Remanufactured iRobot Roomba Vacuum Cleaning Robot with Scheduler, Case/Color May Vary

by Roomba

Product Features

• Case and color may vary based on manufacturer's choosing. All units (including units with Discovery cases) include Scheduler technology.
• Robotic, battery-powered floor vacuum and remote scheduling device
• Remote scheduler sets and changes vacuuming times and zones
• On-board artificial intelligence navigate between walls and furniture legs and self-adjusts for carpet, tile, and wood floors.
• Remanufactured to "like-new" condition; may contain minor cosmetic blemishes. 90 day manufacturer's warranty.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 11 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B000FOCHI4
• Item model number: 4296
• Batteries: 4 AA batteries required.
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (249 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #173,267 in Home & Kitchen (See Top 100 in Home & Kitchen)

Product Description

The iRobot Roomba Vacuum Cleaning Robot with Scheduler is remanufactured by iRobot to "like new" condition (may contain minor cosmetic blemishes) and comes with 90 day limited manufacturer's warranty. Please note: Roomba's case and color may vary based on manufacturer's choosing. This will not effect the operation of your Roomba; all remanufactured Roombas (including units with Discovery cases) have Scheduler technology installed.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

132 of 133 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for pet owners with wood or tile floors and throw rugs, September 1, 2006

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Lisa Chu "twin_mommy_in_CA" (CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Remanufactured iRobot Roomba Vacuum Cleaning Robot with Scheduler, Case/Color May Vary (Kitchen)

I love love love our Roomba!!!!

Roomba is perfect for our situation. We own 3 cats -- indoor/outdoor -- and before Roomba, we'd have to vacuum every day to pick up all the cat hair and dirt they drop or track in. We have all hardwood floors with a few throw rugs (some are taped down, some aren't, Roomba cleans them all no problem). Roomba handles floor-level changes like they aren't even there, cleans under the couch and tables and chairs, and so far has completely cleaned our floors without once scratching or marking our brand-new furniture. In the far corners there may be a few grains of dirt she couldn't reach, but overall we are ecstatically happy, and our hardwood gleams.

We schedule Roomba to run around every day we're at work. Every day we come home, and Roomba is back on her charger and full of cat hair. It's awesome.

Once Roomba got stuck under a couch, or so we thought, but it turned out she wasn't stuck at all -- just automatically shut down because she was so packed with cat hair, she couldn't even make it back to the charger. There was a lot of cat hair under the couch. :) Now I watch when she goes under the couch, and she never gets stuck, so I am 99% sure it was the cat hair (1st time cleaning).

If we had bought an IntelliBin, Roomba would tell us when the chamber needs cleaning. But we opted for the Scheduler ($199 refurbished), and just clean the bin once every time Roomba cleans. Cleaning the bin is done in one simple motion and is MUCH easier than big vacuum chambers.

On the pet side, our cats didn't freak out as much as we thought they would, in fact 2 out of 3 just ignore it, unless it comes straight at them. The third one just sits and stares at it with the evil eye whenever it's on.

This is the best purchase we have ever made. Picks up all the cat hair our three cats leave everywhere! That's all we wanted!

65 of 67 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good intelligent robotic sweeper but not perfect, July 27, 2006

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Benja S. Sariwatta (Lewis Center, OH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Remanufactured iRobot Roomba Vacuum Cleaning Robot with Scheduler, Case/Color May Vary (Kitchen)

I just got my roomba 4230 package from Amazon. The Roomba 4230 works great cleaning my house and is intelligent enough to navigate around an obstacle course I call a home. It picks up alot of dirt and debris. I definitely recommend it.

I only have a few gripes about it:

-The debris bin is not big enough so it has to be emptied often, maybe once per day.

-It does not pickup bigger pieces of debris like a quarter size piece of paper.

-It will get tangled up on adapter cords if it runs across them

-It has trouble finding its recharging base when sweeping is complete.

I'm waiting for my iRobot Scooba to arrive and see if can really mop my floors. This is cheaper than the $25 dollars per hour the maid services are charging.

72 of 75 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Lemon, August 24, 2006

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Mort Guffman (Florida) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Remanufactured iRobot Roomba Vacuum Cleaning Robot with Scheduler, Case/Color May Vary (Kitchen)

I bought a Roomba 4230 "remanufactured" vacuum robot from Amazon last week. I was really excited to get it. Plugged it in, charged her up, and pushed the Clean button. Dang.

It said Uh-Oh. E-mailed IRobot tech support. That was over a week ago. Still waiting for their response. I called tech support last Friday. They told me the same thing that I read on their website. The cliff sensors think they are obstructed. Roomba uses cliff sensors to keep it from falling down the stairs. Tech support suggested spraying compressed air into the sensors, and sent me RMA forms, knowing the air thing would never work.

Surprisingly, the compressed air worked. Roomba worked for 5 minutes. It was a beautiful thing. But then it quit and said Uh-Oh. More air. It ran a while longer. More air, it ran even longer. Emptied the dirt out several times. It ran out of juice, found its home base and parked on it for a refill. Amazing and wonderful and cute. It did a decent job cleaning too.

After it recharged I put it in my bedroom and pushed the button. It ran about 10 minutes and died. No amount of compressed air would revive it. Rather than pay to ship this lemon back to IRobot, I sent it back to Amazon postage paid. I miss it already, even though it never ran more than 10 minutes without needing some kind of attention.

After reading a bunch of postings in the Roomba forums I learned that it's not unusual to go thru 3 or 4 of these units before getting a good one.

My suggestion: Don't buy a remanufactured Roomba. Your chances of getting a lemon are much higher than with a new unit.