This is a used item that has been professionally restored to working order by a manufacturer or manufacturer-approved vendor. This means the product may show signs of use, but has been inspected and repaired to meet manufacturer specifications and is in the original working condition. All attachments including brushes and filters are brand new.
Product Dimension: 11.8" (L) x 11.8" (W) x 3.15" (H)
Product Weight: 4.85lbs
Power: 22W
Battery Type: Li-ion
Dustbin Capacity: 0.3 L
Charging Type: Auto Charging/Manual Charging
V3s Pro automatically searches for the charging dock and returns home when the battery gets low
Cleaning Mode: Auto, Spot, Edge, Daily Schedule
Preset a working time to get your V3s Pro to start its daily routine cleaning
Auto clean by pressing the mechanical button on the robot or choose from 3 cleaning modes with the remote
Charging Time: <300 minutes
Cleaning Time: Approx. 90 minutes
Low-profile design can reach under the sofa or bed where dirt hides
With powerful suction passage, V3s Pro does an impressive job of picking up dirt, small particles, pet hair, and fur without tangling caused by hairs blocking into the roller
3 built-in underneath infrared sensors intelligently detect stairs to avoid falling off, making sure V3s Pro is in a safe cleaning condition
10 sets of front infrared sensors recognize and avoid obstacles
With extra-large RoadRover wheels, V3s Pro can glide across from hard floor to low-pile carpet or ride over door trims to clean with ease
@IndifferentDude@yakkoTDI Just checking in to see how long it took for someone to say “This sucks”.
(About as fast as the first IRK in a Mehrathon’s VMP hour by my reckoning.)
@IndifferentDude lmao - did a quick search. There’s still 40 of them left in the US & territories, CA - 6, FL- 5 and NY -6, the rest scattered in five or six other states and territories. Great excuse to go to St. Thomas: they are having a great blue light special!
@IndifferentDude I remember reading a while ago that the most profitable Kmart (and likely the last one to survive) was in the Hamptons and they had a monopoly on that stretch of road as the only store.
@mehgrl
Not sure what to compare it to but it does make noise. Not as bad as the regular vacuum but it is definitely not silent. That being said, I could easily hear the music on my wireless speakers in the kitchen while it was going.
“I use it for a small apartment and I have to say that the battery life is great but there are so many shitty things about it that I say run from it.”
“Our vacuum committed suicide: I wish that I could say that everything was going fine until Rosie, our vacuuming unit, hurled herself down the stairs, but I feel I must be truthful. In reality, Rosie missed large swaths of the rooms she had been assigned to, as well as seeming to obsess over areas she had cleaned several times already.”
“I had a Dee bot and loved it for 2 years until it kind of crapped out. Then we got this monstrosity. it had such good reviews and I had such high hopes for this stupid ass thing. Sometimes it cleans one spot over and over again like a meth monster whose high is a kite. Sometimes just looking at it makes me angry.”
“It’s high maintenance and I can’t imagine how many hours it’s going to take to do what I could do in 10 minutes. I think I’m going to have to declare this thing stupid.”
“Sucks as much as a little vacuum should suck… But it got tired of sucking and pretty much sucks.”
@owenversteeg I’ve got a v5s and it’s eh but the price here is good enough that if you just want one that will do a bit of vacuuming from time to time, I’d recommend it
Pet hair? I have TONS of pet hair! Most every day a BIN of pet hair!
Can’t afford this right now, but if it showed up in an Irk, it wouldn’t break my heart.
I have an iLife 4s *we call it “Little Horseshoe” as it looks like a horseshoe crab) and I absolutely love it.
It’s a dumb vacuum, as it runs into things to turn around. No mapping, but the battery is great, the customer service is good, and it does the job quite well for much less than a Roomba.
I actually have this - purchased from Amazon, and I think it does an amazing job. I also have a Roomba and I think the Ilife does a better job, picks up a ton of cat hair.
@aquastardreamer I can only speak on the 4s, but you want to clear all of that stuff.
