Cordless Swivel Sweeper - Original As Seen on TV by Swivel Sweeper
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Cordless Swivel Sweeper - Original As Seen on TV by Swivel Sweeper
Customer Review: A Waste of $30!
Summary: 1 Stars
I can't believe I wasted $30 of my hard-earned money on this thing! Not only does it not pick up much of anything, but the batteries only lasted a few days. And now I find out that I can't replace them with regular batteries. I have to buy a battery pack for $20 more! I'm throwing this trash in the trash!Customer Review: A great little vacume -When it works
Summary: 3 Stars
I have owned my Swivel sweeper for 2 years now. When it works it is amazing. I love how light it is - my 18 month old could push it around. It is able to go under almost every piece of furnature without haveing to move it and it gets into courners beautifully. It's easy to empty and easy to clean.
Here's the rub, the directions explicitly say not to charge the battery over 8 hours, but if you're like me you naturally charge everything else (phones PDAs camera batteries ect) overnight so you have a freash chage in the morning. If you leave the battery on the charger too long it KILLS the batery. I was very careful witht eh first battery and it only lasted me 1 year. My second battery is barely holding on to life - it will work for maybe 20 seconds before dying. At $10 a pop I cannot afford to keep buying batteries, and as a busy mom I cannot keep track of a high maintance battery that needs to be coddled and taken off the charger after an hour.
Customer Review: After One Year
Summary: 4 Stars
After owning and using the Swivel Sweeper for just over 12 months, it is still running, albeit a bit noiser,
and the battery life with proper charging is still good. Early on, I did have problems with the tabs to release the cover, but a little careful use of sandpaper cured this problem, immediately.
Please, do NOT expect this to be a vacuum. It does a reputable job of sweeping up most things, even sloppy dropped food around the table. As it has aged, it is however, more challenged with fine hair or lint, and likes to spit it out, likely due to wear. I should note, I have no pets, but use this sweeper at least TWICE per day.
I have not had occasion to contact the company, so I cannot speak to negative feedback on that topic. Compared to the Shark and its competitors, and the Bissell Cordless, I believe that despite its kind of cheap construction, it is a better product at actually sweeping than those units, and in many areas, can be purchased cheaper.
Battery maintenance is critical, and it is imperative that it be run down to a virtual stop, before recharging.
Again, no problems here, either, with a solid 6 hour recharge.
I paid $35.00 at Target for mine, and provided your expectations are moderate, this thing is pretty amazing for what it is. I suggest trying one out from a place like Target, saving your box and receipt. Stores like them
have a no questions asked return policy. Not much to lose to try it, other than a little time, and GASOLINE.
GASOLINE PRICES are another subject.
Customer Review: An Indispensible Product
Summary: 5 Stars
I have found the swivel sweeper to be an absolutely indispensible tool. I don't use a standard vacuum or broom and dust pan any longer. The Swivel Sweeper does everything that I need: cleaning hardwood and tile floors (it doesn't work on carpets unless there is no nap). There is nothing like it for cleaning up cat litter that gets out of the cat box. I used to use a mini vac for this purpose, but Swivel Sweeper cleans effortlessly.
The 360-degree rotating head gets virtually anywhere. The handle can be 90 degrees vertical to 0 degrees horizontal (e.g., for getting under beds effortlessly). The sweeper gets right up to walls and even in corners. It gets behind toilets and all the other places that a regular vacuum would be too big for. The Swivel Sweeper is light and effortless.
Putting the Swivel Sweeper together out of the box is simplicity itself. Snap a few parts into place and voila! It takes about 60 seconds. The rechargeable battery lasts almost an hour and recharges fully in about 8 hours with the supplied charger (not rechargeable batteries to buy). You don't have to worry about finding outlets to plug into and dragging that inconvenient vacuum AC cord everywhere you go.
The Swivel Sweeper comes with a little tool that you can use to pick threads and such like out of the brushes if you need to. In normal use, if you avoid carpets, you shouldn't even have to do this. I would recommend avoiding using the Swivel Sweeper on wet debris (like wet cat litter). This can get on the brushes and cake things up. As long as you keep to dry clean-up, you shouldn't have any problem at all.
I can't recommend this product highly enough. There is just nothing like it for easily and quickly cleaning up on any surface except carpets. It easily cleans in places that no vacuum would ever get to.
UPDATE. I have found that the manufacturing of these swivel sweepers is unreliable. I had one Swivel Sweeper, which worked fine for a couple of years. Then the motor started cutting in and out. I ordered another, and it suffered the same problem after two months. Unfortunately, AsSeenOnTVGuys does not replace defective products after 15 days, so if you get a defective one, you will not be able to get a free replacement.
UPDATE. I have purchased three of these swivel sweepers now. The rechargeable battery seems to be a weak point. I have had them lose power anywhere from a month to a year, after which the recharge works only for a couple of minutes.
Customer Review: Another Dead Battery
Summary: 1 Stars
I can only add my bad experience to all of the other negative reviews here. Our battery died and the three other people that bought the swivel sweeper after seeing ours have all had their sweepers die as well. Buy this sweeper only if you like frustration with low quality junk!