Product review (4 stars): The plastic is thick and sturdy, the construction is so dead simple that I'm ...
Got this about two months ago, in order to save myself disproportionately large laundry bills.  Paid for itself in the first month.  Many people complain that the spin dryer is too loud, but if it is loaded properly (only about halfway up) then it finds it's center after about 30 seconds and gets on with just a low whir and little vibration.  The washer does make some noise, but it's a washing machine.  They make noise.  I usually put mine in the bathtub when I use it and just leave the hose down for simplicity's sake, and in a convex bathtub bottom it's surprisingly stable and doesn't move about if you pay attention to the water fill lines and load sizes.  The plastic is thick and sturdy, the construction is so dead simple that I'm reasonably confident that if it stops working I can fix it myself (each side is essentially an egg timer connected to a motor, and the drain is a latching seal. Someone complained that the soft and normal wash settings are the same, and given that you can feel the *Chunk* when you open and close the drain I really have no idea what the soft setting is supposed to do or how the switch could affect that motor).

Biggest problems I have with it are lint, which is always going to be an issue with a spin dryer and a gravity-drain washer, and making sure I remember to switch it back from drain to normal after use.  Bathtub solves the latter problem and a lint brush helps with the former, although I'm going to look into a lint trap and am strongly considering picking up one of the small heated dryers that are available that handle wash loads about this size and can deal with lint.

One final consideration that others may not have thought of: if you run this unit (or any similarly sized small washer) on the floor with a properly balanced load, it will be as near to silent as you can hope for, but you will have to pick it up to allow the gravity drain to get rid of the water, and while it's fairly lightweight when empty, a full wash load is quite heavy for anyone with a bad back or various other physical considerations.  For a general idea, it weighs roughly as much as a large plastic bucket of the type you'd find in custodial or construction situations when full.  I wouludn't recommend it to my grandparents, essentially.