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Shark IQ Robot with Self-Empty Base

$299.99
$500 40% off Reference Price
Condition: Factory Reconditioned
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Top positive review
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Listen, hold your breath....can you hear the thundering silence of me not having to vacuum?
By Richard Hennry on Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2020
Where to start?With the bad, let us get that right out of the way. The mapping is abysmal, truly, we have run Bruce (if you can name a Shark branded robot vacuum, what other name than Bruce would you choose) 25 times, he is nowhere near mapping our house, compared to my brothers robot from a competitor who rhymes with BOOMBA, which did it in three runs. This Shark does not even play the same sport....this prevents me from doing room specific vacuuming. And that is it. Unless you have a multi story house, where this feature is a must have, set Bruce and he will clean you house. Wonderfully. Next, the not so great, Bruce is so mentally challenged. For a smart device, he is pretty dumb, but you want to know something, Bruce is determined. He will get the job done. He may have to fumble and bumble his way about, but he will get it done, and, if you watch, he does get a little smarter each time, just a little, but it is noticeable. Bruce used to do the house in large, long swaths, now he breaks it into one half of the house, then the other, and just the today, a new feature, he went around the perimeter of the house, cleaning the base boards. Small steps.As for his vacuum, top notch, perhaps too good. Bit of advice, if you get your own Bruce, run the beast on low suction for at least the first 4 or 5 runs....another con, Bruce does not know when he has eaten too much, and like a greedy guppy, he dies...locks up and cries for help... remember, I told you Bruce is not bright, but he is a work horse. When this happens, you cannot tell Bruce to restart, he has to start over, and hopefully one of Bruce's engineers will fix this, since Bruce will never know how much he has consumed, he has not the ability. Perhaps a command to send him to his base to empty himself, or a shorter duration than the 30 or so minutes it defaults to.Oh, and the base, the self empty….I am sure robot vacuums before the base were fine, if tedious, since you had to clean them every time….but the base, oh the base is pure genius. Bruce’s base is perfect, we take up with a button, and open it with a button, and never have to touch the refuse. No bag to buy, just push a button, the bottom opens and all that stuff drops out.If you have not noticed, but this family loves Bruce, we are now looking at getting Bruce a skin, to spruce Bruce up a bit…We have had Bruce for a week now, barely, but already Bruce has made an impact. I absolute honesty I cannot recommend this product enough, it works, it has quirks, but it works, and very well.Bit of adviceTurn on all your lights until your Bruce gets a good map of the area, he is a camera based robot and needs to “see" the ceiling, mostly, for landmarks.Run it on low the first few tries, while Bruce bounces around the first few runs, then move to medium and so on. Remember, Bruce has no sesnor in his bin, he uses a set algorithm that tells him to go back to his base and dump his load. It is terrible. But his vacuum is great, so he gets too full too fast. I can manage it a little for the quality of his cleanup.Because our house is neither toddler nor robot ready, we did not have all our rooms ready, and so we began mapping with the bedrooms and bathrooms doors closed. This turned out to be a blessing in disguise, the mapping is not great, but it does move forward, slowly. Bruce stared being more efficient in our great rooms’ right about the time we added the bedrooms and bathrooms. Our house, 3 bedroom, 2 bath, 2 great rooms and a heart kitchen, Bruce can do it on one charge now, I think because we basically added one room a day after his initial runs.I think you can tell, Bruce has been a wonderful addition to our home, truly, a robot vacuum was a luxury I didn’t think worked. It works and now I know what gift I will give every new home owner I know. There a lot of options out there, some a lot cheaper, and if those meet your needs, get them, some a lot more expensive, and aside from one specific feature Bruce does not have,( multi floor mapping) I cannot imagine they are better.UPDATED 2/19/20Mapping works now, had to delete the map once , run it three times, and bang! house mapped. Room specific vacuuming unlocked! Suggestions to others having issues. Delete the map and ( and I think this part is important) run the vac with every light you can on. The robot "see" and makes its map on your ceiling, the more light, the better it see's.To reiterate, my little robot, Bruce, has literally changed my house...cannot recommend enough.Updated 2/5/21A year later and no regrets. One of, if not, the best purchases I have made for my home. I will state again Bruce is an addition to the house and family, he is almost a pet....a very dumb, but very hard working pet....he is like a toddler...he seems to always want to be where you are... He cleans your floors and carpets...If you are on the fence about buying a robot vacuum...let me put you at ease...buy one, this is no longer a luxury to my home, they are a requirement, utterly worth every penny. As for a Shark...I love mine. Works great, does what it is supposed to do. The only house I wouldn't think this is perfect for is multi floor homes. Short of that... a must have.4/28/23 Still the best purchase we have made for our home cleaning. No change there...but a small observation...recently replaced some furniture and changed the layout of our home. We had to move the dock from a north to south orientation to an east to west...and, I swear, it now navigates even better than before.
