After purchasing this coffeemaker for Christmas I was very pleased...at first. After spilling coffee all over the place on the first pour I learned that you had to either pour REALLY fast or hold the top shut with your free hand. Annoying, but it did make a good tasting cup of coffee. After a couple of weeks water started leaking out of the reservoir. A few weeks later the red light started blinking constantly. Within two weeks after that it was completely dead. For the price this coffee maker is a complete rip-off. It really is as cheap as it looks. For me it was not even worth it to have it repaired. The people at Delonghi should be ashamed of themselves for putting out such an inferior product. I have their Retro toaster and I love it, but this coffee maker is pure junk.