It will get tangled up.
It was a pain when I first got it, but totally worth the job it does.
I have a long-haired cat and this thing is a must.
@aquastardreamer (I’m biased, this is my product) So I have been testing the V5S, the only difference is the mopping feature. I’ve used it in my bedroom, letting it go under the bed into the abyss of dust bunnies, dog toys and lost batteries. It actually worked it’s way around most of it and didn’t get stuck under the bed (which is frankly, shocking). But in my kitchen, I have some tarps tapping up some damage to my lower cabinets we’re getting fixed and it did get bunched up and stuck on those tarps. That was pretty much the only thing it got stuck on. That being said, my dog toys might be bigger than cat toys and I did get up the majority of items, just not the stuff under the bed. Overall, I was impressed for the price (I tested a refurb as well).
@TexterTusher we tested it on the stairs and it didn’t fall off, the sensor caught it before it plummeted to it’s death. Again, I’m biased, this is my product.
Okay I’m in. This is a birthday gift for my Mother who has Amazon Echo everything but oddly doesn’t have an Roomba yet. I think she is afraid it will scare the cats. For this price it’s worth finding out.
OMG
Mine arrived YESTERDAY! Yes, yesterday, as in 3 days after the sale closed!! I found it on my porch when I went out early this AM to see how much rain had fallen. After being puzzled by the fact I had received a package when none were due, my next thought was someone at Pitney Bowles methed up.
Then I noticed it came FedEx. (And a full week before the estimated arrival window start date…)
Some thoughts:
Item looks brand new.
Came well packaged
Read the quick start guide, turned it on, and set it on the charger. It was ready in a couple of hours.
Ran it after lunch to check it out. My kitchen/dining room is one step up from the living room and about 30’x24’ of tile flooring. On that space is a wooden trestle table, 6 chairs, 3 bar stools, and a 4’x3’ island. SWMBO has been out of town this week, and I have been doing a bunch of canning and work in the kitchen, and since the backyard is accessed off the french doors in the dining room and it’s been rainy, I had managed to track in a bit of loose grass clippings and sand etc. that stayed stuck to my shoes/feet even after trying to wipe them off on the exterior rug.
Overall this thing did an excellent job. It picked up all the little detritus left around the 2 rooms, didn’t get totally stuck under the chairs or bar stools, and even got back to the dock on it’s own from the opposite side of the dining room table.
It isn’t silent by any stretch, but not unacceptably noisy either. I can still listen to Pandora on the wireless speakers placed in a couple of spots in the 2 rooms.
It is not a ‘smart’ robot. It does not map and remember your layout. It is basically a “bump-n-go” setup, but it does have some IR sensors evidently (as mentioned in the sale specs), as it would often slow down as it approached a wall without actually bumping into it.
Cliff/stair sensors worked efficiently and it never dove off the step into the living room space.
Overall, a good product so far.
It’s back on the charger (about 2/3 charged in a couple of hours) and will be unleashed in the bedroom when it is ready to go. There it will have access to my master bath as well and will have to go over a wooden transition from the pergo style flooring to tile. There is also a very thin rug we bought in Turkey years ago that it will have to climb on and off of several times I’m sure. It will also have to navigate the legs on the vanity since it is up off the ground. I’ll re-post how that adventure goes later. But for now,
a hearty
to @mandirose for picking an excellent meh product!
.
TL:DR $80 well invested
@chienfou I try to set achievable expectations when I chime in about a product I’m the buyer of but I’ll be honest that we were really impressed with this item (even the packaging was impressive for a refurbished item, as you mentioned) We’re so glad to hear you like it so far as much as we did! Thanks for the shout out, you made my day!
@jquebby I’m really sorry to hear that your instructions booklet was missing. Please click here for an electronic copy. If you would like a hard copy, please write in to our customer service team and I’ll get with the vendor and see what we can do!
