Product review (1 stars): I wanted to love thee...
(This review is for this exact same washer, but I purchased it from the local hardware store chain.)

I wanted to love this washer.  It had all of the bells and whistles.  It was huge!  It would save me SO MUCH work!  We had owned front-loading washers for years and, thus far, our only complaint in those previous washers was that the lint trap was incredibly difficult to access.  (They had required dumping the washer on its front, opening the back, then taking off three spring clamps and a screw-on clamp to disengage the pump, clean out the trap, then put it all back together again.)  I could do this, but it HURT and took me forever.  Enter, this washer, with the lint trap on the front!  EUREKA!  SUCCESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

However, that turned out to be the only thing to love with this washer.

Now, admittedly, my family goes through a lot of laundry.  All I'm going to say is that I'm an adult who cares for two aging parents and leave it at that, because I love them to bits.  We also wash only with cold water and dutifully used the "tap cold" setting to keep the internal heater from engaging.  But, each time this washer was run, it would get so warm inside that I would have to cool it off for a minimum of 45 minutes to an hour between tubs.  If I did not let it cool off, part way through the next tub the whole laundry room would start to smell like roasting plastic and so would the clothes.  On top of that, it would only properly cool off in that time frame if the surge suppressor (a proper one rated for appliances) that it was plugged into was turned off.  If it was left on, the washer stayed warm inside even when it was not in use.  It was a little bit scary, especially since it occurred to me that people who wash with warm or hot water might never notice that the basin and clothes were extra-warm when you took them out.

The fact that this washer would also try to think for itself also turned out to be a serious problem.  So much for the bells and whistles.  Despite its generous size, I could only ever load the washer about 1/4-1/2 full because of the dreaded offense to mankind that was "load rebalancing," a stage it could enter at any point when the washer was supposed to spin out between cycles.  This wonderful stage was designed to make it so the washer balance an unbalanced load all on its own!!  It sounds AWESOME!!!  But, what it really did was take the tub and spin it very slowly, too slow to actually wring the clothing, grinding the pump all the while, and add up to an hour to the wash time trying to "balance" the tub on its own.  (I accidentally let it run an extra hour before I caught it the first time.  It could have run LONGER.  I've never actually seen a tub finish once "load rebalancing" engages.)  After this, the washer required watching during Every.  Single.  Tub. to make sure that it did not enter this stage again.  Leaving the house with it running was out of the question.  When I caught it in this stage, I'd have to first determine if the clothes needed rinsing, or just spinning, stop the washer, turn it off for a few minutes, and then put in half the load at a time for a rinse/spin tub.

Don't read the directions for how to load this washer.  They are useless.  This is how I learned to avoid "load rebalancing."
 - Don't load towels on their own.  Ever.  Mix 1-2 in with a clothing tub.
 - At most, only ever load the sheets from one queen-sized bed.  If the sheets are heavy, you can't even load that much.
 - Don't load chenille or microplush blankets, or even bath sheets, on their own.  EVER.  If you want to wash -one-, then you need to add something else that is super-light and fluffy like an afghan or large plushie, or even a standard pillow.  If you want to wash more than one, guess what?  That plushie is going to get REALLY clean because you have to wash each blanket separately.  (My poor bear...)

The washer always lied to me constantly, as well.  They were white lies, where it tried to be helpful, but they were still lies.  They would tell me that the wash would be done in X minutes on the beautiful LCD display and, when I returned to the washer at the agreed-upon rendezvous, it would still say it had many more minutes to go.  Surely I had remembered wrong, right?  I was merely anticipating our meeting?  This, I believed, until I started timing it using the timer app I had installed for another purpose on my Kindle Fire -- it whispered truths in my ears that belied the washer's lies.  It was adding time to EVERY tub.  And so I ran into another reason to keep an eye on every single tub and check it constantly as it ran, so that I would know when it actually finished. :(  It got so bad I thought about buying a video baby monitor to watch it just so I could stop annoying people in the kitchen by wandering through to check the laundry room.

It also lost its "spin" rather quickly.  When the washer was first installed, it spun things out beautifully.  Heavenly.  I got goosedown pillows spun out so well that they were fluffed by the end of the cycle!!  Who would have thought it was possible?  I could run them through a dryer once, and they'd be fit to sleep on by bedtime!  After we'd had the washer about a month it stopped spinning so well, and I was back to hanging them over a bed-rail and hand-fluffing them for an extra day or two before they were dry enough to toss into a dryer with a pair of tennis balls.  (The method I used with the old washer.)  I have a job, parents, and pets.  I have other things to do than fluff pillows multiple times a day that -had- to be washed.

In general, I did not run into the normal "washing machine" smell that one encounters with front-loaders, because I was already using Oxi-Clean to combat laundry smells.  So there was no mold or mildew that I ran into.  Oxi-Clean did nothing for the roasting plastic smell, though.

At the 5.5 month mark, the washer completely gave up the ghost.  No warning, no indication, it just stopped running and stayed full of water.  I cannot tell if what is wrong is a computer sensor, or the pump, or which part I should replace.  The only silver lining was that I ran it through a "spin" cycle and, despite not pumping out any water, I was able to get the door unlocked to get the clothes back out again and into a plastic tub.  Otherwise, some pricey work clothes would still be in there.  The other silver lining was being able to drain the basin using the lint tap, although since I lacked a 1" deep pan large enough to catch all of the water, it pretty much flooded the laundry room. :(

I have pretty much regretted purchasing this washer since the day I got it, as that was the first day I ran into load rebalancing and mystery smells. :(  Whatever perks it had were short-lived, despite being installed and leveled properly, set up right in the very spot my old washer once sat... and I'm shopping for a top-loader without a brain so I can once again wash clothing without any stress.