Country: 104.198.110.24, North America, US

City: -122.0574 California, United States

I thought this was a good idea until I received the product and my first refill order. The Soda maker is very flimsy and won't last for long. The carbonator refills are very expensive. Customer support is non-existent. You cannot find out when an item is coming as they don't provide tracking. They are very slow in filling their orders. My first supply order was for five bottles of syrup and two more plastic storage bottles. Three leaked out in the box and the plastic spare bottles were omitted from the order. The instructions for measuring syrup are vague and customer support gave me four different answers. They are basically clueless and are unable to answer questions and solve problems.

OK, I've had time to use this for a while, and it works pretty well. I put a Vmaxtanks MR107 battery in it. Likes: Plastic is reasonably thick, top seems very sturdy, and I like the built in meter. Dislikes: The single strap holding the top to bottom is not enough (if it lets go, out comes the battery) and I added another strap in the other direction. The design should include two straps. My battery is smaller, so the battery can flop around the case a bit, so I jammed some foam blocks in there to keep it secure. Also, where you grab the tub to carry the battery with two hands on the sides, the plastic should be rounded (A 50 pound battery digs into your hands a bit while carrying) - so use the single handle for comfort. I would love to see an (optional) shoulder carry strap for this so you could more easily carry to/from your small boat. Lastly, the battery wingnuts should really include a rubber strap holding them to the battery. As it is now, it's easy to leave the wingnuts on your bench after charging the battery, or drop them in the water by accident.

I paid full price for this printer and had high hopes for it. I'm still on the fence about whether to keep it or return it. I'm a Realtor and wanted to print flyers. While the ink bottle advantage is indisputable, FORGET DOUBLE-SIDED PRINTING! At least 40% of the double-sided prints are unusable, page 2 is almost always messed up. It cost me a good stack of wasted high-quality paper until the light bulb went off above my frustrated head: Print a stack of page 1, flip it (or actually, put it back in the paper tray facing up) and then print the same quantity of page 2. HUGE DIFFERENCE! The quality and color density is so much better, and it prints faster but you have to be there to handle it; there is no clicking "print 200 double-sided pages" and walk off to do something else. The tray holds very little paper. Also, every time you put the one-sided prints back into the tray, remember to pull out the paper landing extension so your prints don't trip and fold over each other.