Force Boot Dryer, Shoe Dryer, & Glove Dryer with Articulating Ports for Ski Boots

I love these so much. I bought two of them well worth the money.

use every day, amazing purchase for shoes or boots

I originally bought this for ski boots - but have ended up using it more for my children's sports cleats (and lax gloves!) We have 3 children who play soccer and lacrosse, and this is a lifesaver for getting cleats /footwear and lax equipment (gloves) dry after practices in rain. Highly recommend!!

As I write this, so far four stars, for the reasons listed below. Can't complain too much with this price point.I like that it's fairly compact, and that the arms you put the shoes on fold down for storage and also so you can get a good seat with a boot, so it works well for boots or shoes. I did a fairly good job of drying out my UGG boots, they were pretty wet around the toes from rain, and it definitely dried them better than when I let them dry naturally. I did have to restart it a second time, because they weren't dry when they were on for the max time allowed before it shut off on its own. It looks like a little robot that should be on a kids movie, definitely something you want to put out of sight, like in a laundry room. It is also pretty noisy. We have had other shoe dryers in the past, so far this one works well. And it didn't feel like it overheated my boots. I will post another review in a couple weeks after I have had a chance to use it more. We have a lot of rain in the forecast over the next week or two. Loving it so far! Wish it had a longer cord. I will post a video and some pictures on my follow up. Stay tuned… by the way purchased two, my husband uses one and I use one. So I will give you his take as well.

I've been using this almost daily on waterproof work boots. They get sweaty & this has been a great help to keep the stank down. It's slow but gentle heat. I imagine it'd need a couple cycles if shoes badly soaked but for typical use it's perfectly adequate with 1 spin of the dial.

I'm naturally skeptical when it comes to almost anything these days. It seems that almost nothing lives up to the claims made by manufactures that can be purchased for what almost always turns out to be more money than something is worth. We purchased this with the slim hopes that it would be able to at least reduce the amount of water/moisture in our teenage children's soccer cleats after weekend long tournaments in weather that should have caused the tournaments cancellation. Their cleats are sometimes so waterlogged that hours and sometimes days later were still dripping wet, even after filling them with newspaper, paper towels, other internet baseless-claims of what to fill the cleats with and leaving them outside in the sun in order to dry them out. Upon ordering this dryer, I weighted and placed a pair of older cleats and a pair of regular running shoes in buckets of water and let them soak for the two days until the dryer arrived. When the dryer did arrive, I set it up, plugged it in and took the pair of cleats out of the bucket and placed them on the dryer, then turned the dryer on setting the timer to the full three hour limit. After one hour, I wasn't surprised to find the cleats still very wet, but after two I was pleasantly surprised to find that the cleats had been significantly dried but were still damp. And after the full three hours, I was blown away by the fact that the cleats were 100% dry, free of any moisture and free of the normal old cleat smell. I then took the running shoes out of the bucket and immediately placed them on the dryer and repeated the three hour test. And to my astonishment, I had the same result. Absolutely dry and free of any nauseating smell shoes. This dryer goes with us every time we have to travel for our soccer tournaments. I even took it with me on a weekend ATV/UTV trip. And I was glad that I did. It rained all weekend long and my friends and I used it to dry our soaking boots out every night after riding all day in non-stop rain and lots of water fording. It easily handled drying out four pairs of motorcycle and hiking boots and pretty much ran all night long doing so. I have since purchased this dryer again in order to have two on hand in times of need and have had the exact same results. Very rarely am I this happy with any purchase I've made for anything. Especially something of this nature.

Summary: My unit is a fire hazard, clearly defective after six weeks of use, and I contacted the company over a week ago and have had no response from them. Dangerous, not recommended, particularly as they don't seem to be interested in honoring the one year warranty advertised here on Amazon. I am apparently out the purchase cost, as I'm outside the return window on Amazon. It also damaged brand new gloves that were more expensive than the unit. Avoid!Details: I received the unit and used it for the first time about a week later. It worked great at first. After a couple of weeks of light use -- basically drying one set of gloves each evening -- there was a slight bit of fan noise from one side of the unit, almost a bit of a clicking sound. I didn't think much of it.About two weeks later, I put my gloves on the unit on the heat setting in my hotel room, and left for about 40 minutes to get some food. I came back to the room and there was a very odd burning plastic smell. I turned off the unit right away. Later, I examined the situation and discovered that my gloves now had an odd burning plastic smell, and that one of the arms on the unit was clearly partially melted. That arm won't fold down anymore, either.(Images attached -- this arm originally was like the other one -- every seam was closed and tight, no gaps.)I unplugged the unit, verified that I was outside the return window on Amazon, and contacted the manufacturer. I received an autoresponse saying they got my email, that I shouldn't send more email, that they'd get to me in sequence. It's been over a week and I haven't heard anything from them.