Okay, (holds head in shame), I'm a certified wootaholic. Have been for a couple of years. DID YOU SEE THE PRICE ON THE FRONT LOAD WASHER AND DRIER LAST WEEK?. My Scooba doesn't leave marks on the hardwood floors, although admittedly it only hits the hardwoods when it "escapes". I generally use the Dirt Dog and Roomba on the hardwoods and the Scooba only on the tile (this is Florida, no carpets). I usually use a Swifter on the hardwoods after the robots have done their thing. It has, however, done half a room of hardwoods before I noticed it "escaped" from the kitchen or baths. The only issue I have with any of them is that the Scooba always wants to be emptied when it is invariably sitting in the middle of the kitchen and me and my dirty bare feet have to walk over damp tiles to "help" it. I have found if I just hit the clean button again it resumes what it was doing. The only carpet I have in the house is a large throw rug in my office and a couple rugs in the bathrooms. The Dirt Dog will get stuck on them but manages to unstick itself. The Roomba doesn't seem to like carpet at all but maybe it would be fine on wall to wall, rather than throw rugs. I don't use the remotes. I only have the electric walls and bases they return to in order to charge. For the record, the Dyson is fab when I have to clean up what the robots miss. I love my robots and hate that some of you have had bad luck. I think they are the greatest thing since sliced bread. Mr. B are you paying cable for digital phone, digital cable and digital internet (misnomer)? All you need is high speed broadband and the rest is either free or damn close. The video card in my computer will work the analog TV, Netflix supplies all the TV and movies I've never seen and Vonage the phone. All told $60 a month and $30 of that is the cable DSL (via Earth Link with no contract). I am glad though, that you've finally gotten on the digital phone bandwagon. I hopped on 3 years ago and can't believe how reluctant people are to the concept. I love technology, gadget junkie that I am.

I absolutely love mine. I'm an RE assistant so I'm on the computer constantly unless I'm doing something for the kids or trying to cook a meal, etc. Having things like vacuuming, or washing the floor, weighing heavily on me while I worked stunk. I can't even tell you how nice it is to have the room where the cats hang out, and have their food & litter, be vacuumed for me while I work. The one I have is programmable so it can start without me having to do so. When it is done it returns to its docking station and charges itself up for the next go. The other rooms don't get as dirty as quickly (no litter), so when I need'm to work in one of them for me, I give him a lift, plop'm down, he goes to work, and I go back to work. I had ordered the Scooba first because we have so much tile, and the floor scrubbing was much harder on my back than vacuuming (although vacuuming is a close second!) and we were so pleased with it, we went for the Roomba. No complaints here. I will say, I don't think it could've handled the heavy duty vacuuming a few days of my cats furry tumble weeds require. So DBF gave the room a good going over with our Dyson first, and now the Roomba does the daily maintenance. Any furniture I purchase from here on out will be done with my little helpers in mind. I'd love it if they could just zoom right under the couches like they do tables/desks/beds etc.

I've bought several things from WOOT and the only problem I had was with the first item I ordered, a Roomba. They shipped it FedX, signature required. I didn't know that that was how they were going to send it. I had just started a new job so I couldn't stay home and wait for it. After three tries to deliver I got a note saying it could be picked up at their main facility which was 40 miles away. There was no way for me to get there during work hours. I tried and tried to get them to transfer it to the facility next to my office, no. I tried to get them to deliver without a signature, no. I tried to get them to deliver to a neighbor, no. I asked them to deliver to my office, they said YES ... but they never did. Somewhere along the line I called WOOT and asked them to deal with FedX and they tried, but still, FedX wasn't budging. Over a week went by and finally I had hassled FedX so much the people who answered phones knew me by name. When they messed up and forgot to send it to my office, I called and really raised the roof. The regional manager delivered my Rooba to my home at 8pm on a Friday night! WOOT wasn't really to blame here but just make sure if you order from them to ask about their shipping. Jodi-

We try to buy made in the USA Cindy, but don't always succeed - of course. Quite simply, I do not care for Walmart. I'm sure there are stores/businesses you don't care for. I'm sure there are bad things about Amazon. Lukki. I didn't see that show. My brother actually works at Amazon and is quite happy there. I like that I can search for what I want, research the item if need be, and quite often come up with a very good price - and then have it delivered. We have prime and while I rarely order something that I need in 2 days, I do like the quick delivery. I will say that the very few (maybe 2) times I've needed to return something, customer service was excellent. Still, I'm sure there is a downside. Amazon reviews are a good thing in my book and sometimes I'll even read the reviews there even if I'm purchasing the item elsewhere.