Product review (5 stars): You want cold?
This drink refrigerator is amazing! It is the only fridge under $1000 that I have seen that will cool to 34F, and it actually does. I originally bought a similar fridge that was advertised to cool to 38F and cost $200 less. Not only did the fridge arrive poorly packaged, but it was superficially damaged.  Furthermore, it never registered a reading lower than 41F from my digital thermometer.  In the end I returned it and bought the Avallon.

From the moment it arrived my experience was different. It arrived in a well-packaged box via freight delivery on a pallet, with a pallet "do not stack" cone. The box design is ingenious, as the bottom is a separate piece of cardboard and easily separates from the top. That brings me to its footprint: its quite big to be designed for under-counter installation. I had measured the intended space for the fridge and I had exactly 34.5 inches. NOTE: you will need every bit of that space and possibly more. I had to take the feet off, put on some furniture pads to barely avoid metal scraping the floor, and I still had to remove the vinyl flooring to get this behemoth to fit under that counter. I would not recommend buying this fridge if you are set on positioning the fridge under the counter and don't ABSOLUTELY have 34.5 inches to work with. Also, I don't know who has the extra 2-3 inches of depth to provide the ventilation that is recommended in the instruction manual, but I don't so it's recessed as much as possible.

I have also read some people feel that the compressor is loud. Maybe because my fridge is such a tight fit against a concrete wall that I do not hear it, but this thing is quiet to my sensitive hearing. Another great feature is the lighting. The lights are placed on every level of the unit and really illuminate the space in an unobstructed way, which I know sounds inconsequential, but makes it look very luxurious. As I mentioned, this fridge really cools as advertised. Maybe even too well!  I had to bump up the thermostat to 36F because I have registered a temperature as low as 28-30F when the compressor kicks on (see picture).

I did buy the extended warranty offered from Amazon because stainless steel drink fridges are expensive as a lot, and there always seems to be a lemon out there. That said, Avallon has a one-year factory warranty AND will repair/replace your compressor for five years after the date of purchase. I haven't dealt personally with their customer service department, and I hope I don't have to, but it seems like the company stands by their product. My only complaint is that I have had my eye on it for 8 months and it recently went up in price from $719 to $899.

In summary, if cold drinks are important to you, don't be fooled by the lower prices of comparable models. This one is the real deal!