RE: roomba opinions ?

["White, Peter" <peter.white@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

About 20 of them were sold to list members waaaaay back before Xmas 2002.
IMHO, they're certainly not worth =A3299; sounds like an optimistic
stall-holder trying to snag the impulse buyers.  Especially considering
tha=
t
the Roomba Pro Elite (
http://www.irobotstore.com/CGI-BIN/LANSAWEB?WEBEVENT+LK717FE182D2505B6AB591=
4
H+JGW+ENG ) goes for $249 in the US, which is just =A3138 these days, so
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en
with tax you'd get one landed for <=A3170.

A year-and-a-half on, I think most Roomba users fall into 1 of 2 camps:=20

(a) it's sat in the corner and hasn't been used for months, or=20
(b) use it all the time and rarely get the normal vacuum out.=20=20

Shamefully, I fall into the first camp, but I'm not sure why.  They do
work=
,
and are reasonably reliable, though there have been 3 failures that I know
of from the ones that we sold, so that's nearly 10%, but these were early
models, I know that iRobot have made quite a few changes since then.

Pete
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard [mailto:richard@xxxxxxx]=20
Sent: 26 March 2004 08:10
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] roomba opinions ?


Hi all,

I remember seeing some chat about roomba robotic vacuum cleaners on this
list a while back - did anyone buy one and if so what do you think of it ?

I was at the ideal home show yesterday and finally saw one close up - still
in two minds - they were selling for =A3299 but I've seen them on eBay and
elsewhere for =A3199

Cheers

Richard



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