We are great coffee lovers and purchased this coffee maker in Sept, 2001. It made great coffee and was fun to watch. It is a coffee hog, but worth it for the flavor. We began to have trouble (May 2002) with it not completely depositing the coffee back into the bottom chamber. After some research we determined that it might need a filter change. We purchased and installed a replacement filter, that did not solve the problem. We found that if we only lightly placed the top chamber onto the pot that we would have an 80% chance of success.Yesterday, I loaded the pot up to brew our morning coffee and the unit did not work at all! The operating light is on, but no operation happening. I am now shopping for a new coffee maker - it will not be the same one - altho it was nice while it lasted.Another note - the equipment became unattractively stained from the coffee.