Product review (2 stars): Disposable Washing Machine
My husband and I bought the Danby portable washer as a Christmas gift to ourselves.  We live in Brooklyn, NY and with a 5 month old baby at the time, were doing massive amounts of laundry.  At first, we LOVED it.  Such a relief not going back and forth to the Laundromat.  It was quiet and got the clothes clean.  We were very careful about not overloading it or using too much soap and we were happy.

Around 11 months after we bought it, we started hearing a banging noise during the spin cycle.  Unfortunately, that was also at a time of sleep deprivation and illness and it took a while to get a repair estimate.  When my husband told the woman at the repair shop this, she laughed and said that it seemed all Danby products broke after one year!  HaHA, ha...  Funny.  Which by the way, the ONLY shop in NYC that repairs Danby machines charges an $85 non-refundable diagnostic fee.

We paid the $85 and he told us it was the transmission, and that between the cost of the diagnostic fee, the part and the labor, it would probably cost more than the cost of a new machine to fix it.  He said sometimes, Danby would cover the cost of the part when it's so close to the warrantee cut off.  If Danby wouldn't cover it for us, they would let us know before they ordered it so we could decide to go forward or not.  I got a message the part was on the way and assumed that Danby would cover it.  Two and a half months later the part makes it to Brooklyn and the repair place has no memory of that conversation and we are responsible for the part.

NOT worth it unless you don't mind buying a new machine every year.