Product review (5 stars): Does the job
If you look at the 1-3 star reviews, you will see most of those people did not buy from Amazon but through a 3rd party. If you bought the filter from Amazon, you will receive the correct filter as I did. Other poor reviews are from people complaining about the price, I found Amazon has the lowest price so that is where I bought it along with the FREE Super Saver shipping. It's not Amazon's fault this GE filter is expensive. The purpose of reviews is to review the product, not a 3rd party seller or to complain about something out of Amazon's control. Now on to the filter review...The box says change it every 6 months but I live alone so I change mine about 9-12 months and never noticed the difference. I imagine if you have a family of 4, you would want to change it every 6 months. It took about 2 minutes to remove the old filter and install the new one without reading the instructions. Just unscrew the old one and screw in the new one and you are done. You will know when it in place by the feel of it. Buying bottled water is a waste of money, just get it from your fridge.