You're very kind. Thank you

I have been onto their support, apparently dispatched means its packaged up and ready to leave the warehouse. They want to change shipping option for me too and I have said go ahead with standard or regular mail. See what they come back with.

Keep us updated Gareth and keen to see feedback on the product. cheers

I just got that email, ordered on the 29th, been 'dispatched' since about the 1st but now on the 7th I get an email saying it has been 'shipped' (is that not the same thing as dispatched?). Email has a tracking number for Yodel who say my parcel is still 'With sender' and has been since the 1st.

Don't know what that means for estimated arrival date but jeez they could be a lot more clear about the order process.

I think so. It's anecdotal but when packages have gone through regular china mail to me, although they take far longer they do not gather customs charges even when they should. I've shipped big things by Fedex, UPS, DHL they've always sent me a customs bill later.

I don't think it makes any sense to warn you about that since you paid for expedited shipping unless it's out of the kindness of their hearts over customs charges, or it's a money-grab. Make sure if you switch to 'standard' shipping you get the difference in value compared to expedited refunded.

So does that mean that with "Expedited Shipping" I have more chance to go through customs? If so I am maybe better asking to use the "standard" one.

Looks like they've got a case of 'stupid'. If you order expedited shipping, that's not the default, you chose it on purpose knowing full well that most of the proper couriers will process customs charges.

Anyway I haven't got mine yet but it should be due 9th-12th so next week. No tracking number either. "standard shipping"

Mine was still not dispatched so I got in touch with them:


This is a bit worrying. I placed my order with "Expedited Shipping" so I have no idea when this will arrive and I don't know if I will have to pay customs. To be honest customs is something I didn't think about at all. Anyone received it?

From Eufy's website:

"How does RoboVac navigate?
I think that settles the quickest argument. The scanning system of this model will map the room so it'll cover everything once. The eufy will do the classic thing of bumping round a room on a random path covering some places many times and others not at all but because it's covering some places multiple times it'll take far longer to finish. As for quieter, I have no idea, quieter seems to go against good cleaning.

How much of a difference does it make? Depends on the room but I've seen reviews saying 45 minutes for a random bounce pattern, 20 minutes for room-mapping.

Nope, this seems to be more clever but I don't know which one is more silent and quickest. There is no comparison online. Don't know yet. Does anyone know?

Think the redemption limit had been reached. Have expired.

Did you figure out which one to go for? The eufy is £220 delivered on Amazon prime so was tempted with that.

Price now shows £339 before discount!!!!???

Same here.

I messaged them and they said once the package leaves the warehouse a tracking number will be emailed.

Yeah it can't do this. Although I don't really see any need for it to do this if I'm honest? I'm out, the house is empty, clean everything you can see please.

It takes mines about 20 minutes to do 20 square meters. This allows for it finding its way around the dining room chairs etc. Its usually about 80%ish battery when its finished doing that, so fag packet calculation could do 100 square meters on a single charge. If it is a bigger area than that, I would imagine it just takes itself back to the dock to charge then continues.

Update, Yoshop claim my vacuum has been dispatched. No tracking number so not sure if that's true. Will have to wait and see.

Fair enough & the best of luck. My latest message from them:

"Dear David,

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Please help to provide requested documents for completing transaction review and the documents you provided should be clear enough to read. Please reply this email directly with attachment below 5MB per picture.

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Any site wanting credit card pictures, statements, bills, address, driving license ect AFTER accepting payment for the item is a complete scam in my eyes.

I'm gonna give them the benefit of the doubt but if nothing's turned up by the end of October then yes I will get a refund. Paypal's happy to process one up to 6 months later iirc.

I would try to claim your money back CampGareth, it's a scam website.

First time I haven't with a site I didn't know. I was in a rush & as hotdeals was promoting it I thought nothing of it.

I would try to get your money back straight away then. It's 100% a scam.

Hmm, for a quick clean you'd be better off with a real vacuum cleaner. You'll be able to do the key bits (remember the robot will do under the sofa, under beds, places guests won't see) and you'll do a better job. The robot won't hold as much dirt as a real vacuum either.

You could avoid the whole situation by letting the robot run once every day or other day. It'd maintain an acceptable state of cleanliness at all times so you wouldn't need to suddenly clean for guests.

How long would that take though, to do the whole floor - likely a fair bit of time? Was thinking if one is short of time (expecting guests at short notice, have other plans soon, etc) could get it to focus just on rooms that need cleaning, to get done in a shorter period of time.

Probably fairly easy to implement in software I would imagine, and would certainly add value for many consumers

Forgive me but I don't understand why you'd want to do that? Like, with the pause for recharge feature it can probably cover about 400m^2, so why wouldn't you want it to cover your entire home every day? Mine probably doesn't need a vacuum every single day, every other day would do, but when I want it cleaned I want the entire thing cleaned.

I see.. I meant on selecting different rooms on any given day, on a interchangeable basis rather than permanent margins like the 'virtual walls' appear be.

