Customer Reviews for Keurig - Special Edition Single-Serve Brewer - Black
Customer Rating
2
Won't stay on
on April 14, 2010
Posted by: jmoffittmommy
from Salem, NY
We have wanted one of these coffee makers for some time. We finally bought one and love the convenience. We are disapointed however that it keepps shutting itself down. It doesn't draw the water in when it should and it shuts off. Also sometimes it doesn't brew the right size cup of coffee. I am bringing this brewer back to [...] in the morning. I hope they will replace it and the new one will work right.
The first wk I received this product it wouldn't pump water. I called and they told me to stick paper clip into both blades and run up as far as possible. Then run plain water through couple times. That worked. If you leave K-Cup in chamber its stops up the blades with coffee grounds. You need to run plain water through couple times to clean blades.
This is my first "single" cup maker and it was purchased for me. However, so far it's fairly impressive. It's rather loud while heating the water, but does so in only a few minutes. It's also loud while brewing, but again, it's speed makes up for that in that a cup is ready almost as fast as I would be able to pour one. My only real complaint is that the "three" cup sizes are nearly indistinguishable. They range from ~6 to ~8 to ~10 ounces on paper, but in reality they all end up looking pretty close. The real annoyance is the lack of a 12 ounce option for travel mugs.
My husband can't start his day without at least 8 cups. So, I use the regular coffee maker in the morning to save because K-cups are pretty stiff for our budget. So, our Keurig is our afternoon or early evening luxury or when we have company. (Coffee tastes a lot lot better & save me time and money from dumping unconsumed coffee later in the day.) We have the machine since last Christmas. Bought it with a gift card and we are happy with it so far. I am a little disheartened with all the bad reviews on durability. I just ordered 4 boxes of K-cups! Hopefully, with just minimal use, we will have it for a while because it is definitely a keeper! And maybe by then the company can figure out what causing the problem and then fix it.
I've had my Keurig about 2 years and I love it, use it every morning. Sorry to hear that others have had their Keurigs break on them quite quickly. I agree with another reviewer, it sounds like there was a bad batch of them made. I have been lucky I guess. I have had only a couple of times it didn't work properly for me and I thought it had broke but all I had to do was turn it off and unplug it for a minute and when I plugged it back in it worked fine. The only other time I had trouble with it, it turned out to be a problem with the K-cups. I guess it was a bad batch of ice tea k-cups, all other k-cups I had worked fine with it. My only complaints are that it is pretty loud. I am hoping some of the more expensive/newer models are quiter. When I have guests sleeping over, I feel bad turning it on in the morning because I'm afraid it is going to wake them up. Also, I agree with another reviewing about k-cup size, who uses 6 or even 8 oz cups? The 10 oz largest size is what you need to use to fill a regular coffe mug so that is the only size I use. I wish I had a larger size option so that it would fill my travel mug. Other than that, I love my Keurig and all the k-cup options. It is definitely the best birthday/christmas present I have ever gotten.
I have to say I LOVE my KEURIG. It's been really great having it while it was working. Our Special Edition broke and customer service took care of everything. We even upgraded to the Platinum. But we have been waiting on it for over two weeks and are going to have to wait another week. At least we hope its only 1 more week of wait time. Keurig has really worked with us by providing excellent customer service and free coffee which is great. I just wish we were told that it was on back order. I will stay a Keurig customer as long as they keep proving great customer service!!!!!
Green mountain coffee is now a victim of its own success. Great coffee but manufacturing problems with the brewers. We are on our FOURTH brewer after experiencing all the problems people have experienced in these reviews. I don't understand why the Company doesn't fix these problems. Guess they have sales goals and shutting down production would interfere with meeting next quarters sales targets. At some point, if people stop buying brewers, k-cups sales will fall off which will be detrimental to the Company's earnings. I LOVE the coffee but I used to LOVE toyota cars too!