Product review (4 stars): Working out well so far...
I'm liking this hose well enough.  It's softer, more flexible, and bigger in diameter than the cheap little stiff plastic hose that came with my Whirlpool washer.  I was careful to let it straighten itself out in the warm sunlight when I took it out of the package, thanks to those one-star reviewers who said that it split down the middle right out of the package.  I'm guessing they were in cold areas and tried to straighten it a bit too quickly.  It does the job nicely, with no leaks.  I had to cut it down to the one-inch end size, and lost about four inches of length in doing so.  The advertised 8 ft. length apparently includes those parts that many of us have to cut off, because I now have about 7 ft. 8 in. in length, measured from the connection at the washer to the apex of the hook, right where it starts to bend back in the other direction.