Ya. I was suckered into one of these too. You should see what happens to it after a few months. The seals in it went so there was a steady drip dripping of harmful cleaner. I have cats that are stupid enough to drink that stuff but fortunately I managed to catch em before they had started into that "heady liqueur".

TheCyberBob

I hate cleaning the bathtub. My solution? Get rid of it altogether and put it in a large walk in shower. Best thing I ever did. Stupid tubs. They're useless!

bxstrb

@MikeSWelch: that would be worth the cost just to see that. Well, I mean hear the screams anyway. The expression on her face as the warning beeps continued must have been priceless.

I'm waiting for iRobot to come out with a little Roomba for the shower. That would make my life so much easier...

weatherman

I also disagree with this review. Seems a little dramatic, but I got one after I found a 10.00 off coupon for it. Works just fine for me. It eliminated the need for me to scrub the glass once a month.

NoDeuces

@MikeSWelch: Ha Ha, my younger brother did the same thing once when my family was on vacation, I almost regret not going on that trip with them.

NCMO

Of coarse it's not going to keep your shower clean. It's supposed to HELP keep your shower clean for longer.

@scuba_steve_1: That's what I do, and it works great.

hagrun

I have have been using an alternate approach for years...and it low effort and makes my shower (tile and glass walls) gleam.

What's the secret? Replace your showerhead with a wand-style showerhead. Each time that you finish showering, grab the wand from the mount on the wall and spray the walls down.

This takes about 5-10 seconds...and removes the soap and shampoo that hit the walls while you were showering. The residual soap comes right off when it is still fresh...and long before it becomes "scum". With no scum, there is also not much to which mildew and mold can bond...so you just don't get it.

That's it. No squeegees, no chemicals...and the shower always looks fantastic. Spray with Tilex once every one or two months just to keep things fresh.

scuba_steve_1

Product reviews should always be this honest.
If it's good, tell me why you think it's good.
If it sucks, tell me why you think it sucks.
Nice work Giz.
And thank you for not comparing it to the iPhone in any way. I REALLY appreciate that part.

zanella

@KingSnakeX4: They're joking. Don't worrry, nobody really cleans their bathtub.

itchytooth

ive always wondered just how this damn thing would work. sure it would make it look cleaner but eventually all the soap running down the walls would just cause soap scum, which would eventually led one to clean it ANYWAY!!!

Glavan27

@N@tedog: Well then in that case, sounds good. Still seems a little bit of a waste as it swings from person to person, but thats just me.

jmurph05

You don't even need to buy a wife; just get a clean roommate. Even if he/she whines about it every once in a while, he/she will still clean up when things get really manky.

I can see this thing freaking the bejesus out of a cat who has gone into the bathtub to pee down the drain, because you wouldn't clean out his shit from the litterbox and now the finicky animal won't go in there.

Bitstuff

We actually bought one of these a while ago, and it was a royal POS. It doesn't even come close to hitting everything in the shower, not can it make it far enough to spray the far wall. It lasted 2 days, before we recycled it.

bms

@jmurph05: Try again. I said turn it into a concentrated stream. I'll also have the laywers throw a "wear protective eye wear at all times" clause on the back.

N@tedog

I dunno, I found it worked well for us. Battery life kinda sucked, but it did indeed seem to keep the soap scum down a bit.

Erwos

@N@tedog: That seems like a waste of booze... getting it all in a mist then sprayed at you? Seems like a bad idea waiting to happen. "OW the vodka burns my eyes!" sorta thing.

I think you should fill it with rubbing alcohol put it in a field somewhere, turn it on and light it! 360 degree flamethrower!

jmurph05

@mizunoer: if you start having sex with this thing then it might count as a replacement.

archercc

My mom swears by this so I know its crap. I love her but she buys the most useless junk ever and then tries to pawn it off on me when she gets bored with it.

archercc

Are you kidding?!? This thing is awesome!!! I had guests over, and one of the girls thought this was a shampoo dispenser. At first her screams worried us, but then we laughed and laughed.

