is using more money. When the boiler size is bigger then any damn space heater.
@@rodhandler7791 given that most electricity is generated from gas, the price charged is a rough proxy for the efficiency. If all you want is heat you’re better generating the heat directly.
Your cluelessness is obvious to all.
Blocked.
@@fredbloggs5902 Can't handle the truth so you block me. Just look who the clueless one is here. When 30kw boiler will cost more energy then any heater. Gas is cheaper but the boiler will use more units of gas in 1 hour then a 1000w heater will use. Can't be that hard for you to see.
@@rodhandler7791 You seem confused. You are mixing up kWh and kW. Your boiler's 30kW rating is its maximum power and it won't sustain that power output to keep your house warm. That means you can't simply look at the maximum power figures and compare directly.
Gas is cheaper for heating when you are looking for the same temperature in the same space. You need to look no further than the price per kWh of gas and electric: about 10p/kWh vs 34p/kWh.
Fred's reasoning for the cheaper gas rate is also sound.
@@userPrehistoricman A 24 kW boiler will use 24 kW of energy per hour. That what google is saying. So who is right here. My boiler is using about 24p every 30min at 85c. So is not cheaper for me. I have cold home so room temp need to be at 22c.
I just bought what I thought was “ top heater” and the advertisement shows a man I thought invented it) for some reason and thought I was getting the better model. When I got the 3 heaters today it just said portable heaters on the box. I didn’t buy the cheaper at Amazon units because I thought they were a different brand and the copy cats… what a dumb ass ha. I always look up anything I buy for months in advance and for some reason “ top Heater “didn’t come up.
*???? I've been using my tiny heater for years! True, it does not heat up a room, but I keep it next to my bed and all I do is turn it on and put my blanket over it like a tent for 5 to 15 second, and I'm completely as hot as can be then I tuck my blank in. Should I get cold again, I just repeat, but normally I don't need to.* *I have one for my office and one for my bed. I like that I can keep it very close by, and it's very portable.* *It has a temper control and a timer if you want it to shut off automatically.* *When I bought this years ago, I didn't expect it to heat a room!? Just a small area I'm using at the moment.* *It's funny because I was just using mine when I got up and came in here and saw your video. LOL.* *Mine works perfectly for me for the purpose I bought it for. Meaning, not running up my electric bill.* *I guess it's not for everyone.* *I have one of those $300 luggage size heater for heating up a room, but that one will run up the bill.* *The brand I've been using is Soleil™. Maybe the brands are not all the same, or?* *Too bad we can post any photos, to you can't see how I use it and what mine looks like, such with reviews rankings.*
Is this a bad joke? Never cover a heater that is not intended for it. You could get killed in a fire.
Blanketing any heating with blankets etc is DANGEROUS !
@@grahamstevenson1740 I keep it next to my bed and all I do is turn it on and *burn my house down for 5 to 15 seconds* and I'm completely as hot as can be
Why and how is your entire message in bold?
@@adamofblastworks1517 Would you like to know how to make *Bold,* _Slanted,_ -strike through- or all *_-THREE?-_*
I can’t believe that it doesn’t work like they said.
It doesn’t heat up and don’t let me return for the full amount that I paid for!
I'm sorry the scammers did this. So many scams out there these days.
Almost 2024 and I just saw it advertised as "vistaheat" some German engineers invention that fixed the energy crisis🤣 good looking out!
Sounds like snake oil, Ive got a friend who bought one and he wasn't that impressed, i think 500w is still high for it size, i have a 250w dimplex portable heater that does a far better job and bangs out some heat and uses half the power of the instaheater an uses the same technology as the instaheater so its nothing new.
Any electrical heating device will convert almost all its electrical consumption into heat though the smaller the wattage the lesser the running cost BUT the longer it will take to warm a room - depending upon the room's size, the ambient temperature and the room's insulation or lack thereof - if the heater has insufficient wattage / heating capacity for the above mentioned criteria it will NEVER HEAT THE ROOM!
EVERY resistance element electric heater will ONLY deliver heat proportionate to its wattage and the only way for an electrical heater to do better is using a reverse cycle air conditioner / heat pump.
A basic understanding of physics will tell you that in order to generate heat there needs to be a large input of energy.
It's like a toy
now it has a new name 😂 Ozzi Heat
100,% Scam
Seems like a scam. And the story is such bs.
Non bias review. Listened to someone else reviewing these devices, then saying if your interested you can buy here lol. Waste of money. Were mammels, best way to get warm is to eat! Simples!
Absolute garbage.
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My oven is the greatest heater there is.
An electric oven will heat a kitchen better than this little plug in unit but eventually, the element will burn out and you will need to replace it at far greater cost than a reasonable plug-in heater. I use cheap plug-in fan heaters - dual heat, 1000 / 2000 watt element, 2-speed fan, thermostat and tip-over safety switch - lasts about 5 years or more and cost around $20.00 - more expensive ones are available but they don't cost less to run or last longer.
I was stupid enough to buy this lol me and my dad can’t help it
50 to 149$ noma electric oil heaters💗💗. Best option for your buck. Noma has my vote always or until i hear about oil heater under noma brand that blew inhome godforbid
Thanks for your help!
Thank you!
Thank you, very helpful!