Product review (5 stars): ... mine up used and I think this is a pretty good product
Picked mine up used and I think this is a pretty good product.  My wife laughed at me at first, wondering what would prompt me to buy this machine...now she is a believer!  It makes small batches of ice fairly quickly (8-10 minutes per batch)...store the cubes in a larger, ziplock bag in your freezer and you will have a ready supply of plenty of ice.  Where we live it is hot and humid all summer long, so a good investment!  Not sure about the complaints of ice sticking together...true, the ice is in pellet format, approx 1" long and hollow in the middle, and it will start to melt in the ice reservoir, but it splits up quite readily and is easy to handle, and as a positive by-product because of its shape there is more ice surface in your drink to get it cold fast.  The industrial design of this machine (and others like it) is quite ingenious, too difficult to describe here.  My machine has a bit of problem in that the ice scooping trowel (for want of a better word) gets stuck sometimes and requires a bit of manual coaxing...after a bit it works just fine.  This is probably the same style of unit you will find made by other manufacturers, with a Coke logo on it.  Overall, a handy dandy machine, definitely glad I picked it up and wish I had done so ages ago.