MikeSWelch

Works fine for me. Sure it doesn't get the soap scum that is in the areas that the spary doesn't hit. But it does decrease the ammount of cleaning time for the entire tub.

spstewart

I've been using one for over a year with no issues. There's no leftover soap scum all over and I found that it actually did keep the shower cleaner than before.

Derrick

wait, you're supposed to clean the bathtub??

KingSnakeX4

I'd like to rewire one of these with a remote trigger and hang it in the conference room. Whenever that kissass colleague of mine goes off on a tangent, I could just hose him down hopefully blinding the mofo. TELL ME ABOUT YOUR KIDS, BITCH!

tinyhands

Once a day? Ha.

Try once every two months! Yes, my shower is filthy. But only the feet touch it, which makes it okay because the floors are also filthy. All because the landlord wouldn't supply a bucket to go with the mop.

Bitstuff

Just so you know buying a wife is just a little bit more expensive. Also this thing doesn't whine.

mizunoer

@Keebler: I had used the manual spray stuff in my shower for a while, and I really can't tell a difference. The only reason I continue to use it is because my brain is now trained to spray it from constant nagging about it.

jmurph05

Could you modify it? Make a concentrated stream instead of a mist and then fill it with booze!! Best game of duck-duck-goose ever.

N@tedog

SOOO TRUE

demiwashere

So really, all it does is shoot soap onto your walls, which you're then required to rinse/scrub off?

I'd just rather buy a wife...

Chromeo

Hahaha, thank you very much for trying this. As you suggested, I've wondered about these things numerous times, and always wondered.

From what I hear the "once a day shower sprays" that you use manually do work pretty well tho...

Keebler

@SomeAudioGuy:

Yeah but we LOVE lucy for it. this thing, not so much.

nutbastard

@Margatron:

"I thought the noise at night was my neighbours drilling"

ok is that a euphemism or not?

nutbastard

If you use body wash instead of regular soap, you should never get soap scum anyway. It is formed when the calcium ion in your water replace the sodium ions in the soap producing a water insoluble fatty acid compound. Regular body wash doesn't contain the fatty acid molecules but rather surfactants that doesn't react with the calcium ions. However, mildew is still possible. To prevent mildew, just spray a diluted bleach solution in the bathtub or shower after bathing.

BloggyMcBlogBlog

@mizunoer: Yes it does whine. OH how it whines. Like the battery operated AA battery uzi squirt gun I had as a kid.

It whines louder than I Love Lucy...

SomeAudioGuy

I just cleaned my shower the other day - phosphoric acid and a wire brush were just what the doctor ordered.

I knew this thing was bullshit... if just spraying some shit in your shower was all it took to keep it clean, they'd just sell that shit - IN A FUCKING BOTTLE.

nutbastard

Mine ended up turning on randomly in the middle of the night every hour or so. The soap from the bottle somehow got into the battery compartment, drying into a gooey substance between the battery contacts, breaking the circuit intermittently.

I thought the noise at night was my neighbours drilling and then I was randomly in the bathroom when I discovered the culprit. Needless to say, I sleep better now that I took the batteries out.

Margatron

I tried this when it first came out just to see if it works. It blows the big one - seriously.

You want a clean shower and it just gives you this filmy mess that you have to time just right so you don't get sprayed with the "cleaner". Even those "after shower" sprays suck.

Seriously - there's nothing really out there to prevent you from having to really scrub your bathtub/shower with Tilex and a scrub brush.

Especially if you have a 3-year-old who thinks its funny to pee in the shower.

Although, to cut down on soap scum - stop using bar soap. Switch to a body wash.

shorty63136

Dang! I forgot to mention, you can get a big bottle of the manual shower spray at the dollar store for...a dollar. Instead of 3 or 4 times that much for the name-brand stuff.

CSX321

I've used the manual spray kind, and it helps a little; at least makes it easier to clean. Which I do regularly once a year if it needs it or not.

We have a fiberglass tub and shower that I'm sure was very nice when it was installed in the 70s or so. One thing I do after I clean it is give it a coat of Rain-X, you know, the stuff for car windows. Waxing it with car wax works good, too.

CSX321

I owned two before I finally gave up on the idea.