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READ THIS BEFORE YOU BUY
By Ajd041 on Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2020
***Third UPDATE---READ THISI've had this Shark robot for a little over a year, having bought it last year as a part of the Black Friday sale that went on for this vaccuum. I am very sad and disappointed to say that it died on me. It refuses to charge as of last week, gives no errors, and there's nothing I can do.What a shoddy piece of craftsmanship that barely worked for the year I owned it then died inexplicably after. DO NOT BUY IT unless you enjoy being constantly frustrated and disappointed by a terrible machine that will stop working right after the warranty runs out. One more time to make it clear: THIS PRODUCT IS TERRIBLE AND YOU SHOULD NOT BUY IT.**Second Update: Nearly a year of ownership on, and I have YET to be able to get this robot to produce a map that even remotely resembles my house so I can clean room by room on a daily/weekly basis. It just does not work, and I have no idea how to change it. I've heard that camera based robots like this one do require the lights on, so I've scheduled it to run at 12 every day and I purposefully open up the curtains to ensure natural light comes in. In areas where this isn't possible, I turn the lights on. Despite this, and months and months of trying and deleting maps over and over again, I can't get it to work. Seriously, get the Roomba i7. It's got a lot fewer problems, and admittedly is more expensive, but at least that one works! Don't get stuck with this barely functional robot like I did!*Alright, this is an update from my previous review based on about 9 months of experience with this Robot. It's pretty good at actually cleaning the carpets and getting rid of the dust around our home, but it comes with quite a few major caveats. It's convenient and functional, but problematic. If you want a GOOD robot vacuum, you'll need to go at least with the Roomba i7.To start off let me say that we got this robot after watching the video recommendation from the youtube channel vaccuum wars. I bought this because he said the robot was one he worked on, and he gives very thorough and great reviews. I wish I hadn't listened to him and gotten the Roomba instead.The single biggest problem I have with this Robot is the mapping feature. The app says it takes 10 runs to get a feel for your house. I have no idea how the feature actually works because... well, I've been through 5 maps at least and the robot has yet to get an accurate picture of my house that enables me to tell it to clean room by room. It's never worked, and this is supposedly a marquee feature of this bot. Usually, the map I get is some weird partial abomination of the front room and part of the hallway. It regularly enters the bedroom on accident and I have no idea why it seems to struggle with putting that into a map. Shark clearly has very little experience working with robot vacuums and it shows.For context, our house is 2300 Square feet, with a mostly open floorplan layout with a large front room that consists of the kitchen, living room, and dining area, with a long hallway off to the side that connects to all the other rooms in the house. One of the reasons we picked this bot over others was because it's a fairly large house and we didn't want to have to constantly empty the vacuum. We have a dog who sheds a decent amount and this robot does manage to keep the pet hair under control. I leave all the doors open while it cleans so it can build a proper picture. I did eventually learn that VSLAM (camera-based navigation) robots NEED to have the lights on or a source of ambient light when they're navigating so they can find their way back to the base so I began leaving the curtains and blinds open, along with a couple of lights on. Seeing as 3PM is the middle of the day there's plenty of natural light so we can save on our electricity bill by not having to keep the lights on, which I highly recommend you do if you can.The Robot runs every day at 3PM to do a cleaning of the house. Since I'm at home all the time now due to the pandemic I can catch it if it gets stuck, and boy does that happen often. We have furniture with metal bases that it sometimes manages to get itself into and stuck on. Also, heaven forbid you ever leave a single sock or dog toy on the floor before it runs---it will absolutely find them and get stuck. It also just adores eating our long drapey curtains in the bedroom even though I've positioned the magnet strip in front of it. The magnet strip has to be there because the App doesn't include no-go zones like for a Roomba or a Neato vacuum, not that I ever got the map to work anyway. It frequently just pushes the magnet boundary and gets stuck on the curtains. It's such a pain.The vacuum base where it collects the dust and debris after cleaning is very useful. I love not having to deal with emptying the robot constantly like I would need to with basically any other robot vacuum. It's not really possible to have them work in a big house like ours. It holds several cleanings worth of dust and I have to empty it about once a month (the robot will tell you that it's full). The robot does not consistently struggle to find its way back to the base or get lost in our house. Usually when it fails to return it's because it got stuck on a dog toy, not because it can't find its way back. Although based on other reviews, your mileage may vary.

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