- ✅【WIDESPREAD OSCILLATION】Widespread oscillation, multi-speed functionality provides optimal comfort and the compact design doesn’t impede on your desk space
- ✅【PRECISE AIR DELIVERY】Pivoting top module for precision air delivery
- ✅【CUSTOMIZED COMFORT】3 speeds provide customizable comfort
- ✅【EASY TO USE】Comes fully assembled. Two front-mounted electronic buttons operate the desktop fan. One controls on/off and the 3 quiet fan speeds, the other controls the optional oscillation. Cord length is 6 feet and easily reaches the nearest outlet
- ✅【LIGHTWEIGHT & PORTABLE】Weighs only 4.45 pounds with a built-in handle for easy portability; Dimensions (L x W x H): 6 x 6 x 14 inches
13 reviews for Lasko Oscillating Platinum Desktop Wind Tower Fan, 3-Speeds, Compact, Portable with Handle for Office, Bedroom and Kitchen, 14″, Black, 4916
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Martine B. –
Very disappointing. Bulky, noisy and not much air movement. Really not worth buying.
Beth A. Whaley –
I now have two of these fans. One for office and one for home. Powerful, yet quiet. It’s all light weight. This is my goto fan!
Perilous Moo –
Update #3: It’s September now and this fan has gotten worse and worse and worse. Since it was too hot to return it – a terrible, noisy fan is better than none at all when it’s 107F – I decided to see how long it would last. I leave it running for days at a time, and it does run and the air it blows is fairly consistent. It oscillates with no trouble. But it’s grown louder and louder, it grinds and vibrates even when not oscillating, and my entire desk thrums. I work with A/V and even with my studio cans on at full blast I can hear this fan on low from two feet away.
There is zero excuse for this. Lasko should be ashamed of themselves for this garbage. I’m furious.
Update #2: It’s 17 July and it’s hotter than Hades in NYC, and I have had this fan running now since I the day I unpacked it and placed it on my desk.
I am sad to say that this item is going to have to be returned, because it’s gotten louder and louder and louder with each passing day. It rattles and thumps and vibrates and makes so much noise I can hardly hear myself think.
There is no excuse for this. None at all. I am extremely disappointed in Lasko.
UPDATE: I got the new fan yesterday (Sunday 30 June 2019) and it’s much, much, much more quiet than the first one. As soon as I plugged the new one in and turned it on, I did a couple minutes’ comparing the airflow (identical) and the noise (radically different) and put the first one in the box the second one came in, ready for return. I’m not even going to keep that first one for use elsewhere; the rattling and banging is not normal.
That said, the fan is still noisy, just not as noisy as a jet engine being bounced round a room with metal walls. And it does not have a uniform noise quality, either – sometimes it thumps and bumps, sometimes it rattles, sometimes it vibrates heavily, and sometimes it operates smoothly. All of that is not ideal and should not be happening in a well made, quality fan, but here we are. Welcome to the state of the world in 2019.
Still, since it’s much quieter and the airflow is very good at the close range for which I will be using it (barely two feet from my body), I’m keeping it because it’s too hot to futz around. But when it comes time to replace it, I’ll be spending just a little bit more and I’ll order two or three different kinds to see which one works the best and doesnt make you deaf in the process.
Do better, Lasko. You are aware of these issues. There is zero reason for them to persist. One star removed for ignoring known issues and very poor quality control.
I generally like Lasko fans. So when the big heat hit this week and my health took a big nosedive, I decided that this summer I would have a desktop fan. After much comparing and contrasting, I chose this little guy, and for only the second time in my life took advantage of same-day delivery. If the heat wasnt making me quite ill, I’d have simply used Prime.
First, let me tell you about the fan. Then I will tell you about the fiasco that ensued after I placed the order.
The fan itself is a nice little sturdy unit, feels good and solid, well-made, and a small footprint. The cord is long enough without being a nightmare. The airflow on the top bit is good and strong on all three speeds, though it blows a very, very narrow column of air – much more narrow than the grates are, so that it has to be carefully aimed if kept stationary. Even a couple inches to one side or the other and you feel no airflow at all. The bottom portion is a much weaker airflow for some reason, which is a bit annoying. The top and bottom portions can be individually adjusted to whichever direction you choose. This is ideal for a hot desk: I can the upper portion of the fan blowing at my face, and the lower portion blowing at my hands on the keyboard as I work. It works out beautifully, and though it could be better, I am extremely pleased with the arrangement.
The real downside is the NOISE.
I’m not usually bothered by fan noise very much; I understand that fans cannot be entirely silent and the white noise can be very soothing and help with focus and concentration. But this little guy isnt a shop fan and there’s no reason for it to be as loud as it is. This thing sounds like the love child of a lawnmower on bath salts and a crop-duster with engine trouble trying to escape after just having pulled a bank heist. Holy bananas, this thing is LOUD.
And to make matters worse, it’s not even just a steady loud hum like a fan. It’s a buzzy, high-pitched, whiny loud that varies and oscillates, sometimes higher, sometimes lower, sometimes not present at all. And then there’s the rattling and the thumping and the vibrating the desk so that the pencils rattle. What on earth is the deal with this thing?
It really is very, very loud. Loud. LOUD. So I’m going to see what the other one I ordered sounds like when it arrives tomorrow, and depending on which one is less strident, I will return the other.