@jquebby
That window has closed… for now. Keep an eye out for future repeats of this product sale if they didn’t sell out, as well as being in the odd mehrathon if they only have a few left.
Or, for only $20 more you can visit the sister site and get it there.
Use boiling water or steam to re-set a kinked brush.
I think the remote needs line of sight to start the robot on a schedule, instead of “programming” it in.
I might jerry-rigging my old broken stand vacuum into a suction base kind of thing like the new high-end roombas are getting.
How do I say I love thee? Let me find the ways. I love thee as ye scoots around the floor. I love thee as ye turns and pivots around the dog and stationary objects. I love thee as ye reports back to yon charging base. I love thee with your top cover resembling a smiley face.
Specs
This is a used item that has been professionally restored to working order by a manufacturer or manufacturer-approved vendor. This means the product may show signs of use, but has been inspected and repaired to meet manufacturer specifications and is in the original working condition. All attachments including brushes and filters are brand new.
What’s Included?
Price Comparison
$156.16 at Kmart
Warranty
90 Day iLife Warranty
Estimated Delivery
Friday, Aug 6 - Tuesday, Aug 10
This deal sucks.
@yakkoTDI He said it.
@yakkoTDI It used to BLOW, that’s why they are refurbished!!
@IndifferentDude @yakkoTDI Just checking in to see how long it took for someone to say “This sucks”.
(About as fast as the first IRK in a Mehrathon’s VMP hour by my reckoning.)
@IndifferentDude @mehcuda67 That late night cup of coffee helps me brains works well.
/giphy coffee
Kmart???
@erthian I can only hope they mean Australian KMart
Where the hell is there still a Kmart?
@fuzzmanmatt New Jersey
https://www.kmart.com/stores/new-jersey.html
@DoctorOW @fuzzmanmatt And apparently Meh drove some business there because they are sold out on the price comparison link…
$156.16 at Kmart … What is a Kmart?? Do they still exist??
/image blue light special
@IndifferentDude lmao - did a quick search. There’s still 40 of them left in the US & territories, CA - 6, FL- 5 and NY -6, the rest scattered in five or six other states and territories. Great excuse to go to St. Thomas: they are having a great blue light special!
@Faffs @IndifferentDude And what did they do with all those blue lights? Meh, you missed an opportunity - I want one.
@Faffs @IndifferentDude In a current reddit post, apparently there are only 17 Kmart stores remaining that aren’t liquidating and/or closed.
It seems like it was 18 as of a week ago, but this happened:
@IndifferentDude @narfcake I only looked for Kmarts in USA, but yup, when I added in 2021, it brought it down to only 18 still open as of July 12
@IndifferentDude I remember reading a while ago that the most profitable Kmart (and likely the last one to survive) was in the Hamptons and they had a monopoly on that stretch of road as the only store.
@IndifferentDude
Heck, you can still buy stuff from Montgomery Ward. They are online only, and expensive as heck, but they’re still out there!
Out of all the websites it’s available at you guys link Kmart
Can anyone comment on the sound level when in use?
/giphy too loud
@mehgrl
Not sure what to compare it to but it does make noise. Not as bad as the regular vacuum but it is definitely not silent. That being said, I could easily hear the music on my wireless speakers in the kitchen while it was going.
Is Kmart still around?
Lol Kmart
The machines are spying on us. Do you really want a machine that knows what’s under your bed?
@hchavers I’m sure Google would pay good money to know that I’m harboring three lost socks and a family of illegal dust bunnies under my bed.
/giphy deal sucks
What puts me off of this is the Amazon reviews for its sibling, the ILIFE V5s Pro: https://www.amazon.com/ILIFE-Automatically-Sweeping-Scrubbing-Cleaning/dp/B06X1F3HXG
Some highlights:
“I use it for a small apartment and I have to say that the battery life is great but there are so many shitty things about it that I say run from it.”
