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here's the manufacturer's website

and the user manual

froogleeeeee.

lots of good reviews on this one at buzzillionshttp://www.buzzillions.com/reviews/irobot-roomba-530-vacuum-cleaning-robot-reviews

and 85/100 from alatest is good too.
http://alatest.com/reviews/vacuum-reviews/irobot-roomba-530/po3-53041241,340/

A thread from the same item back in August. I'm sure lots of common questions are answered there!

Also a thread from April!

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iRobot Roomba 530 Robotic Vacuum with Virtual Wall [Refurbished] - $129.99 + $5 shipping shipping

1 * iRobot Roomba 530 Robotic Vacuum with Virtual Wall and Self-Charging Home Base

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Serebrate wrote:woot! has a love affair with the Roomba product line, it seems. It's a strange magic.

But a beautiful magic. Each time I see one of these on Woot, I get just a little bit closer to buying one. The floorplan in my house makes it....difficult, to say the least. (lots of small rooms with doors and doorjams that would make vacumming with this thing impossible)...le sigh.

I bought one at this previous Wooting. Been very happy with it. I named it Roombie.

Hey Woot! My wife and I would like the one designed for pets. Maybe the next time around?

Killer gift for the lazy meth addict

I have a 560 I believe and it actually broke within the first year of having it... I thought it was going to be a customer service nightmare getting it fixed but it was actually a great experience - after a series of 2 or 3 troubleshooting emails they sent me out a replacement part free of charge and it has been working great ever since.

This model has been around for awhile, but the reviews are good.

http://www.gadgetvenue.com/irobot-roomba-530-vacuum-review-05175441/

http://housewares.about.com/od/vacuumreviews/gr/iRobotRoomba500.htm

I have this roomba and it works great!

One caveat though is that it will not like dark colored rugs! The sensors will think they are a cliff and have it avoid them and possibly get stuck. iRobot has yet to come out with a fix for this.

You can cover the sensors yourself with paper and tape however this will morph your roomba into a lemming that will tumble down flights of stairs.

If you don't have a dark carpet or you don't have a staircase this is an excellent pick up.

I've been having a terrible weekend, which has included vacuuming.

In for one, no more weekends like this. Clean floors without effort.

I bought one of these from the last woot offering. The Roomba does a great job of picking up cat fur and stray litter pellets from around the house. It also does a great job of picking up my girlfriend's long hair, getting tangled up, and then bleating plaintively until you come to repair it.

That said, I am thoroughly satisfied with my purchase, and I haven't yet encountered any of the common problems with battery life (we'll see how that holds up in a year...)

Maintenance is pretty easy but you really do need to pull all of the tangled hair/fur out of the sides of the brushes, and hair will somehow manage to get on the inside of the little side brush. You'll have to use a Phillips head screwdriver to take off the brush and remove the offending hair.

I can vouch for this Roomba 530 and refurbished ones from Woot. I have bought three of them from Woot, two of which were for me, and they do a wonderful job and have been problme free. I have a Siberian Husky, so pet hair is a bit of a problem, but Roomba handles it pretty well. Had I known how well, I would have purchased one long before last June. BTW, I just picked up the Roomba 560 during the last Woot Off. Roombas rock!!!

omnipotentq wrote:But a beautiful magic. Each time I see one of these on Woot, I get just a little bit closer to buying one. The floorplan in my house makes it....difficult, to say the least. (lots of small rooms with doors and doorjams that would make vacumming with this thing impossible)...le sigh.

That's the perfect layout. You only want this to clean a small area at a time. It does the best job that way.

When I was in a house with that type of floorplan, I'd just run Roomba in a different room every day, on my way out the door. Now I've got two going in a huge multi-room space, and it can be hit or miss.

I have a Roomba that gets lost and dies before
it can get back to its charger. My mom made a
sweater for it!

I have this unit and I highly recommend it. It works great on hardwoods and doesn't seem to have much of an issue with our rugs. Definately gets some of the hard to reach areas and picks up the wandering dog hair around the house. The docking station is really nice, you don't have to go looking for it after a while, it takes itself to the docking station to recharge the battery, all by itself! Great price on this as well, paid quite a bit more for ours a few months ago.

