Product review (1 stars): Terrible. Useless. Would not recommend to my worst enemy.
This is the most terrible washing machine I have ever used. BEWARE! STAY AWAY from any top-loading washing machine that does not have a center agitator. IT DOES NOT GET YOUR CLOTHES CLEAN. Instead, it inspires feelings of hatred, frustration, anger, loathing, and revulsion because it simply does not do the main and only thing that it is made for (washing clothes).

This machine has a silver sensor in the center of the bottom of the machine, and you have to arrange your clothes around the sensor and make sure you do not cover up the sensor. Fine, no problem, I can do that. In fact, I am VERY purposeful about knowing the instructions in detail for how to appropriately use the washer. The user's manual says, "Load dry items loosely in the washer basket. For best results, load items evenly and loosely around the outside of the basket." However, no matter how exactly you make sure that you arrange the clothes perfectly and use the precise amount of the correct High Efficiency soap, this washer WILL NOT WORK.

At the end of EVERY cycle over the past 5-6 months, I consistently experience all of these problems:

  Clothes are not clean
  Odor is not removed
  Certain portions of various articles of clothing never even got wet
  1-2 items per load have large, slimy sections where they are still coated with soap (even doing an extra rinse)

Another negative is that the washer is HUGE and looks like it has a giant capacity, but you cannot put many clothes in it because once you arrange them to a certain height, they start to fall down into the middle and cover the sensor. The user's manual gives the following example of items for a "normal" load:

6 Shirts (Mens or Womens)
4 Pair Pants (Khakis or Twills)
5 T-shirts
7 Pairs of Boxers
4 Pairs of Shorts

OR

6 T-shirts
4 Pairs of Sweatpants
4 Sweatshirts
2 Hoodies
7 Pairs of Socks

When you put that much into the basket, it only fills it about a fourth of the way up, but if you put any more into the load, the results and cleanliness go correspondingly downhill.

I have used a very wide range of washing machines over the years - top loading, front loading, laundromats, etc. In general, despite variations in quality and modern cycle options, I have had no reason to complain about any of them. This washer, on the other hand, is so frustratingly, ridiculously USELESS that even though I have a washer in the house, I have to go to a laundromat if I am going to get my clothes clean.

The accompanying photo shows the sleeve of my coat after the completion of the "Bulky Items" cycle. I immediately put it back in on the "Heavy Soil" cycle and it came out just as dirty, at which point I gave up and put it in the dryer and went to post this review.