Product review (2 stars): Might Work for a Camping Trip, or a One Time Party...
Purchased this item and 8 months later it is useless.

Was very excited to get this and hopeful that the days of buying ice would be over!  For the first week it was so neat - a little noisy, and the ice cubes melted incredibly fast - but then, what do expect when they all have holes in them...  So there are these rods, and they get super cold, enough to freeze the water around them - so you have these little playing dice sized cubes with a hole in the middle, where the rod was.

Melted REALLY fast, and always kind of watery - the bin wasn't cold enough to keep them frozen for long at all, but it was okay for what we needed... for a bit...

The bin and all the parts inside started getting moldy SUPER fast.  We figured with constant use we could go maybe a week without shutting it down and doing a thorough cleaning - but no, we ended up just using the ice to keep the sodas cold.  I wouldn't put ice from this machine inside my drink now for anything - there are too many tiny areas that are too difficult to get to and I could never get it completely clean.

But still - it kept our drinks cold, we were okay.

Then today - the red light indicating the bin was full went on, and the bin wasn't full.  We've tried everything, gone online and researched it, and basically what we're being told is to just call it dead.  While we might be able to get the manufacturer to repair/replace, we would have to pay the shipping and some kind of co-pay that would make it much more worthwhile to put the money towards a better one and call the bit we paid for this one - a valuable learning experience.

Learn from our mistakes. :)  Also, I encourage everyone to wait a year before reviewing appliance-type purchases.  Lots of things that work great for the first while end up as doorstops, and I think a year is a fair trial to see if the item you bought possesses true quality or not.  Just a thought. :)