I just bought it today at the Layton, Utah club (big plus it was $25 off with Instant Savings ending tomorrow) and had to try it out. I emptied a bag of frozen peas and carrots into a vacuum bag, pressed the vac/seal button, and away it went. Perfect, firm vacuum, airtight seal. Next was a frozen steak that I knew I had wrapped to loosely, and I was afraid of freezer burn. Another perfect seal. The I tried out the zip bags--I didn't have any food items, so chose some hot-glue sticks. Plugged in the hose to the unit, then into the little green (unexplained) gasket thingy, placed it firmly over the bag's port, and it vacuumed perfectly. BTW, the bags are reusable too, even the ones you make from the rolls. I did another test as well. I had an open bag of potato chips, so I trimmed the open edge with scissors, then placed it into the unit, and pressed "seal". When the indcator told me it was done, I pulled the bag out, and sure enough, a perfect seal was born. I think I'm going to love this FoodSaver. Only four stars because I've only done the test-drive.

This is our 4th FoodSaver in 8 years. The idea is great. The units have gotten progressively poorer in quality. This unit is very poorly made right out of the box. I had a feeling I would have problems right from the start and I did. The hose for accessory vacuuming is almost impossible to get in and out and broke after a few uses. Customer service is horrible. I tried to do Sam's a favor and use FoodSaver's online customer service. There is an excessive amount of questions on the form to file for a warranty claim. After getting deeply into it, i gave up and used the horrible chat bot to get to a customer service email. This took 2 attempts over 2 days to get a reply. My unit was 2 months old. No apology was made for my difficulties. Hoops again were made to be jumped through and the worst part is they said they would do me this "favor" of sending me a new hose instead of apologizing for my difficulty on what is clearly a known problem. There are approximately 30% reviews at or below 3 stars. Read them. Unfortunately, my intention of helping Sam's out by going through FoodSaver was time consuming and extremely poor. If I were doing it again, I would just bring it back.

It does a great job of all, but even packs juicy meat well, I really like the automatic feature

Nice product and accessories. This tool makes food storage quick and easy.

Ease of use is incredible

I use it to vacuum pack meat for storage. works great every time. highly recommend.

this is a replacement for one i have had for 10 years and it is a good product.

Didn't take all of the air out.

Works great ! It's a little large but worth the money

A great machine that works good.