The product is garbage. Here's why:
1. The solution is weak. I know it's intended to be used daily but even for that, it's still not strong enough, especially if you have hard water. It appears to do nothing to prevent mold and water stains.
2. The electrical contacts in the battery compartment rust because the compartment does not adequately seal. Water and solution gets into the compartment, contaminating the contacts and the batteries.
3. The hanger is faulty in two ways, a) One of my units fell to the shower floor and busted into many pieces. b) if you hang the unit from the shower head as instructed, it hangs down too low and doesn't spray the top 1/3 of the shower. To remedy, I had to hang it higher on the wall using a hook.
4. The solution is relatively expensive and on average we went through approx 2 bottles a month.

jejagua

I'm going to be the one who bucks the trend here, I guess.

I bought one of these things for our master bathroom which has a stall shower w/glass doors. I gave the shower a very thorough scrubbing top-to-bottom with Ajax w/bleach, so I was starting with a very clean shower. I then installed it according to the directions. I thought that using it once a day was a little overkill, so I decided to use it every other day instead.

I scrubbed the shower back in early March. It's now mid-June, two and a half months later, and the shower looks at least as clean now as it did when I scrubbed it. There is no residue anywhere, the glass doors are sparkling clean, there's no mildew growing anywhere, and it gives off a pleasant light scent as icing on the cake. (I also haven't had to change batteries in it yet.)

I bought a second one for our other shower (which has a full tub and a shower curtain, not a stall with glass doors) and it seems to be working equally well. My mother also bought one (full tub, glass doors) and it's great for her too.

Agent007

You know, I bet it depends on the softness of your water. Hard water make sit hard as hell to keep a bathroom clean.

maven2k

We had a coupon for one of these that made it almost free and it was still a mistake to buy. One night the batteries ran low and I heard it running at like 2AM. I got a nice facefull of cleaner as I was trying to kill it by pulling the batteries.

ekimmr

Yeah, I bought one and it was useless. I'm pretty sure my shower was less clean from using it. And it's not a big shower or anything. The claims on the box were that it would turn a dirty shower clean after a month, or keep a clean shower clean. All it did was eat up batteries.

Player4

agreed 100%. what's even worse is that they state that using it for 2 weeks will get rid of the existing scum/krappe in your shower. three weeks later, i was using Kaboom! on it. i was tempted to refill the expensive replacement bottles with straight bleach at that point.

completely worthless. save your $ and hire a cleaning person.

lolabella

Consumer Reports canned this product over a year ago. And I mean they really gave it a bad review. So while Giz may be good for tech perhaps some reading outside of the shiny bling may have kept the scum away.

FeliciaMakudonarudo

We've been using it for about a year and it works great for us. I don't know what other people are doing differently.

ron2112

I put my brother-in-law in the shower with this thing 'cause it says it removes scum. He's still around. This thing sucks.

Sora57

@jejagua:
1. I refill my own bottles with Method Shower cleaner from Target. There's an instructable on how to do it. I submitted how I do it, using gasket material rather than drilling holes.

2. I removed the seal supplied and added my own O-ring. I also added some di-electric grease to the contacts, so no corrosion.

3. unless your shower shoots at a 90 degree angle, it sprays about where the shower does. I have hard water, and I can see where the shower sprays(you can even tell on my wall where my elbow usually touches as there's no orange there).

4. See 1.

Git Em SteveDave has a crush on the Swedes

@Chromeo: "Why bathe when I'll just get dirty again?"

Also: "Only dirty people take showers"

wjousts

@CSX321: Waxing your tub seems like a spectacularly bad idea.
Unless you have some kind of harness to keep you upright while you shower.

wjousts

@Bitstuff:

You could circumvent all of this by simply not washing at all! Just stick to the old adage: "Why bathe when I'll just get dirty again?"

Chromeo

I've seen many reviews of this, all saying they suck. I guess that's the benefit of having a wife that subscribes to like 52 women's magazines.

mthrndr

I just use a rubber squeegee, after each shower, and run it along the tile walls and glass doors. It only takes about 1 minute of your time after you turn the shower off.

I haven't cleaned my shower in months and it looks perfectly fine. Sure you may still have to give it a basic cleaning from time to time, but it will help extend the time between those cleaning sessions.

