wingdude wrote:These vac are crap!! I gave mine to the Salvation Army..

Care to be a little more descriptive as to why you hated it?

The 80's called, they want their design back. Talk about ugly.

I bought this exact model from Woot a few months ago and I love it. I scheduled it to clean my house 4 times a week while I am at work and it does a surprisingly good job. I live in a 2 bedroom condo around 860 sq/ft no stairs, hardwood floors with rugs in each room. Would recommend.

bahhhh I said next time this came up I would buy it! But I find myself short on $$ and about to take a road trip

Bought the XV-11 from a previous woot after watching a comparison between it and the Roomba.

Neato wins hands down!

By the way, it avoids falling down stairs by sensing a change in light, but it's defeated by black carpet. If you have dark carpeting, erect a barrier on the top stair to make certain it can't fall off.

Or better yet, test it while you watch -- fascinating.

I want to cancel my order. Where do I do that??

ppbourke wrote:So we have little kids that leave little kid crap everywhere - barbie clothes, legos, torn up school assignments, etc, etc. I'm guessing this thing is pretty indiscriminate & picks up everything. What size crap does it pick up, and what does it leave behind for the billy lids to pick up?

Sounds like a learning opportunity to me. "The Neato ate my Barbie clothes - maybe I should put them away next time."

I wooted one of these in March, during a woot-off. I share a house with a couple, and we all have long hair. They thought I was nuts.

We're thrilled with it, and it's been a wonder on our carpets.

We're very happy, and probably going to get Neato's extended warranty.

fighterflight wrote:
I wish this wasn't necessary because I need the tape to establish recognized doorways

Easy answer: Buy another roll of tape off the Neato web site and be happy and vacuumed.

We had to tape off some bookshelves or it tries to climb inside them. Easily fixed.

Again, we like this and are very happy with it. It's recharging right now.

ppbourke wrote:So we have little kids that leave little kid crap everywhere - barbie clothes, legos, torn up school assignments, etc, etc. I'm guessing this thing is pretty indiscriminate & picks up everything. What size crap does it pick up, and what does it leave behind for the billy lids to pick up?

I find that it tends to push small things like that under my furniture, rather than picking them up. It'll pick up pet hair, dirt, etc., but anything that's larger than, say, cereal just seems to end up pushed under my furniture. No kids here, but three kittens with lots of toys. I've only had one cat toy sucked up by the Neato, and it was a small, soft ring akin to a hair elastic. All the other toys, I find under furniture after the Neato has made its rounds.

I still use a regular vacuum on the weekends to get under the things that the neato can't, but it does a great job at daily pick-up. I have noticed two issues with it, however:
1. At first, it kept insisting on trying to go underneath a TV stand where it would get stuck. I fixed that by putting a flat wood carving about the size of a large book under the TV stand, which somehow taught the Neato that it couldn't fit under there. If that hadn't worked, I would've used the black strip material that they send to mark areas as off limits.
2. The Neato has regular standoffs with my wine refrigerator. It will bump into the refrigerator, back up, change its angle by about 5 degrees, then ram into the refrigerator again. It does this over and over, and rather than rotating in one direction so that it eventually turns around and leaves the refrigerator alone, it mostly goes back and forth in the 5 degree increments, which means that it just keeps hitting the refrigerator. It will also occasionally just have standoffs with the wine refrigerator, where it will just sit in front of the fridge, bleating at me to move the object in its way. I suspect there may be either a crush or some territorial issues between the two.

Edit: After reading about the software updates, I just updated my Neato's software from v2.4 to v2.6. Hopefully tomorrow will bring a friendlier relationship between Neato and my wine refrigerator.

Does anyone know where I can get stickers to make my XV-12 look like Voltron?

quantumspec1 wrote:Does anyone know where I can get stickers to make my XV-12 look like Voltron?

Sure: Right here

danieloneil01 wrote:The 80's called, they want their design back. Talk about ugly.

Next you'll be complaining about toilet seat designs. We really need to work on making toilet seats sexier. And litter boxes. Don't get me started on those- talk about ugly design. Oh, and MOPS! I mean, seriously, have you EVER seen a pretty mop?

danieloneil01 wrote:The 80's called, they want their design back. Talk about ugly.

Buy an autobot sticker, it really helps you be OK w/ the design...

quantumspec1 wrote:Does anyone know where I can get stickers to make my XV-12 look like Voltron?

www.redbubble.com

Search for "Voltron sticker" not just Voltron, or else you'll get mostly T-shirts and stuff.

I just purchased a bunch of stickers to make my Neato look like a Weighted Companion Cube, including Rat Man scrawling for the inside (under the dust bin).

In for one! First time I've bought a robot vac on Woot since 2006 Looking forward to it... Roomba gives it the old college try but he's clearly an affirmative action admit.

I currently own both Roombas and a Neato XV-12. While the XV-12 does WAY better on carpeted floors and rugs, the Roomba does far better getting every last scrap of dust from hardwood floors and a decent job from carpet. The side sweeper brush on the Roomba does wonders in corners and along the edge of trim boards, rugs, litter boxes, etc.. The neato fails to get these areas with its floor beating blade/brush. The neato has a far more powerful vacuum unit and has a pretty awesome cleaning pattern, but the Roomba does better with random loose dirt... it just randomly bounces around... . I would say the best bet would be to have the Neato run first, then a Roomba run the same area second.

Main dislike for the Neato - Consistently fails to navigate back to it's charging station. Roomba consistently finds it's way home.

Main LIKE for the Neato - the ability to clean, charge, resume cleaning. The roomba hasn't quite done this yet... If I were to pick another robotic vacuum cleaner, I would pick Roomba for the ease of maintenance, but for the price, Neato makes quite the argument. I keep waiting for a software update that fixes the docking problem.... perhaps it will come soon.

--Micah

When you compare the cleaning ability (suction power, etc) of these robots to a Kirby...there is no comparison. If you really want a good, powerful, well made vacuum, get a Kirby. We have one and its amazing.

Loved our roomba....until one day we were out while it was running and the dog (who never does this) had done the #2 on the carpet...that's one way to visualize the Roombas cleaning pattern.

Been too afraid to use one since.

Any chance that the Neato XV-12 will moofi ??
Or any deals out there?

ktarnold1 wrote:Any chance that the Neato XV-12 will moofi ??
Or any deals out there?

If you're looking for a deal right now, give the folks over at deals.woot a challenge in Ask the Community! They would be glad to help.

Shipped via FedEx - I'll have it tomorrow! Wow, way to go Woot

this is the fastest i've ever received ANYTHING from woot!

definitely going to plasti-dip it ;]

It's here, and my carpet hasn't been this clean in months!

Got mine on Thursday and it works good so far. I am having trouble getting it to start on its scheduled cleaning. I have looked online to see if anyone else is experiencing this problem, but I seem to be the only one. Maybe I am doing something wrong. Other than that, it cleans like the devil and is cool to watch going around the various rooms in my house.

It arrived, I followed the quick start guide, but I have a dark LCD screen. There is nothing in the guide, manual, or on the Neato site that discusses what to do to make the thing work if the LCD is dark. I've contacted customer service to see whether there is a fix or if this is a defective unit. I hate receiving stuff that doesn't work out of the box. Big let down.

The battery had some problem or my sets had problem. It will lost power if I remove the power connect for a night (I don't measure it). How can I call for repair?