Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

After a week of sweltering heat and my own living room air conditioner not being able to keep up enough to get the cold air to my bedroom, even with a fan helping to pull it from the living room to my bedroom, I decided to give one of these a try. I had seen commercials and wondered just how good they could be. I held off buying because I was afraid of being disappointed and throwing away money I really don't have to spend. But after melting in bed for a few nights and waking up drenched in sweat, I thought, "Why not, what can it hurt? Even a little relief is better than none, right?" They advertise these like they are mini-A/C units but they aren't. They are a glorified fan. They require ice, ice water and soaking then freezing the filter unit as their means of producing "arctic" air. As you probably know, anything frozen eventually melts. The frozen filter will melt and become a wet filter. The ice will melt. And the cold water will become room temp water. Of course, the freezing and use of ice is only a suggestion for that "extra burst of arctic blast". But I wanted to see just how cold this baby would get, so I wet & froze the filter, used bottled ice water and put ice in the tank for maximum effect. The air blowing from this thing was no cooler than the air pulled in from my hallway by my box fan AND it was 3 times louder on its HIGH setting than my box fan is on the HIGH setting. It is drowning out my box fan as I type this. I mean I wasn't expecting it to be great or leave my room with icicles hanging off the ceiling but I expected to notice SOME type of improvement in the room temperature from this as opposed to the current room temp or the air temp coming through my box fan. There was zero difference. And to add insult to injury, the unit gets condensation on the outside of the box from using ice and super cold water, so it leaves a runny, dripping mess behind. I tried to go in with little to no expectations except that it improves the temp of my bedroom a couple degrees so I don't sweat as much when I sleep and I was STILL disappointed. It's been running a few hours now and the room temp is no better for it. Merriam-Webster defines "Arctic" as follows: 2a : bitter cold : frigid arctic air b : cold in temper or mood an arctic smile I think they missed the mark by a lot. It is going back tomorrow.