And they only cost $5-$10!

frunk

As a rule of thumb, I don't trust any device which attempts to replace manual labour unless it runs on D batteries or bigger. AA? It was a lost cause from the start.

Sockatume

I am horrified by the number of geeks that actually bought this. I guess we are willing to do anything to get out of cleaning. Some of us, apparently, even got married.

Monty

Wow.
We just re-did our master bedroom bath and I was considering something like this to maintain our new shower with.

Good timing, man.

Thanks, Gizmodo!

strider_mt2k

i got it for next to nothing with a coupon and sale. it is junk. i like to run it right before my roommates get in the shower so they almost pass out from the smell of the cleaner and slip on the soapy buildup. aint i the worst...also i use it to hold my shower goodies, atleast one part of it works.

awperk

Pretty poor reviews of this thing are everywhere.

oopl

@DWD: Well, is there an option to rent one then? Or perhaps borrow someone else's?

Chromeo

@Bitstuff: I agree - and I found out the hard way about soap when I moved down here to Atlanta where the water is crazy hard. I was itching so much I thought I'd had some kind of allergic reaction. Didn't really have that problem in St. Louis.

And plus - I can't stand when guys use Irish Spring. It smells like detergent. (I'm a girl, btw.)

shorty63136

@Chromeo: Do you have any idea how expensive the alternate option is you suggest?!?!?!?

DWD

@shorty63136: You shouldn't wash yourself with soap anyway. It dries your skin like crazy, for one. I'm not going to get all girl-talk about what's best, just don't use soap, period. Shower gels and even shampoo for the menfolk are good.

The only scum then will be from dirty sweaty feet that doesn't wash off without cleanser. It's not nice, but not as bad or plentiful as soap scum.

Bitstuff

Count me in the crowd that likes this product - my wife bought one several months ago with a $15 coupon and the tub surround walls have sparkled since. Sure it doesn't clean where it can't spray (directly underneath where the faucet is) but the longest part of cleaning the tub is always wiping down the walls. It has made cleaning the tub a snap and has also helped keep the curtain mildew free.

If Gizmodo really wants to test this thing they should get one for Benny Goldman's bathroom: [gizmodo.com]

Fierock

damn, I really was hoping one of these might solve my filthy shower problem :(

shoelessone

FUNNY.. was looking at this the other day.. I ended up buyign the spray pump instead of the scrubbing bubbles roam, which works GREAT.

Hmm.. maybe you are just to dirty :)

Stacky Botrus

The main problem with it is the ambush factor. We'd had one for months, but due to tight finances, we hadn't been purchasing the refill cartridges. Like any good piece of rarely use gadgetry, it sat there, hanging from the showerhead with a very small amount of cleaner in it.

The first thing I do in the morning is shower. It warms up all my systems to be able to process input stimuli for the day. One morning, after leaning over to scrub leg bits, I hear a beeping sound. With the bathroom fan going, I think it's the smoke alarm in the hallway complaining about something. I shut off the water to determine the source, and PFTATATATATATATA! I'm pelted with chemicals. It's early, and I don't have the wherewithal to shut the thing off, so I turn to the side, take four more cycles of the thing, then proceed to take a second shower.

On the plus side, I haven't had soap scum on me for months.

bwildrick

These things are actually great, but the trick is that you have to drill a hole in the top of the bottle and fill it with generic dollar store Tilex... the solution they used is watered down soapy piss. Put the real deal in there, push the button every 3 days and you never have to clean again and you don't have to pay for new bottles of their overpriced garbage.

B

@wjousts: Just the walls, not the bottom of the tub! That would be a spectacularly bad idea.

CSX321

just get a maid service to come every other week to clean your bathroom. That's the ideal solution cheapskates!

bxstrb

I've been using it for 6 months now at my new house and it's been working great for me. It's a standup shower stall but a pretty roomy one but it gets most everything and I've only had to give it a once over maybe 2 times so far. I use it every morning after my shower. The only bad part is, it uses the cleaner pretty fast so it's gone in a month or so. But eh, beats scrubbing the entire shower stall every week!

