I've had this washer for a few months now and it works well.  I was looking for something with as much mechanical as opposed to digital operation as possible.  It gets items very clean although it causes a little more wear than my previous washer.   There is a little bit of a learning curve when figuring out how to soak for longer periods of time and when the pause/start buttons need to be pressed if you add an item mid-cycle.  It also tends to really tangle sheets and they need to be untangled and another spin cycle run at the end, but hey at least it isn't flooding my porch floor every time I use it.