Product review (4 stars): a great little washer but how long will it last.
i bought this item on may 9,2013. fedex delivered it to the wrong apartment but, luckily, the person was honest & brought  it to me. i had contacted Sonya and Amazon (about not receiving the item) who promised it would be handled in my favor. however, Sonya did not require a signature for confirmation of delivery. i do not like that. if signature had been required, it would not have been delivered to someone else. that was FEDex fault tho, not Sonyas.

now for the panda washer--i used it for the first time ALL DAY yesterday and it worked well. it cleaned the clothes as a big washer would. i had lots of clothes to wash from my granddaughter who is 6 and can go thru clothes fast. i did not want to cram the washer too full so kept it going with small loads. i put the panda on a little table in my bathtub  (also put a small storage container in the tub for 1st rinse). when the panda had finished 9 min of washing,  i took the clothes out of the panda and put them in the container, filled it with water and rinsed them. but while i rinsed them, i put in another load to wash in that same sudsy water and washed them too. i used the same water to wash two loads before emptying it.  her clothes were not that dirty to begin with. saved some water plus detergent. after the rinse in the container put the clothes back in the panda and set time for 3 min to rinse them the second time. this worked for me. DO NOT BUY a large salad spinner to extract water- i did and it DOES NOT work. spent 100.00 and regret that b/c now i need to buy something to spin the water out. the clothes were still very wet when i had to take them to the laundromat to dry them rather than hanging them up.. but the panda did exactly what it is designed to do. now for how long it will last is anybodys guess. i hope it last at least a year or more b/c it will pay for itself 3-4 times over by then. i hate to go to laundromats- you never know whats been in the washers previously.  i'm happy so far with the panda. once you establish a routine, your wash does not take that long, depends on amount of clothes you have to do. machine was not really loud at all. oh yes, i do have the handheld shower attachment in my tub which is a "must have" if doing the wash in your tub-- makes it so much easier. only gave it 4 stars b/c don't know longevity of panda.