So yeah...I don't know...maybe some people have hard water or something. But if nothing else, it's been working great for me and I've recommended it to others too...

Nobita

"after half a minute of warning beeps"
That's a lie.

I like this product. It works good. Without it, for some reason, my caulking starts to attract mildew even though I use ANTI-mildew caulk. Anyway, with this product that does not happen. Plus it does a pretty good job keeping scum off the glass doors. In my previous house I noticed it didn't do a good at getting BETWEEN the "waves" of the shower curtain. But then again, how could it?

This product is not meant to REPLACE cleaning. It simply helps and extends the period between cleanings. If you didn't know that when buying the product then there's a question of intelligence to address. I can only imagine the varying levels of filth in all the millions of homes on this planet. How can any ONE product be suited for them all? Hello!!!!

JEmlay

Have been using it for a while myself. As someone else said: it HELPS keep your shower clean. It is not a substitute for cleaning. I would not give mine up. Perhaps I don't have terribly hard water? Could that be the reason why I seem to have had a great experience using the product while some have had the opposite experience? Or could it be that some on here seem to think that it will totally eliminate cleaning? All I can say is that it keeps me from having to clean the tub every week. That in itself is like gold.

cptodd

Can you imagine how Joan Crawford would have freaked the hell out on Christina if she had used one of these? "SCCCCRRRRRRUUUBBBBB CHRISTINA!!!"

/end of obscure movie reference
//still scarred by that movie

meatlocker

@Chromeo: Buy a wife? Why buy when there's a free one right here: [gizmodo.com]

My roommate has this cleaner hanging in his shower and I have to agree with you BLam, it's a piece of shit and doesn't clean well at all.

Selcouth14

For those interested there is this:
Refill Scrubbing Bubbles Automatic Shower Cleaner for $1.00
[www.instructables.com]

If you live near a thrift store, these things come in from time to time, at least they do in my area.

DeadWriter

@bwildrick: You couldn't push the button? It's not that hard...... push....see? Simple.

You heard that beep for months and your memory bank couldn't fire properly to figure it out in time?

Hum....

JEmlay

We have one, but I modified it to hang on the shower door. We already have a "shower caddy" that hangs on the shower head which holds soap, shampoo etc. as I figure lots of people do. It appears to cut down on the "scum", but leaves a residue of its very own.

papabratton

Mine died completely after a few months, was not just a need for new batteries. It seemed to work fine while it lasted, though. However, based on how long it was working, I haven't bothered to replace it.

ackthbbft

Garbage. Used two bottles to no effect. Threw it away.

Shai

We use it and it works fine. You guys probably installed it backwards or something. Idiots!

GoatMonkey

I could tell from the commercial this was crap. And even if it did work, at best it would only clean a 1' strip around the middle of your shower stall.
Thank you for the confirmation.

AdmNaismith

@nutbastard: If only they knew the thing you do in the shower.
UGH
You mean are L-A-Z-Y!!!
I clean the shower at least once a week...AT LEAST!
If these things were effective and so damn great other people would be copying the same thing, it's natural for companies to do this.

Carmen HATES being sad

@JEmlay: I was physically capable of pushing the button. I hadn't actually heard the beeping in months, so that didn't help matters. I was about T-minus one hour to coffee, so no, I was not mentally able to put together "push button" and "stop suffering chemical splort".

bwildrick

i bought this piece of shit and used it for about a month. kept bumping into it when i showered until one day i knocked it off its rack, it fell the tub and broke several pieces off. what a waste of $20.. that's like a year's supply of the manual spray stuff.

dichron

@AdmNaismith:
How do you figure?

JEmlay

so, interesting story... My dad purchased one of these and hung it in the shower without telling me about it, and I had no idea what it was. So I was showering one day and thought to myself "What in the hell is this?" So I pushed the button, and it beeped for a second, then proceeded to spray me directly in the eyes with soap. Not the best morning of my life. It sort of made me feel like I was the leading man of one of those cryogenic sleep comedies, or maybe some kind of clueless alien.

roulettescars

@mlembeck: you work for them...don't you?