It would appear that isn't a feature then? Shame as it would probably be not difficult to add that as an option on the software / app

You could use the 'virtual walls' magnetic tape to close off rooms? Otherwise I don't think there's a way. I saw mention of it in a review of V2 but it was a chinese review with google translate applied so it might have been talking about spot cleaning. Or anything really.

Is it possible to specify particular rooms to clean only (instead of all rooms on the floor)? From the app perhaps?

I used Paypal and haven't recieved an email like that. I would also always advise using your credit card for such purchases as it offers you some protection over your debit card.

Hopefully you ran this through Paypal so can claim the money back worst case.

I would hold back on ordering anything from here. I bought this and have just received an email asking for a picture of my debit card for 'Verification' even though they have already taken my money. Seems more than dodgy :disappointed:

I paid in dollars with my post office credit card and it came off as £200.31

You guys won't regret it, I set mines up yesterday and its fantastic.

Got a notification on the phone in work telling me it had started its scheduled clean and another notification later telling me it was finished and had made its way back to the dock. Looking in the app it made its way through the kitchen/dining room/living room/entry hall

I want another one for upstairs now

Thanks for the deal spot Chanchi. Payday just rolled around so I've bought one.

These may not be as good as a full sized mains vacuum but given we don't even manage to vacuum once a week at the moment and have hard floors, short carpet everywhere that'd agree with this bot, it'd be a massive improvement.

Omg, that is hilarious!

Thanks OP, I was looking for such a deal. Ended up at 208.31 with "express delivery".


Hopefully one of the best smart vacuum in this ballpark!

beware of pootastrophe if you have a dog, : reshareworthy.com/roo…op/

shows as £206.15 with code at checkout for me (shipping cost coming up as £7.14)?

has anyone actually bought this for £199.02

Haha, it's when she lets rip that cleaning is needed!

Anyway, all of our flooring is either wood or tile, with 2 rugs (which could be sacrificed). But I'll take you comments on board and look at that Dyson, thanks.

(although I do love techie stuff..)

With this one, can you tell it which rooms you want cleaning via the app ?

I've got a iLife v7 and that's the one thing that would make me upgrade...

Seems like a great deal seeing as the new one is twice the price and not shipping for 6+ weeks.

Predicting how women will react? Interesting idea, let us know how that went.

Unless you have a huge open space with laminated floors, then not really. Most UK homes are small, have rugs, and too much surface clutter.

One of those Dyson hand vacuums however, much handier. The V6 is small and OK for tidying up cereal spills, also only £129

top tip, spray the baby's clothes with polish and 'er rip.

Ok, LADIES, important question...

Would you go ape-s***, potty, mad, etc etc, if your loving husband purchased this as part of your xmas present?

Now, before you say "cleaning is not just a woman's job" etc, I will agree. The trouble is I work away from home and my wife has a 1 year old at home, so I'm thinking it would take some of the strain off her.

Tentatively awaiting replies... :smile:

I was quoted £31.44 (+£198.53 for the robot)

Slightly cheaper on Geekbuying, showing as £190.89 from HK for me
Delivery's expensive with Geekbuying! Makes Yo Shop cheaper.

Looking at buying one and wishing I had a time machine to go back to when they were £170.

How do things like this deal with getting in to edges and corners? It seems that my hoover is on the way out and replacing it with one of these does seem like a fun (and surprisingly cheap) option, but it seems kinda pointless if you still need a normal hoover to use every so often to get into the corners once the dust and dirt has accumulated there after a while?

I guess if its not that great for those areas, I could just buy a cheap car vacuum and pretend I'll also sometimes vacuum inside my car, when we all know that I won't. At least it'd see some use though, rather than just accumulate so much dust that it'd need hoovering!

Just waiting on my one from the last deal, £15 dearer I think. Hurry up

Struggling to find United Kingdom in their drop down list of countries??

i want one to simply annoy the cat.... awesome toy but house way too small to justify... :smile:

If you are that lazy pay a cleaner.

How do these cope with corners, such as the end of kitchen units where the plinths meet the side panels? I'd like one of these to keep running around the kitchen as it's a main thoroughfare and gets hoovered several times a day but most if the bits of dirt seem to congregate/migrate into the corners and I don't know if this would get to them?

Heat added :grin:

This or Eufy Robovac 11 or one of ilife's on the same website?

Alexa controllable? As in trigger it to start or do an area?

Nice for hard floors as most Chinese homes do - whom Xiaomi designed it for. Just don't expect it to work on any carpets with reasonably thick/long pile. It also won't climb from hard floors onto rugs with long pile either.

Otherwise, they're quite nice. Novelty value is quite long-lasting.

Source: used one in China.

Great price for this version.
I'm waiting for the 2nd generation to drop to a reasonable price, and it'll be replacing my Roomba.

What's the length of the warrantee? Problems if it breaks/stops working?

Cheers chichi, saves my legs...



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It's bloody always like that. You wait and wait and wait and price is not going down. You order something and then it's cheaper 10%

Will this model be ok? :wink: