audramama wrote:[quote user="mohoelx"]Well, I hope I'm "special" in this case. Mine arrived this morning. Took it out, and following the instructions to prime and clean, mine seems to be a 'lemon'. Currently in the "unplug and wait 20 minutes" phase since all lights were blinking, and so far, the pump has not pulled any water to the brewing cup. Will wait the full 20 minutes and try again, but then probably calling "customer service"....hope they are "service" oriented!

Well, this happened to me, and as far as I can tell the company is out of business. All I got was a 15 minute plea to join some pyramid scheme. And their website is not working for me. I am just going to buy pods for it elsewhere. Thanks for the info on how you got yours working, worked for me too. It only brews 4 oz at a time, of crappy nasty tasting coffee.

My guess is that these are good starter pod coffee makers, but basically junk.

Same problem with mine. If you or anyone figures out what I'm/we're doing wrong, please reply.

What I'm doing: Plugged it in, filled the reservoir up with water, turned on the machine, wait until the power button stops blinking, turned the switch from OFF to BREW, I her the machine buzzing, stops buzzing, buzzing again, and then the power light blinks (to supposedly let you know it's done per the instruction booklet)...all the time, nothing comes out.

Bah. I got this to use in my cubicle, but it's too damn noisy. >:-(

My first Woot! Got mine yesterday. YES it's noisy! Forcing hot water through the pod takes a good amount of pressure, I guess. But thankfully it's fast.

My experience, between myself and my daughter using it over the last 2 days: LOVE IT! Worked perfectly out of the box. I am no coffee expert, and I don't like strong coffee taste, but it tasted great to me. I tried the cocoa dream and the dark sienna. I drank it hot, and I made iced coffee. I always use lots of sugar and milk. The steamer foamed up my coffee just great. I've been getting McDonald's vanilla iced coffee many mornings for work, and I think I'll try this for my morning iced coffee instead.

If it keeps working like this, I'll definitely have my money's worth with just the supplied coffee. And there are plenty of places to get more pods.

cellermeier wrote:Mine just arrived I got 4 Dark Sienna

Mine had 2 Siennas, 1 Cocoa Dream, 2 Fruitful teas. No espresso. So 90 pods altogether.

I purchased one of these a few months back and had absolutely no problems with it, I just wanted to try the other flavors of coffee so I purchased 3 (three) of these on the woot off. I got them perfect condition but I am really upset over the fact that I got 12 boxes of the same coffee, the dark roast. I will email the customer support and see if I can get some other types.

cellermeier wrote:Mine just arrived I got 4 Dark Sienna

Mine too.

Mine just arrived
got serenity roast, french muse, mojo rising, and fusion. It's REALLY noisy, I thought something was wrong with mine until I came on here and saw that they are all apparently noisy. Worth it for the money though, there was a sticker on the box that said MSRP 199.99??????????? What a deal, plus all the pods should last for a little while.

This confused me too....... the other two are packed IN the Styrofoam that held the coffee maker

Mine came with two packs of English Breakfast tea and two packs of Dark Sienna coffee. I found that placing it on the floor while it brews makes it slightly less noisy than keeping it on the desk. I guess I can put up with 30-60 seconds of noise per day for coffee/tea, at least until the included pods run out. I'll have to seek a good cheap source of pods if I end up enjoying it.

This thing is AWESOME!!! Retail on it is $199.00 WITHOUT the coffee pods. It works great and feels like a quality product. Just my size. I love it and so does my wife! Totally got me woot wild now! YEAH!!!! Sorry Mormons... this thing is GRRRRRREAT!!! Decaf tastes good too actually ;-)

Mine came today! Wahoo!! I bought it to bring to work but I think I'm going to keep it at home...should have bought two! I am a little sad that I got 4 Dark Siennas. But so far (well, I haven't had any coffee yet) I am very happy!

I got the two I ordered today - 4 boxes of Dark Sienna in each

the last time I ordered one - for a gift - and it had quite an assortment....

Mine came with four different types of coffee - was hoping for some tea, oh well. I've discovered that Celestial Seasonings teabags work pretty well, despite being square shaped. Lipton's tea pods fit too.

Senseo cappuccino pods are too big though, that was disappointing. Can anyone recommend a cappuccino brand that's sized right?

Mine arrived after only a few days, too! AND, it WORKED on the FIRST TRY! Too bad the coffe tastes like it was filtered through my dirty underwear.... Even with flavored cream and sugar, still among the worst I tasted (more accurate than "dirty underwear": weak and stale).

I, too, got 90 (36 raspberry tea and 18 each of Dark Sienna, Fusion & Mojo Rising) -- too bad they're all 3 YEARS PAST EXPIRATION DATE! *That* may explain the horrible taste (and, well, my underwear being dirty).

I'm definately complaining to Woot...you hear that, Woot???

I've been using mine for two days, and I'm addicted! No more Starbucks! I didn't like the dark roast, but the medium roast was ok. I bought Senseo medium roast pods (which work with this machine) and I'm thrilled that they taste great. Next, I think I'll see if Gevalia pods work. Has anyone tried Gevalia with this machine? I did have a problem trying to prime the machine, but after several attempts and much jiggling, it came through. After it was primed, no more problems. The frother is fantastic.

4 Dark Sienna
:-(

Does anyone have a web link to order more coffee?

mysticfoo wrote:Did anyone else get 4 of the same flavor of coffee pods?

4 Dark Sienna here as well.

Yes, me also--noise like it is pumping, but nothing comes out and soon all lights blink. Mine seemed to have a coffee stain on it--used? I wondered, though seemed wrapped securely.

Has anyone figured out what to do to overcome this problem, short of returning or taking to trash (probably cheaper alternative)?

For those having problems, double check that the water tank is firmly latched in on both sides. It can seem like it's secure even when one side is actually loose, so push it in on both sides. Also, you need a pod holder in there even if you're just doing the initial step where you just run water through the machine without a coffee/tea pod in the machine. If you still have problems, remove the tank and pod holder, turn the machine off for a bit, put everything back and turn the power on again.

I think I'll end up keeping this thing at home instead of at work. It's just too noisy. It's a shame because it would be really convenient here.

newsvideoguy wrote:too bad they're all 3 YEARS PAST EXPIRATION DATE!

I also got all expired coffee. Complained to Woot, and it looks like they're sending me another shipment of coffee. Hopefully it'll be an improvement.

escargot wrote:I also got all expired coffee. Complained to Woot, and it looks like they're sending me another shipment of coffee. Hopefully it'll be an improvement.

I complained (suggested a 50% refund) -- and haven't heard back yet...they're probably too busy working on getting out the Robosapien that I ordered the same day and am still waiting to recieve...

It makes some good coffee with some nice frothy milk. mmmmm good.

ressom wrote:4 Dark Sienna here as well.

Same here- 4 dark sienna.... the coffee taste very weak, and is anything but dark. Totally lacked the flavor of the Bustello coffee that I'm used to.

I also had a bit of trouble getting it started, but made sure the tank was in place and turned the knob a couple of times to restart the pump. That seemed to do the trick.

Where did you guys find the date on the coffee?

mk70 wrote:Same here- 4 dark sienna.... the coffee taste very weak, and is anything but dark. Totally lacked the flavor of the Bustello coffee that I'm used to.

I also had a bit of trouble getting it started, but made sure the tank was in place and turned the knob a couple of times to restart the pump. That seemed to do the trick.

Where did you guys find the date on the coffee?

The date should be on the bottom of the box -- backwords, naturally, so the year is the first digit (most likely a 4 or a 5).

Has anyone else looked at their expiration dates? I've discovered that the "pods" in the stores are only good for 2-6 months so it makes sense that someone cleaning out their warehouse to Woot would have nothing BUT expired pods -- but it still would've been nice to have that inlcuded in the product description. Maybe I'll do a TV news investigation!?!

