Product review (4 stars): know what you're buying, totally manual washer with design flaws.
Let me write this review for people who may be starting out in life, cannot afford much but may not fully understand what this machine does and what it's like to own and operate.
This is a manual clothes washer, not too different from an older style of what was called a 'wringer washer' your grandmother may have owned. This functions nothing like todays automatic clothes washer. Everything is manual about this device and requires your attention to go from step to step in the washing process. With an automatic washer you add clothes, detergent, close the lid, turn a knob and it does the rest, 45 minutes later you remove the clothes and put them in the dryer. This machine is nothing like that. Read on if this is news to you, otherwise stop reading here.
A manual washer, like this one is totally hands-on. You add water and control how much enters the tank. I use a short garden hose to do that. You add a tiny amount of liquid detergent then your clothes, close the lid and set the timer then come back in about 12 minutes. Next step is to turn the knob to drain the soapy water. There is a drain hose with an elbow bend. In order for this machine to drain properly the top of the elbow should be no higher than several inches lower than the top of the washer tank. I had to place my washer on top of 8" concrete blocks so it would drain properly into a nearby utility sink. Before I did that the pump could barely empty the washer, it took a long time to drain before I raised it.
Once drained you may hand rinse the soap from your clothes or use a hose to get as much detergent from the bottom of the tub as possible. Some people may even use the spinner to remove soap. Let me repeat something: this machine uses a TINY amount of detergent, like less than a teaspoon or you'll never get the detergent out of your clothes unless you run something like four rinse cycles.
Anyway, you refill the wash tank and run a rinse cycle, drain and transfer your laundry into the spin tank, then to another clothes dryer.

The entire process takes me about 75 minutes, similar to my old automatics.

Some thoughs about this machine (which I will add to over time).
1. It tends to roll and knot up your pants and shirts. By the time they come out of the spinner they are so mangled there is no way they could go onto a clothes line and not need ironing eventually. An electric clothes dryer helps with this problem.
2. It tends to wobble and rock when running because it wants to get your clothes into large bunches in the washer tank.
3. The machine hums and vibrates in any mode, the circular vent thing in the lid over the spinner vibrates and makes noise when either side of the machine is in use, if you touch it the noise stops briefly. I may hot glue it someday.
4. Apparently, the drain pump runs all it's own when there is sufficient water to remove from beneath the spinner side, so you don't need to switch it to SPIN and DRAIN at the same time.
5. I have not had any lint problem with this machine like some owners have reported.
6. I do not fill it anywhere near capacity with water or clothes so my reviews are based solely on smaller loads. I wear scrubs at work, my laundry usually consists of two pants, two tops, and underwear, socks, etc. I can do the whole thing in one load in the washer and spinner.
7. I set it next to my utility sink, up on blocks to raise it eight inches higher but I don't leave it run unattended since it wobbles a bit, I don't totally trust it not to tip itself over even with my smaller loads.
8. It seems to do a decent job of washing, yes there is some sort of plastic factory odor when the machine runs but it doesnt bother me.
9. The clear blue plastic filler port on top of mine is lose so I never use it, I just toss the short garden hose in the top since I need to stand there and manually control how much water goes in anyway. I seldom use more than five inches of water for the load I already described.
10. I agree with other users that the best procedure is to first add detergent then water, let it fill to the desired height to completely mix the tiny amount of detergent you use with this machine, then lastly add clothes and start the cycle.
11. I've done about 10 loads with this machine and so far I'm pleased with it's performance considering the price. I've had small washers before, some of them were even tiny automatics from Haier. As long as you understand this is not an automatic and will require you to be nearby most of the time it's running then this machine may be what you need.
12. After using for a couple months I noticed the drain pump sometimes doesn't work right. What I do is set a bucket on the floor, lay the drain pipe in it. Once it starts flowing, I shut off the drain pump and move it back to the sink and it works fine the rest of the time. I will repeat what I said before, ideally the top of the drain elblow should be about 10 inches or more lower than the highest part of the outside of the washer body (measured from near the control knobs).