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iRobot Roomba 4210 Discovery Vacuuming Robot, White
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Our Price: $245.00
List Price: $279.99
Your Save: $ 34.99 ( 12% )
Sales Rank: #13162 (lower is better)
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: iRobot
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Brand: iRobot
Color: Ice Palace
EAN: 0853816042104
Manufacturer: iRobot
Model: 4210
Release Date: 2004-09-15
Shipping Weight (lbs): 12
Dimensions (in): 21.1 x 16.8 x 5.2
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iRobot Roomba 4210 Discovery Vacuuming Robot, White Features
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- Robotic floorvac with dirt detection and convenient infra-red cliff sensors
- Auto adjusts to any floor surface; 2-hour continuous cleaning; easy-to-empty debris bin
- Edge-cleaning sidebrush; stasis sensor; virtual wall for confining to designated area
- Rechargeable APS battery, 3-hour charger, 2 virtual walls, 2 air filters, and remote control included
- Measures 16-3/4 by 21 by 5 inches; 1-year warranty
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iRobot Roomba 4210 Discovery Vacuuming Robot, White Description
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Push a button???not a vacuum cleaner???to get your house sparkling clean. The Roomba Discovery Robotic Vacuum senses, finds and eliminates dirt while automatically adjusting to any floor surface including carpet, wood, tile and linoleum. The round-shape vacuum goes where others can't like corners and edges then returns to its self-charging home base. The remote-control Roomba also features a bagless bin for mess-free emptying and has received the #1 CPR rating worldwide. Comes with wall mount.
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iRobot Roomba 4210 Discovery Vacuuming Robot, White customer reviews:
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Makes life easier
I have no regrets about purchasing the Roomba. It helps to keep the carpet clean between sessions with the full-sized vacuum. I can run the Roomba as often as I like without worry, which helps to keep the dog hair at bay. It doesn't get stuck with power cords or suck them up which is great. Just turn it on and let it run on your way to work and you come home to a cleaner floor. Fabulous! Granted cleaning out the hair (dog hair + my long hair) out of the brush can be a bit of a pain but the cleaning tool really eases process. Now I only wish my dog weren't afraid of the little robot - I was hoping she'd get a kick out of it and try to play with it but no such luck. She just runs away whenever Roomba gets too close and looks at me for help.
hopless battery
Initially very pleased with the iRobot Roomba, & recommended it to numerous relatives & friends, & many of them then purchased iRobots for themselves.
Now I'm not recommending it anymore! Very poor battery life ! At $70 + s&h it becomes an annual expense I can do without.
Yes it works well when it is working, & even the very frequent cleaning of brushes don't put me off. However when the battery begins to lose life after only 6 months & will only push the iRobot around for 15 minutes before recharge is required, it is no longer a viable piece of equipment, even if you have given it a cute pet name ( its not what I would call it today ). It has become just another bit of clutter for the garage.
Hey well, back to the old upright I guess, not so cute but much more efficient.
Stay away! Poor product, worse customer service, required acessories routinely out of stock.
Stay away. Stay far away from this company and their products. Poor quality product, abysmally pathetic customer service after you're already on the hook for $250+, no follow-up with the customer and required accessories are routinely out of stock. It's not worth it even if the thing did occasionally clean a floor now and then.
A case in point:
My wife purchased a Roomba Discovery as a gift for me. Unfortunately, this model's delicate power supply was initially put on the market with no sort of internal surge suppressor. As a result, a blip in our electricity 9 months later fried the power supply. An iRobot rep dutifully offered to send me a new & improved power supply with surge suppression. This took over 2 months, as they were out of stock due to the aforementioned manufacturing glitch.
12 months and 6 days from the date of purchase, the power supply arrived. We found that the power surge 2 months ago apparently fried the robot itself as well as the power supply. Due to iRobot's incompetence in design and the subsequent lack of in-stock power supplies, we found ourselves outside of iRobot's year warranty period. iRobot refused to replace the robot unless I paid $99 plus shipping for the repair since it was 6 days out of warranty! No amount of discussion would swerve the customer service drone away from charging me to have a repair done on a product that fried while it was still in warranty. He even admitted that he had the whole record (including that they were out of stock on replacement power supplies for close to 3 months) on file. "There's nothing I can do, sir" I was told. In subsequent calls I was told that if I had filed a particular form that was never mentioned by any customer service people, the $99 fee would have been waived, but that it was too late to do anything about it now (like issue a refund or give me, say, $99 worth of accessories.) Nope, no can do, sir. We apologize for the inconvenience but we're still keeping your cash.
iRobot then sent me 2 dud "remanufactured" Discovery Roombas before we found one that would actually charge up. (Do they even turn them on to test before they ship them out again?) The "working" one they finally sent would not dock on the self-charging dock from day one. But the same poor customer service that got this nightmare started eventually worked in my favor. Due to what I assume to be a computer glitch (imagine!) a second Roomba showed up on my doorstep a month later via Fed Ex. When the battery gave out after 3 sessions, I was then forced to purchase a new battery. Pity that - iRobot seems to have forgotten to manufacture batteries recently.
For the past 4 months the iRobot website has said that Roomba batteries are out of stock and due back "within 4 to 6 weeks." They say not to use non-iRobot brand batteries or they'll void your warranty. What are you meant to do when the only company that sells "approved" batteries won't keep said batteries in stock? Go to eBay like everybody else for after-market "Made in China" knockoffs, I guess.
What a hunk of junk. Wait - what HUNKS of junk. I forgot I now have TWO dead Roombas.
Mixed feelings about Roomba after a year
After using my Roomba a year, I've decided I'll probably not buy another when this one gives out. The main reason I bought a Roomba was to save time and concluded Roomba doesn't help much in that department. The time it takes me to set up the room (getting cords and junk out of the way, etc.) plus the time it takes to clean the Roomba out is more than how long it would take me to just whip out the vacuum and kamikaze the floors myself.
We've got 2 dogs (short hair but prodigious shedders nonetheless) and 2 teenaged girls (long hair, also shedders) and the hair gets wound up in the brushes. After every run, I have to take the Roomba apart, cut the wound-up hair off the brushes, comb out the rest of the hair, and so on. This is a 15-minute operation by itself.
Roomba also does not match the performance a decent rug-beating vacuum does on carpet.
If you have lots of hard flooring and don't have hair issues, Roomba is for you.
I threw it away
Roomba worked for 6 months and I tried to get a response from the website without luck. When I finally got someone to respond they said that the software was bad and I had to buy a new one and they would give me a discount. Warranty sucks. Customer service treats you like an idiot. Buy an upright vacuum sweeper.$200 down the drain. They have no facility to fix ones that do not work. You have to throw it out and buy another.
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