My fiance ordered me one of these as a surprise. I'd been debating on getting similar machines. I started mine up this morning no problems. It came with 1 box of cocoa dream, 2 boxes of dark sienna and 2 boxes of fruitful tea for a total of 90 pods. If I'm reading these posts and the bottom of my boxes right, I think my pods expired sometime last year.

I'm no coffee connoisseur, but after brewing a cup of cocoa dream and adding my normal amount of sugar, I am very happy with the final result. I was disappointed that I didn't get any espresso pods though, I was looking forward to making a nice cappuccino or latte when I first opened the box. I found 2 sites that may have pods that will work since this brand no longer exists, PODhead.com (thanx to the previous wooter for that link) and www.bettercoffee.com.

What I'm doing: Plugged it in, filled the reservoir up with water, turned on the machine, wait until the power button stops blinking, turned the switch from OFF to BREW, I her the machine buzzing, stops buzzing, buzzing again, and then the power light blinks (to supposedly let you know it's done per the instruction booklet)...all the time, nothing comes out.[/quote]

The same thing happend with me. My brother started pushing all the buttons and turning the knob on the side. When I started it back up, it was working just fine. Maybe it was just having trouble grabbing the water from the back?

OK here's the scoop. Got our machine 7/25/07.
The machine is great for the $23 we paid for it. I have seen the exact same and or similar machines at Wally World for ~$70.00.

We got 90 Pods instead of the 72 we were promised. 54 coffees and 36 teas. Got 3 different coffees, 18 pods of mild Fusion, 18 of medium Mojo Rising and 18 strong Dark Sienna. 36 pods of Raspberry tea, that is so fresh you can smell the raspberry across the room when someone opens a sealed foil packet.
Just because the coffee was packaged in 2005, it is air tight. It will not age until you open the SEALED FOIL packages. How old do you think that can of Folgers you bought last week at Stop&Slop is? It could have been canned 3 years ago and you would never know it.

Anyway, no matter how you cut it, $23.00 for an espresso machine, cappuccino, latte coffee maker with 90 cups of free coffee is a great deal. How much did you spend on coffee at Starbutts last week? Probably more than 23 bucks.

Oh..... and if you really hate your coffee so much, you can send them to me. :-)

Enjoying my Mojo Rising while listening to Jim Morrison and the Doors....................

newsvideoguy wrote:Mine arrived after only a few days, too! AND, it WORKED on the FIRST TRY! Too bad the coffe tastes like it was filtered through my dirty underwear.... Even with flavored cream and sugar, still among the worst I tasted (more accurate than "dirty underwear": weak and stale).

I, too, got 90 (36 raspberry tea and 18 each of Dark Sienna, Fusion & Mojo Rising) -- too bad they're all 3 YEARS PAST EXPIRATION DATE! *That* may explain the horrible taste (and, well, my underwear being dirty).

I'm definately complaining to Woot...you hear that, Woot???

Perhaps you should stop brewing your regular coffee through your dirty underwear.
That way you would not have that taste to compare coffee to.

You can give discountcoffee.com a try for some decent prices. I have found pods for about 30 cents a cup there. Not a bad price for "fresh" coffee. ;-)

Does anyone want to swap pods?

enigmachick wrote:Does anyone want to swap pods?

Are *yours* expired?

P.S. To the Wooter that mentioned "sealed packes" or some other crap like that: ever open a "sealed" can of pop with a year old expiration date? It's flatter than...well it's flatter than anything I can think of right now, so "sealed" is just crap for, well, crap.

Here's what's weird: I'm not a "coffee drinker" in that I only drink frufru coffees with lots of flavor, milk, sugar, etc. So maybe my taste-buds are sensitive to coffee taste. But based on the 10 cups or so I have made of both Dark Sienna and Cocoa Dream, I don't get how anyone can call them weak. Maybe you don't like them, but they sure don't taste or look weak at all to me. Maybe you are using the wrong pod holder. Or maybe I am just wrong.

