that is 2 of us.
especially Chinese products have failed on me, like TCL smart tv and huawei phone, i would rather use US - EU products.

never heard of em. ill check em out.

Haven't owned a Shark but a former company I worked with did a design verification effort on a Shark upright vacuum. It was an independent test to confirm that the product lived up to it's advertising. Did it not lose suction? Was the projected failure rate ... whatever they claimed.

We left the experience very impressed. Not that we tested them against other manufacturers or other models, we tested one and tested their product claims. Said claims were accurate.

As far as products made in China, a lot of stuff IS made there, the question is whether or not it is first designed there and then how well they did with the effort. We get a lot of chips and dev kit boards and some of them the documentation clearly started in Chinese and it was translated very poorly. Their support site is non-existent, there's little you can do to get questions answered. This vacuum I got had like 7 or 8 languages in the documentation, the English variation was fine and readable, so no poor translation. It also has a warranty which seems normal/reasonable. Whether or not it's fully designed and made in China, Taiwan, Korea, or elsewhere doesn't seem to be a product problem here.

I had a Roomba and it worked quite nicely for routine vacuuming. Every six months or so, it was still necessary to do a deep cleaning the old fashioned way.

After it died of old age, I didn't bother to get another one, but I'm thinking of getting one again, because I'm getting lazy in my old age.

Reduce, reuse, recycle; my parents got there's at a thrift store and replace the battery so is like new.

Add: my usual vac is a high end Dyson. Not sure if it is like Nike's where there is a lot of rubbish ones and a few good?

that sounds nice, i trust also Korean stuff, i have a good television from LG.

that also sounds promising, old fashion cleaning every six months is really nice. (i do my flat every week)

mine is 7 years old crappy vacuum which cost 40€, it really sucks (no pun intended, lol)

i decided to order iRobot Roomba e5152.

thank you to everyone who posted on this thread and gave suggestions / opinions.
it was a decision to choose US made and popular makers product which has positive reviews.

and it wasn't that expensive either.

it just arrived, its loud, collision detection is good.
i am just test driving it, havent gotten stuck anywhere and it has gone thru my flat. (like 95%)

and it cleans my floors very well

They deep clean carpet. For the first week in my flat I needed to empty everyday, then it tapered off to every 3rd unless big party.

lol, i am not going to hold parties on my flat, parties are always more fun at someone else's place :P

ill have to check out how much there is dust / dirt on my roomba. i just let it run for 30 mins.

It amazed me at how much dirt it got out of the carpets, don't forget the filter.
If you think about it tho with a regular vacuum we only run over a spot one to three times and normally only in one or so directions?

Soon we can quit our jobs!

it were one third/quarter full.
it had kitty litter and dust in it, and it found cat toys from under the sofa

ill have to say i am positively surprised by it.

I broke down and got a Roomba 600. I took it out for a spin over the weekend and it did quite nicely.

I did not connect it to my wireless, nor did I get their app. I can push the start button all on my ownsome, thank you very much!

Aside from the software updates and devious corporate minds I don't see why it is a thing? Maybe somebody bringing a date to see their apartment for first time? lol

Reminds me of https://player.vimeo.com/video/90679582 Andrew Huang(* &c paraphrased) saying "a few years ago if you thought companies putting secret chips to spy was crazy..."
I love voiding warranties!

The scheduling function on mine is awesome, as said I use it like an alarm clock. Then I push the button to pause it as I get moving and again to finish after I leave.

Any recall: There Will Come Soft Rains a short story by Ray Bradbury?

i did the same thing, didnt connect to wi-fi.

frankbell :

has ur Roomba talked to you yet? lol
i was like wtf, it said something in female voice and beeped couple of times.
i didnt hear what it said, i had music semi loud.