“Our vacuum committed suicide: I wish that I could say that everything was going fine until Rosie, our vacuuming unit, hurled herself down the stairs, but I feel I must be truthful. In reality, Rosie missed large swaths of the rooms she had been assigned to, as well as seeming to obsess over areas she had cleaned several times already.”
“I had a Dee bot and loved it for 2 years until it kind of crapped out. Then we got this monstrosity. it had such good reviews and I had such high hopes for this stupid ass thing. Sometimes it cleans one spot over and over again like a meth monster whose high is a kite. Sometimes just looking at it makes me angry.”
“It’s high maintenance and I can’t imagine how many hours it’s going to take to do what I could do in 10 minutes. I think I’m going to have to declare this thing stupid.”
“Sucks as much as a little vacuum should suck… But it got tired of sucking and pretty much sucks.”
@owenversteeg Worth noting that toms guide actually called the V3s the better buy over the V5s https://www.tomsguide.com/us/ilife-v3s-pro-robot-vacuum,review-6464.html (again, I’m biased, this is my product)
@owenversteeg I’ve got a v5s and it’s eh but the price here is good enough that if you just want one that will do a bit of vacuuming from time to time, I’d recommend it
Pet hair? I have TONS of pet hair! Most every day a BIN of pet hair!
Can’t afford this right now, but if it showed up in an Irk, it wouldn’t break my heart.
/buy
what the hell, I’m in…
@chienfou It worked! Your order number is: awkward-official-mystic
/image awkward official mystic
/giphy abandoned-brutal-death
I have an iLife 4s *we call it “Little Horseshoe” as it looks like a horseshoe crab) and I absolutely love it.
It’s a dumb vacuum, as it runs into things to turn around. No mapping, but the battery is great, the customer service is good, and it does the job quite well for much less than a Roomba.
I actually have this - purchased from Amazon, and I think it does an amazing job. I also have a Roomba and I think the Ilife does a better job, picks up a ton of cat hair.
Can anyone comment on how it works when you have a lot of other (non trash) things on your floor? (Cat toys, lamp stands, wires, etc)
@aquastardreamer I can only speak on the 4s, but you want to clear all of that stuff.
It will get tangled up.
It was a pain when I first got it, but totally worth the job it does.
I have a long-haired cat and this thing is a must.
@deanled
Thanks!
@aquastardreamer (I’m biased, this is my product) So I have been testing the V5S, the only difference is the mopping feature. I’ve used it in my bedroom, letting it go under the bed into the abyss of dust bunnies, dog toys and lost batteries. It actually worked it’s way around most of it and didn’t get stuck under the bed (which is frankly, shocking). But in my kitchen, I have some tarps tapping up some damage to my lower cabinets we’re getting fixed and it did get bunched up and stuck on those tarps. That was pretty much the only thing it got stuck on. That being said, my dog toys might be bigger than cat toys and I did get up the majority of items, just not the stuff under the bed. Overall, I was impressed for the price (I tested a refurb as well).
@mandirose
Thanks!
@aquastardreamer Most welcome
/giphy prudish-kissable-rabbit
@gumbright I get abandoned-brutal-death for my order number and you get prudish-kissable-rabbit?
Hmm…
@gumbright @Trinityscrew Put them both together and you get
@ybmuG
It’s nothing but a bloomin’ bunny…
@chienfou He’ll do you up a treat, mate.
will it send itself tumbling down the open stairs and commit I life End life on the first day?
@TexterTusher we tested it on the stairs and it didn’t fall off, the sensor caught it before it plummeted to it’s death. Again, I’m biased, this is my product.
well my last iLife vac finally died last week after ~5 years so i guess i’ll get this replacement.
For this price, its worth a shot. Extra points for having an i-name.
/buy
@haydesigner It worked! Your order number is: melted-emotional-chin
/image melted emotional chin
Okay I’m in. This is a birthday gift for my Mother who has Amazon Echo everything but oddly doesn’t have an Roomba yet. I think she is afraid it will scare the cats. For this price it’s worth finding out.