Also, the Fruitful tea was great. My folks, found it too strong, actually, and added another 50% worth of hot water. As mentioned above, you could smell the berry across the room when the seal was broken.

I have a Mr. Coffee, and single-serving French press, and a McDonald's less than a block away, but this is the most I have drank coffee probably ever.

And thanks for the pod supply links.

TheDeej wrote:Here's what's weird: I'm not a "coffee drinker" in that I only drink frufru coffees with lots of flavor, milk, sugar, etc. So maybe my taste-buds are sensitive to coffee taste. But based on the 10 cups or so I have made of both Dark Sienna and Cocoa Dream, I don't get how anyone can call them weak. Maybe you don't like them, but they sure don't taste or look weak at all to me. Maybe you are using the wrong pod holder. Or maybe I am just wrong.

Also, the Fruitful tea was great. My folks, found it too strong, actually, and added another 50% worth of hot water. As mentioned above, you could smell the berry across the room when the seal was broken.

I have a Mr. Coffee, and single-serving French press, and a McDonald's less than a block away, but this is the most I have drank coffee probably ever.

And thanks for the pod supply links.

Excellent post TheDeej! No, you are not wrong. It seems like the same bunch of people on this sight do nothing but complain about Woot no matter what they sell. I often wonder, why do they keep buying from Woot, if they dislike them so much?

Enjoy your Coffee and Tea.

Four Dark Sienna. This maker is such a large amount of lose It makes one 8 oz cup of coffee per pod. 8 oz. And the Dark Sienna tastes like vending machine coffee. Disappointing woot, this.

cellermeier wrote:Mine just arrived I got 4 Dark Sienna

mine did to wish I would have had different kinds grrrrr

Just got another update from Woot service:

Woot RMA wrote:Actually, we have found that this is not an expiration date. The number
is a batch number. The coffee has no expiry date.

=T

Apparently, this coffee *never* expires! That's right, it will remain delicious forever, to be enjoyed by the cockroaches after the nuclear holocaust :P

Anyway, the point is that Woot won't be sending replacements for these ancient pods. That's okay, at $23 the coffeemaker is still a bargain, and I'll just buy some new pods elsewhere. But I'll need to remember to avoid buying perishables here!

enigmachick wrote:Does anyone want to swap pods?

what pods do you have?

escargot wrote:Just got another update from Woot service:


Apparently, this coffee *never* expires! That's right, it will remain delicious forever, to be enjoyed by the cockroaches after the nuclear holocaust :P

Anyway, the point is that Woot won't be sending replacements for these ancient pods. That's okay, at $23 the coffeemaker is still a bargain, and I'll just buy some new pods elsewhere. But I'll need to remember to avoid buying perishables here!

At least you GOT a response.... Regardless, I would argue that it IS an expiration date if for no other reason than coffe is a FOOD product and ALL food goes bad (except for Twinkies!). Again, hold on to a can of pop for a year or so and then try opening it; same with these pods.

BTW, I *love* many of my Woots (over a dozen) -- and to Woots' credit, they have refunded the one that did not work. Now, if I could only get word on my (#%%^(@& Robosapien....

Mine arrived the middle of last week. I went for it because an old friend had bought on here the last time and gave it his thumbs up.

I was lucky and got four different coffees.... Serenity Roast (decaf), Mojo Rising, French Muse, and Fusion. I'm not that big on tea so this worked out fine.

This unit, though a tad noisy (no big deal), has worked like a champ the 5 or 6 times I've used it. The coffee is a bit weak and maybe a little stale tasting (cured with an extra tsp of sugar), but I really wasn't expecting to be wowed by the coffee itself after reading prior owner comments. Still, I found the taste acceptable enough to make this a great deal all told. I can't wait to try some fresh, name-brand coffee in it.

Great Woot!

Use it everyday! One of the best woots this year!