Our Overall Score:
8.8/10
Thanks for stopping by to read our IROBOT Roomba 980 Robot Vacuum Cleaner review. Here we’ll take a look at a range of the key features, benefits, positives and negatives to help you decide if IROBOT Roomba 980 Robot Vacuum Cleaner is right for you, or if you should be looking for a different product in the Vacuum cleaners category.
Latest price search at Currys PC World: £599
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There are many factors that we consider when buying, and reviewing products like IROBOT Roomba 980 Robot Vacuum Cleaner. In this review we will take the 4 main considerations and look at how they stack up against the competition, be it other products from the same brand, Irobot or alternative products in the Vacuum cleaners category. The 4 factors that we’re going to explore now are, Quality, Price, Reviews and the overall score.
Quality of IROBOT Roomba 980 Robot Vacuum Cleaner
IROBOT Roomba 980 Robot Vacuum Cleaner scores 8.6/10 for quality in our review.
Quality is a very important factor when it comes to buying any product, but it’s particularly important with Vacuum cleaners. It’s never going to be easy to get a real feel for the quality of a product without being able to see or even test it.
This is why it’s so important to read lots of customer reviews, where you will be able to get an understanding from many of the customers of IROBOT Roomba 980 Robot Vacuum Cleaner, just how good it is, in terms of quality. Take your time to read through the reviews looking for specific comments about the quality. It’s worth spending time looking for reviews from customers that have owned the product for some time as that will give you a really good idea of the product’s durability.
Our best advice for checking out the quality is reading reviews, but also use some of these to help you get an idea of the quality:
- Price: The old saying “you get what you pay for” is a good indication as to how good quality you should expect from a product.
- Specification: Check out the specs for IROBOT Roomba 980 Robot Vacuum Cleaner and see how they compare to your expectations and other products.
- Brand: Some brands are known for delivering amazing quality products, it’s a case of trying to find the Rolex equivalent for Vacuum cleaners, but at a realistic and reasonable price.
- Previous experience: Have you ever owned any Vacuum cleaners? Think about your experience of the product and how good it was. What brand was it? How much was it? What was it made from? All of these can help you when considering your options.
Price analysis
IROBOT Roomba 980 Robot Vacuum Cleaner scores 8.1/10 for price in our review.
Price is normally the most important factor when considering a purchase. Especially when you’re shopping online, it’s really easy for us to shop around now so we can easily compare prices of the same product against many retailers with just a few clicks. In fact here at Review Pros we do that leg work for you, by comparing many different retailers to find you the best price. But price is also a big factor for which product we choose too, not just which retailer.
To give an example, the most expensive product that we found in the Vacuum cleaners category was £899, whilst the cheapest we found was £29.99 so there’s a significant variance in the prices that different products are available for. For this reason we always recommend that you set yourself a budget before you spend too much time shopping around for a product. It’s easy to get carried away and buying a much more expensive product than you really need, but setting a budget will help to avoid this.
As part of our price analysis we’re going to break the price of IROBOT Roomba 980 Robot Vacuum Cleaner down and compare it and analyse it in the following ways.
- Compare to other products in the same category
- Compare to other products from the same brand
- Compare to other products that fit both of the above (the same category and the same brand)
Prices of products in the Vacuum cleaners category
Here we’re going to look at the prices you can expect to pay for products from the Vacuum cleaners category. we’re opted to use Currys PC World for this comparison, as they offered the most competitive prices for IROBOT Roomba 980 Robot Vacuum Cleaner.
To start with, we look at the average price of a product in the Vacuum cleaners category. This was £231.68 from the 146 products we found in that category. So IROBOT Roomba 980 Robot Vacuum Cleaner actually comes in above average at £599.
We then looked at the most expensive product in the category, which was £899 and the least expensive, which was £29.99. In total we found that of the 146, 7 were more expensive and 138 were less expensive, some products may have then had exactly the same price as IROBOT Roomba 980 Robot Vacuum Cleaner.
Prices of products from Irobot
Next up, we wanted to look at products from the brand, Irobot. Again we looked at the average price you can expect to pay for a product from Irobot, which was £414.91 of the 12 products we found. So IROBOT Roomba 980 Robot Vacuum Cleaner price is above average for the brand.
The cheapest product we managed to find from Irobot was £179 with the most expensive coming in at £899.
Prices of products from Irobot and in the Vacuum cleaners category
Then finally on our price analysis we wanted to dig a little deeper by looking at products from Irobot that sit specifically within the Vacuum cleaners category.
For this we found that the average price was £414.91, making IROBOT Roomba 980 Robot Vacuum Cleaner at £599 actually above average price.
Then we looked at the highest priced item that falls under this criteria, the price of this was £899 with the lowest priced item being £179. In total there were 3 items that were more expensive and 8 that was less expensive.
Reviews of IROBOT Roomba 980 Robot Vacuum Cleaner
IROBOT Roomba 980 Robot Vacuum Cleaner scores 9.7/10 for customer reviews in our review.
Perhaps one of the most important steps in choosing a product that you’re going to be buying online, is reading reviews. The more reviews you can read the better. Take your time to look through a range of different reviews, both good and bad as these will really give you the best insight into how good IROBOT Roomba 980 Robot Vacuum Cleaner is.
Overall score
IROBOT Roomba 980 Robot Vacuum Cleaner scores 8.8/10 overall in our review.
This part of the review takes the various scores for quality, price and customer reviews and combines them in order to provide you with one simple score to help you determine how good the product is overall. This score can then easily be compared to other products and be used as a benchmark.
There are of course many alternative products from Irobot so feel free to take a look at some of the alternatives, but in the meantime check out the many reviews for IROBOT Roomba 980 Robot Vacuum Cleaner by clicking the View Reviews button at the bottom of your screen.
Additional information: IROBOT Roomba 980 Robot Vacuum Cleaner
- Brand: Irobot
- Model Number: 10168548
- Compatible with iOS & AndroidRun time: 2 hoursPower: 14.4 VSmart Navigation0.6 litre capacity
- EAN: 5060359281043
- Description: Top features: – Navigates multiple rooms with full suite of sensors to adapt to real-world clutter – Automatically recharges and continues the job for easy cleaning – Cleans all floor types for true diversity – Increases power automatically when on carpet or rugs Navigates multiple roomsThe iRobot Roomba 980 Robot Vacuum Cleaner features iAdapt 2.0 Navigation with Visual Localization which helps Roomba 980 seamlessly navigate an entire level of your home and keep track of its location. It uses a high-efficiency cleaning pattern to adapt to real-world clutter and furniture so it can move around multiple rooms, going from the kitchen to the living room without hassle.Use the iRobot HOME App to choose how your cleaner does it job – you can see what your robot’s been up to using the Clean Map.Automatically rechargesWith a run time of up to two hours, the iRobot Roomba 980 will also automatically recharge and resume the current cleaning task until the whole job is completed.Cleans all floor typesSuitable for all floor types, the iRobot Roomba 980 will adjust automatically for carpets, tile, hardwood and laminate floors as it travels through your home.Increases power automaticallySome floor types may require more power than others, so the Roomba 980 has the feature of automatically increasing the power with floors such as carpets and rugs and will get to the places dust and dirt hide.
- Product ID: 21297193703