Carmen loves her NB

I have a mostly glass stand up shower and the thing works as advertized keeping the glass spotless and cleam. The one third of the shower that is not glass is also kept clean without me lifting an elbow. maybe you're just a really dirty guy?

mlembeck

No doubt. one of the worst products i've tried.

bubuli

I've been using one for awhile now with okay results.

Some notes:

*) I use Tilex as refill because it costs half as much

*) You don't need to drill holes in order to refill - Just force the top open with a pair of pliers the first time or two and then you can open/close it pretty easy.

*) I keep a plastic cup in the shower that I use to very quickly wash down the walls - Not every time, just whenever I think about it, which I'd say is less than twice a week

Even then it is not absolutely perfect, but it extends the time between full shower cleanups TREMENDOUSLY!

So for me, it is worth it.

DavidPFarrell

You can easily hack your own solution (Tilex, bleach, battery acid, gasoline, etc) into an empty refill bottle, but that doesn't fix the sucky sprayer. I'm going to turn mine into a 360 degree flamethrower and post the video on youtube.

vmspionage

As a girl geek I appreciate gadgets. when it comes to cleaning there is nothing that will replace the detail of just taking a sponge, solution, some elbow grease and doing it yourself.

Cooking, cleaning and baking are tasks I will never let a machine replace.

Did I mention I'm single?

tawni

@BrianLam:

Brian, just your headline alone was so brutally honest and to the point, I found myself laughing. I heard from a friend that this product was a *disaster*, but I can just picture you looking at the abysmal failure of the non-scrubbing bubbles and just cursing it out right then and there. Oh BLam a video of you being so mad would have been so good, too good....

You have to give them credit for that cute little scrubbing guy cute eyes on the box, that just say pweeze pweeze buy me.....he kinda reminds me of The Brave Little Toaster.

LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M

@Carmen loves her NB:

ahhhh, no. i'm a gizmodo fan and just wanted to share my experience. maybe i'm just lucky or maybe it just works on well on glass. that's all i'm sayin.'

mlembeck

Can you fill it up with body wash instead, and run it WHILE you're taking a shower? That sounds like loads of fun.

mikejonas

Why is it incumbent on the consumer, even if he/she is a blog writer or journalist, to contact the company who sells it? What is so biased about using the product just like any other consumer would: by buying it at WalMart and using it according to the directions?
Screw that shill. =P

Nakko

This thing sucks... it doesn't reach very far and the cleaning solution slowly drips out.

cmgaviao

dump the contents and fill it with something tastey--lite beer, spiked punch, red bull, invite a bunch of ladies over and huddle them around the new and improved dispenser--hello wet t-shirt contest!

Hobeaux

Yes - its the worst piece of shit I have ever purchased. :(

googlefrank26

@CSX321: Rain-X? That's an amazing idea. Definitely going to copy that one.

photophile

It works for me just fine. Then again, I live in a dry climate which doesn't promote mildew.

Perhaps B-Lam decorates his bathroom in post-fraternity house mildew or expects this gadget to cure many years of hygienically-challenged bathroom use.

Either way, that was quite the vitriolic rant for such an innocuous device. What's next on the firing line, B-Lam? Telling Steve Jobs he's too fat?

You're never happy, are you??? WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

BZATWORK

Seriously, who knew clean showers would be such a hot topic!

(For the record, I use the Method Daily Ylang Ylang Shower Spray.
No scrubbing, no soap scum or mildew, and it smells nice.)

92BuickLeSabre

Perhaps you can re-rig it with a lighter, and fill it with lighter fluid to make an automated flamethrower turret?

witnessx

Oh wow! I bought this ages ago and almost immediately stopped using it. What a complete waste of my (at the time) $20+. Even after refilling the cleaning bottle myself with a better combination of cleansers, it still sucked bawlz.

karmaghost

Remind me never to email Liam with a strong dissenting opinion about a negative product review.
He might give my email address out to the masses for spamming just because he doesn't like my thoughts.

Don't get me wrong - I'm sure this Scrubbing Bubbles thing sucked and completely didn't work, but I think it's a bit bad form to react like that to some guy, no matter how fishy and ad-rep-like it sounds.