Which leads me to an explanation as to why my single same-day Friday order magically turned into two fans by Sunday night:
A little while after I placed the order, I went to check status to see if it had been processed. That’s when I noticed that the final shipper was Lasership, a company I’d never heard of. A quick google revealed that they are a horrible, horrible company who is continually in trouble for outright stealing packages right from pickup with no intention at all of delivering them, and marking them as delivered and insisting that it is the customer’s fault they never got their package. A number of very major online businesses use these guys. My friend told me the story of what she repeatedly went through when she ordered her cat supplies through a major online pet retailer that uses/used Lasership and that she never got her deliveries from them and they always insisted the deliveries had been made when they had not.
Sure enough, 9pm rolled around (the “will be delivered by” time) and no fan. 10:30 pm rolls around and I call Amazon. The dude on the phone was very pleasant and completely unsurprised that Lasership never sent me my package. At one point, his exact words were, “I would be shocked if it actually ever showed up.” So he patiently went through the process – he tried calling Lasership but it was “after their business hours” and nobody picked up. He talked to his management. He checked this and that. Long story short, Amazon made good and at around 10:55pm, we hung up. I had a credit for a new fan which I used immediately and placed the order again for the same fan, to be delivered via Prime for Sunday (tomorrow), and my same-day shipping fee was refunded. Thank you, Logan!
At 11:01 pm, I get a notification on my phone from Amazon: My package has been delivered. Mysteriously at 59 minutes before midnight, six minutes after I get off a 20-minute complaint call to Amazon. Suddenly, this box appears in my building’s lobby. I dont think so.
Why is Amazon doing business with this company? Why? Why are they contracting their package delivery services to a company that has worse customer satisfaction ratings that Somali pirates? What is wrong with you, Jeff Bezos? Stop using these nasty tactics and treat your employees better!
If I were the kind of people Amazon execs and Lasership are, I’d have remained completely silent about all of this and simply claimed that I never received the first fan at all. But I’m not like that. So I’ll check to see which fan is better and return the other. Heck, I might even keep ’em both just to use the other in another location where the noise won’t matter quite as much. I do work with A/V so I can’t have a lot of extra noise while I’m at my desk trying to get my job done.
Stay away from same-day delivery from Amazon unless you are absolutely sure that their last-stage delivery is covered by a reputable company. Or Somali pirates. Because otherwise, you’ll be chasing your package from here to eternity, and you’ll be hot while you do it.
Skye –
I bought this for use in the hospital when I was a patient, with the intention of using it in a baby’s room after that in order to help with airflow (which cuts down on the risk of SIDS) and to provide some white noise for her. It is a perfect size to use on a bedside table. I love how you can position the fan in two directions since the top and bottom swivel independently. It helps cover more area with breeze. There are two buttons on the front, one to control air speed/on/off and one for oscillation/stationary. The only two negatives are the lack of separate buttons for air speed/on/off. You have to push one button for all three speeds and punch it three times to turn the fan off. Kind of annoying when holding a squirmy baby or if you have the fan on the ground and want to turn the fan off with your toe instead of bending over (yeah, call me lazy, but I am sure you would do the same thing if you put the fan on the floor.) The second con is the fan has gotten louder the more we use it. It is on for approximately 12 hours a night in my daughter’s room, so it gets a good amount of use, maybe that is why it is getting noisier faster than normal. It does provide good white noise, which is perfect for our intended use, so if you want something quiet this wouldn’t be the fan for you. If it had separate buttons for speed and on/off, it would be the perfect compact fan.
Alejandra Izaguirre –
El producto es exactamente lo que describe
Un poco más ruidoso de lo que esperaba
Pero en general es un buen producto
Amazon Customer –
This little fan is great. It oscillates in two different directions, it’s quiet and easy to place on almost any surface. We are able to adjust our thermostat by 2 degrees with this fan, a big help toward our electric bill. With a sleek, space saving design, it looks good too.
Khiggins –
Bought two of these fans and they ate wonderful. Perfect for moving air and not taking up too much room. Quiet and affordable. Very happy with purchase.
chavezig –
Muy buen producto, funciona bien, llegó en.muu buen estado me gusto, a a a a a a a a a
Barbara L. Reimers –
The fan moves the air fine on all levels but, at least for me, it’s too noisy for a bedroom.
Juan Ayala –
Muy recomendable. Un buen tamaño por el precio, buena calidad y silencioso. El aire ventila muy bien. Valió la pena la compra!
Mercedes –
I found that it is very loud. Doesn’t come with remote. My friend had a woozoo fan. Compare to that fan, both same price, this one doesn’t cut it. Had to return it
acevedo619 –
Fans are always so hard to buy, especially online, because half of reviewers say the fan is extremely quiet, and the other half say the fans are ridiculously loud. I watched video reviews for this fan on Youtube because I came across that problem. The videos in my opinion show a fan that is quieter than most. When I tried it at home, it also seemed like a good, non-noisy fan. Ultimately, I find the fan fairly low on noise but it does depend on what setting you’re on, and where you’re at. At home, the middle setting seems much less quiet than at my office (where I use it), which can be dead silent at times. Overall, I’m happy with my purchase, love the gray color, that you can split the direction of air flow, and that it oscillates. It’s hard to find small, desktop fans that oscillate. Haven’t had a bad Lasko fan yet. 5 stars.
Claire –
So love, love my Lasko Wind Tower. It’s quiet, it’s adjustable like no other fan I have ever seen. It oscillates , you can totally move the top half one way around, while bottom stays stationary, it’s compact, move it to any table top or surface where you need air, has a very long cord and works better than my ceiling fan.
Buy this fan, you won’t be sorry!