Product review (1 stars): Buy the Extended Warranty
We love the ice maker and it worked great for 6 months. After doing research, we noticed that pretty much every ice maker in this price range has issues with breaking down so we bought the protection plan. Sure enough, after 6 months ours broke down.

I'll update with new developments but currently trying to get in touch with the manufacturer since that warranty still should apply. If they won't honor the warranty then the Asurion protection plan will kick in.

UPDATE: Well, the seller took it back for repair. Of course, I had to pay $32.00 to ship it to them which will not be reimbursed. Then the seller sent it back to my old address even though I included my new address with the returned unit. The seller informs me that this is my fault because apparently I should have known that (1) they would ignore the address I included when I shipped it to them, (2) that they "have" to send it to the address that it was originally shipped to 9 months ago, and (3) that I needed to call or email them to tell them I moved since I originally purchased the unit 9 months ago.

Obviously, none of this could possibly be the seller's fault. They couldn't possibly be responsible for not bothering to inquire about disparate addresses or informing me about their shipping policy. And they certainly couldn't do any of that in a polite manner. I will never buy from this seller again. Hopefully, I can recover my property from my old address since the seller saw fit to send it there. Will update once I have a resolution one way or another.

UPDATE 2:
I recovered the unit from my old address. Opened it up and surprise, no repairs were made at all. The unit has the exact problem it had when I sent it back. So now, I paid $32 to ship this to the seller only for them to ship it to the wrong address without actually fixing it. Contacted them again and they are going to refund the purchase price once I return the item. They even provided a shipping label this time. They are refunding the cost because they flatly refuse to ship the item to my new address. I'll give a final update once I actually get the refund.

UPDATE 3:

Still no refund. The seller confirmed they had received the product and stated they would issue a refund on 9/15/16. It's 10/14/16 and still no refund. I cannot state strongly enough: do not buy anything from this seller.