I bought this blender in Best Buy for about $29 or so as a replacement to my Osterizer which was about 8 yrs old. My osterizer is not broken and I just bought this because of the good price and also I wanted something to match my other appliances in kitchen. I thought, I can forget buying a blender for atleast 5 years. Oh god, may be the quality of blenders is going down or something, this one stopped working with a burning smell in less than 6 months. I don't recommend this one to anyone who is expecting durability out of this product.