Blah8

100% agreed -- it simply does not work. I have been using it in vain for about four months.

absconded

"Area man blinded after corrosive AutoShower gadget lands Face-Shot;
Seeks $255M in damages, lawsuit reveals; "

C'mon guys...

The cleanser MUST be watered down to protect users from themselves. If this thing were filled with TileX grade cleanser (the stuff that's powerful enough to melt through calcium deposits), can you imagine what it would do to your eyes?! Pudding anyone?

A half-dozen users in this thread would have already sustained moderate-to-severe chemical burns to their corneas.

diggabyte

I have it and it works fine. I also have a Roomba, and it too works fine. But neither are a replacement for my Humanoid Robotic Slave that actually does animatronic physical labor. So I do have to do touchup since my HRS is in the shop, but it's just that.

It is not with out humor, the SBASC has a warning that it is not body wash. It will probably dissolve you like the bugs in Starship Troopers.

djtripp

Threw mine away after about 2 months. Had to use C*L*R to clean all the water stains out of the shower.

ericrwalker

@Agent007: There's lots of reasonable feedback here saying they work. I'm going to put an update up top saying that some like it.

Brian Lam

@Blah8: Guy was abusive in his email. Turnaround is fair play. My email is public, so is his now. I attacked a bad product to keep people from wasting money on it, he attacked me.

Brian Lam

@BZATWORK: Talk about vitrolic. Bye.

Brian Lam

google search for shill's email retrieves this:
[groups.google.com]

And I quote "Josh-majikfox": "I've been getting messages for a couple of years about a Google group
I created years ago ( fur.nwbabyfurs )..."

Yeeeeesh.

Adam Rock

It works terrible for me when my roommate and I tried it out (we just finished our second bottle now). I think it's worked only as far as keeping the shower from getting dirtier than it was before we got the device, but not actually doing anything to clean any of the crud that was on there before. I think the only way to really get rid of that stuff is a good old scrubbing.

I might still consider getting/using it if/when I get my bathroom back into spic and span quality, but otherwise it's not recommended.

Arvin Bautista

I used to own this thing when it was the single-nozzle variant and it was total, utter garbage.

It's impossible to tell what was worse: how fast it ran out of cleaning solution, how fast it killed the batteries, or how poorly it cleaned anything.

Now that there is a two-nozzle variant, my assumption is that it's twice as bad in every way.

If you enjoy purchasing ridiculous quantities of ineffective cleaning solution that, in all honesty, leaves a dirt-magnet residue on your shower, this is the product for you.

Gilbert

A review of a product, any product, is biased in some regard. When reviewing a product, does Mossberg contact the manufacturer to find out why it doesn't work how he thinks it should? NO!
A review is simply the experience the critic had with the product. As with any product YMMV. Every hated product has its advocates.
I'd really like to know though how there can be that many lazy people out there who need a product like this. Is it really that difficult to clean your shower? Do you really think spraying it will keep it clean? It might work better if the shower was actually running and washing the stuff but that isn't happening.
Ah well nice review I think.

GhoS

Hey - not everything can be as innovative and useful as a Mr. Clean® Magic Eraser®!

dezeinstein

Oh.. wait you did hand it out.

MayorWest

I f**king hate mine. Worst $30 I ever spent and I've bought some dumb sh*t in my life.

Can we have the email address for the rep so we can flood it with porn junk mail?

MayorWest

@djtripp: I have a "Humanoid Robotic Slave" too, but she prefers the title of "wife".

photophile

@LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M:
"You have to give them credit for that cute little scrubbing guy cute eyes on the box, that just say pweeze pweeze buy me.....he kinda reminds me of The Brave Little Toaster."

It's probably just as smart to take him into your shower, judging from that review.

ManekiNeko

This product really could suck, but come on, don't peddle Pruit's letter as "hate mail." It's an embarrassing exaggeration and a transparent attempt to draw in hits with manufactured controversy.

ManekiNeko

You know what does work? Jet dry dishwasher cleaner. Sure its just a little bottle of concentrated acid, but it beats the hell out of the scrubbing and scraping alternative.

John Laur