Product review (5 stars): their clothes now smell funny. At first I thought it was some off-brand ...
When my parents remodeled their home, they included a much touted second floor laundry room so of course they bought a fancy HE front loading Samsung.  Well . . . their clothes now smell funny.  At first I thought it was some off-brand detergent they were using so I started bringing my own whenever I visited.  And then I discovered that the smell was coming from the moldy build-up in the rubber gasket.  In addition to the weird smell, clothes didn't seem to get very clean.  Stains that are easily handled with a shot or two of stain remover didn't come out of clothes and I would have to rewash a load.  If it still didn't work, I would resort to the 'sanitize' cycle which means I would be spending several hours trying to get ONE load of laundry clean.

When I needed a new washing machine, I bought an old school Speed Queen.  It gets everything clean. Period.