I was skeptical but it really does work! This little vac is perfect for cleaning up hard floors, in my case over 100 year old hardwoods. I was surprised that it even had the strength to clean up in between the cracks. We have some rather large cracks in some areas and it was able to suck it all up. It picked up fine dust, bigger particles such as some pieces of onion skin, dog hair, etc. I can imagine that for people with huge areas to clean, you may need to dump the debris depending on how dirty your floors are but for me the compartment is big enough. It is tiny enough that I could easily tuck it into a tight space for storage which is amazing! Very easy to switch the pieces and positions, just overall very very practical. For the price and size, I really was not expecting this vac to be so good. Knowing know what I do, I really think the value is higher than the price.