/giphy flat-discouraged-eagle
My obstacle collection would drive it insane in one session.
OMG
Mine arrived YESTERDAY! Yes, yesterday, as in 3 days after the sale closed!! I found it on my porch when I went out early this AM to see how much rain had fallen. After being puzzled by the fact I had received a package when none were due, my next thought was someone at Pitney Bowles methed up.
Then I noticed it came FedEx. (And a full week before the estimated arrival window start date…)
Item looks brand new.
Came well packaged
Read the quick start guide, turned it on, and set it on the charger. It was ready in a couple of hours.
Ran it after lunch to check it out. My kitchen/dining room is one step up from the living room and about 30’x24’ of tile flooring. On that space is a wooden trestle table, 6 chairs, 3 bar stools, and a 4’x3’ island. SWMBO has been out of town this week, and I have been doing a bunch of canning and work in the kitchen, and since the backyard is accessed off the french doors in the dining room and it’s been rainy, I had managed to track in a bit of loose grass clippings and sand etc. that stayed stuck to my shoes/feet even after trying to wipe them off on the exterior rug.
Overall this thing did an excellent job. It picked up all the little detritus left around the 2 rooms, didn’t get totally stuck under the chairs or bar stools, and even got back to the dock on it’s own from the opposite side of the dining room table.
It isn’t silent by any stretch, but not unacceptably noisy either. I can still listen to Pandora on the wireless speakers placed in a couple of spots in the 2 rooms.
It is not a ‘smart’ robot. It does not map and remember your layout. It is basically a “bump-n-go” setup, but it does have some IR sensors evidently (as mentioned in the sale specs), as it would often slow down as it approached a wall without actually bumping into it.
Cliff/stair sensors worked efficiently and it never dove off the step into the living room space.
Overall, a good product so far.
It’s back on the charger (about 2/3 charged in a couple of hours) and will be unleashed in the bedroom when it is ready to go. There it will have access to my master bath as well and will have to go over a wooden transition from the pergo style flooring to tile. There is also a very thin rug we bought in Turkey years ago that it will have to climb on and off of several times I’m sure. It will also have to navigate the legs on the vanity since it is up off the ground. I’ll re-post how that adventure goes later. But for now,
a hearty
to @mandirose for picking an excellent meh product!
.
TL:DR $80 well invested
@chienfou I try to set achievable expectations when I chime in about a product I’m the buyer of but I’ll be honest that we were really impressed with this item (even the packaging was impressive for a refurbished item, as you mentioned) We’re so glad to hear you like it so far as much as we did! Thanks for the shout out, you made my day!
Mine arrived today WITHOUT ANY OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS!! How am I supposed to operate this thing???
@jquebby I’m really sorry to hear that your instructions booklet was missing. Please click here for an electronic copy. If you would like a hard copy, please write in to our customer service team and I’ll get with the vendor and see what we can do!
@jquebby https://www.iliferobot.store/u_file/photo/20191127/b32f77b0de.pdf - here are the quick start instructions as well
Electronic is fine. I will just download it and keep it on my phone. Thanks and if possible I would love to buy a 2nd one for my vacation home.
@jquebby
That window has closed… for now. Keep an eye out for future repeats of this product sale if they didn’t sell out, as well as being in the odd mehrathon if they only have a few left.
Or, for only $20 more you can visit the sister site and get it there.
@jquebby It’s available right now in the mehrathon.
My floors have never been cleaner.
Use boiling water or steam to re-set a kinked brush.
I think the remote needs line of sight to start the robot on a schedule, instead of “programming” it in.
I might jerry-rigging my old broken stand vacuum into a suction base kind of thing like the new high-end roombas are getting.
How do I say I love thee? Let me find the ways. I love thee as ye scoots around the floor. I love thee as ye turns and pivots around the dog and stationary objects. I love thee as ye reports back to yon charging base. I love thee with your top cover resembling a smiley face.
I would buy more of these if they were listed!
This thing is coming out of my bedroom after about a year.