Product review (4 stars): Saved my summer drinks!
Since its arrival on 6/22 it has been used daily.  The interior ice maker in my fridge stopped working.  I bought this after looking at reviews for many counter top ice makers.  It seems they all have some unhappy purchasers so I relied on Amazon's return policy but have not needed it for this.

My fridge ice maker is in the bottom freezer and it was not terribly efficient to have to open the freezer drawer each time I needed ice, hence my decision to not pay to get the fridge's ice maker fixed. I drink a lot of ice tea and water all year but during the summer my use of ice increases greatly. I live alone and this machine is perfect.  It makes more ice each day than I need so I just put the extra ice in the fridge's freezer ice container.

Because the ice this machine makes is a bit "soft" and wet it does freeze together once in the freezer but this is easily fixed by putting a dish towel over it and gently hitting the ice with my meat tenderizer.  By collecting the extra ice in the freezer I then have enough for my ice tea maker, which uses quite a bit of ice.

I have the counter space for it and I'm not sure how it could be made smaller-which would be nice.  It is about the size of a bread maker and no more, or less, noisy depending on the brand.  The only thing that would improve it in my opinion is if it were actually able to keep the ice frozen, but then I can see that it would not only be larger but also more expensive!

Purchased this in June of 2016. Update Feb 2017.  I have used this most days for drinks as stated above.  It works like a champ.  Love it. No problems with it.  I use the "large" size ice cubes for it.