Product review (5 stars): ... purchased this item and I could not be more pleased! The packaging was excellent and a visual inspection
I recently purchased this item and I could not be more pleased!  The packaging was excellent and a visual inspection, when compared to the GE original equipment that I removed, showed that they were identical, at least to the naked eye.  I purchaced two GE OEM filters before and refused to change them, even though the warning light indicated that I should do so, until the ice maker "slowed to a crawl."  I just could not beleive that I spent a little over $55.00 each time for the OEM filters.  My thoughts were, "This is highway robbery!"  At that point, I was willing to put the "plug" back in the unit and not use a filter at all.  When I found this filter on Amazon at about half-the-price, I thought it might be worth a try.  I read all the reviews - good and bad - and thought that it was, at the very least, worth a gamble.  Any original hesitation that I had was soon dispelled when I installed it.  It when in as easy as (if not more so) than the first two OEM filters that I purchased and I only had to run about three sixteen-once glasses of water before it ran clear.  It doesn't leak and I could not be happier with my purchase.  The next time, though, I will buy the two-pack to save a little bit more.  There is no virtue in overspending!