Product review (4 stars): Really great for small items/amounts of clothing!
Very Handy for small items of clothing!  We received our Panda MIni Portable Washing Machine a few days ago and began the getting acquainted process this morning.  We have 3 children in the house under 7, lots of small-sized underwear, socks, shirts, and face towels for drying tushies after using the bidet: each child has his own color.  We set the Panda on a small table inside the tub, which has both an overhead and handheld shower fixture, plugged in the machine after giving it a quick warm water rinse, and began filling it, a little less than half full, with three hearty squirts of liquid detergent, 5 briefs, 6 face cloths, and a shirt.  Yes, the timer knob is next to useless; we'll just have to learn how it works using a watch and marking the machine at 5 minute intervals.  The machine came on, started juggling for a couple of minutes and then stopped . And then started again.  And then stopped.  And then started again and then...well, you get the picture.  None of the reviews I read mentioned this starting/stopping action.  Is that normal?  We checked that nothing was tangled, that the machine was level and stable...I will have to call the company about it.  After 10 minutes of agitated washing, we stopped it, put the run-off hose attached on the right side face down, and let most of the water run out right into the tub..  We rinsed the clothes twice using the hand-held shower attachment, hooking up and then letting down the run-off hose in-between rinses.  When the water was clear we let the clothes spin around a minute or so, and yes, they had to be wrung out, but that wasn't too hard, and yes, everything was very clean.  A successful first attempt!  We will try washing some small gym shoes next.  We need to find out about the intermittent starting and also about a bit of unusual strained engine noise.  The machine is energetic but not too noisy and seems to do a very decent washing job. I purchased the Amazon warranty for under $10 just in case something goes wrong, but I think the machine has a 3 year manufacturing warranty as well.