Not to mention, my apartment complex doesn't allow pets It was a roomba or a goldfish.. I think a roomba is cuddlier.

Youtube roomba 530

Roomba cat.

You know, I was actually waiting for a roomba to come out. It's really funny...

In for one.

LEM- wrote:A thread from the same item back in August. I'm sure lots of common questions are answered there!

Also a thread from April!

Bought it in August and we love our Dusty Bottoms.

To summarize previous woots, a few things that will get asked/discussed ad nauseam on this woot:

No it does NOT replace your regular vac. It does a GREAT job at maintaining a clean room/house though

Yes, it handles the pet hair (1 rotti and 2 medium hair length cats)

Yes, you do have to empty the bin after every cleaning (but you do this with the regular canister vacs too, right?)

Yes you should clean the rollers about every 3rd cleaning

The battery life is about 2h. When we received Dusty, his battery only lasted 20m. I registered Dusty as a "gift" on iRobot.com, and they sent me a brand new battery. (Then I reset Dusty completely, and even the old battery lasts an hour now!).

I dont post here but want u to know i bought this last time it was available, it changed my life! I love it! No problems.

Your Roomba is getting bored sitting in the corner waiting for some dust to build up on your floor. Secretly, it wants to sing and dance and draw pictures. It wants to show you just how clever it can be.

http://hackingroomba.com


* Build a serial interface tether
* Set up a Bluetooth® interface
* Drive Roomba
* Play with sensors
* Make it sing
* Create a Roomba painter
* Use your Roomba as a mouse
* Connect Roomba to the Net
* Wi-Fi your Roomba
* Replace Roomba’s brain
* Build the RoombaRoach
* Install Roomba-cam
* Put Linux® on Roomba

Bought this last time around and we love it. Especially how it cleans under beds and collects tons of dog and cat fur. My wife sometimes says she spends as much time cleaning hair out of Roomba's brushes as she would vacuuming, but I disagree. Plus, I'm the one who had to clean/dig/pry hair out of the Kirby's beater bar & parts. Roomba also doesn't have Kirby's expensive bags.

Roombas are fun little things. I have three different models, including this one. Of course half the time I spend watching it vacuum instead of going about my business.

This model does fairly well at getting itself unstuck from carpet tassels and cords. It's strong enough to pick up a AA battery without me noticing. One of the coolest features about them is that they can be completely re-programed (or partially for those less inclined) to do anything that can be done with two wheels, a caster, a brush and vacuum motor.

This one has a home base which is very helpful. The only option it doesn't have is the scheduler, so you do have to activate it yourself. Of course you could always program in a scheduler 8o)

We love our Roomba. Ours is named George, and he is part of the family. He has been with us for about 11 months, still working well. Our new puppy barks his head off at George, but George just keeps on vacuuming.

just got on for the recently converted garage.

Anyone know if it can get under an Ikea Klippan sofa with the standard height legs?

I have two, and love them.

Know what you're getting yourself into, though. They're robots first, and vacuums second. If you don't have the time or patience for the maintenance required.. they may not be for you. www.robotreviews.com is a terrific Roomba-owner community that is an invaluable information resource on these little buggers.

I bought this last March and ours is still on the original rollers. We have three cats and ours cleans the entire upstairs of a 1700 sq. foot house. To say that this was worth the money would be an understatement. We loved it so much, we bought a second for my mother-in-law and she also loves it.

If and when this one dies, we may upgrade to the one that schedules.

No wonder we are a nation of fat asses. Too lazy to even vacuum a floor.

Hooray! I was kicking myself for not picking it up in August, been waiting for it to come back ever since. In for one, can't wait!

Kizzbot wrote:No wonder we are a nation of fat asses. Too lazy to even vacuum a floor.

Usually we turn our roomba loose as we leave for work.

No more vacuuming = more time to hike/bike/swim/jog

Path of roomba.



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mmiteshm wrote:Path of roomba.



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Oo... pretty..

Finally, Now I can replace my battery-holic discovery!

I have had my Roomba for three years with no problems. Have not had to replace the battery or anything else. I was pleased to see Roomba featured on the show Flipping Out. It worked so well, the housekeeper was jealous of it.

I always wanted a Roomba til I saw one at a friends house...kinda disappointing, and noisy