Product review (1 stars): Slowed to a trickle in 2 weeks
These filters are supposed to last between 4 and 6 months, which they indeed have for most of the 10 years we've owned our GE fridge. Over the last 18 months, we've had several filters that stopped working within a month. This particular one stopped working after two weeks. The one before that made it for all of two months. (I write the install date on all my filters. Lately, I've been keeping them for evidence). (nothing wrong with fridge. With bypass plug, water flows perfectly. And we have NYC tap water, coming in through pretty new pipes. No particulates showing up in our faucet strainers that would explain an unusual rate of clogging up.)

I'm not sure if GE is making bad filters, or whether Amazon or Amazon sellers are trading in fakes. GE doesn't want to hear about it, because the filters weren't bought directly from them. Presumably they are manufacturing them, and the only ones who really know what's inside, and kinda responsible for it. But how would I know? At $40/pop, the rationale for counterfeits is pretty compelling.

At 2 filters/year, we're talking $90 (with shipping). Not cheap, but ok.

Since the end of April, I've bought three filters. All GE MWF OEM. That's $135 in a little over three months, which at that rate comes to roughly $540/year. For filtered water and ice from the fridge!! I don't think so.