Product review (5 stars): I'm happy, happy, happy!
I bought this ice maker after the one in our 15+ year old refrigerator died and can't be fixed for less than the price of a new refrigerator.  I bought bags of ice for a couple of months, but that got old quickly, so I decided to try this route.

We're actually on our 2nd unit.  The first one ordered didn't even work fresh out of the box.  Even though I'm a good Prime customer Amazon surprised me with how easy it was to return it.  Kudos to Amazon for that.  Made me even a happier customer.

I bought the same unit for the 2nd one because I'd researched ice makers before buying this the 1st time, and this unit had so many happy customers and was the size and color to not look out of place in our kitchen.  So far I'm delighted, but it's only been a month.  If it dies, I'll update this review then.

Since I wanted it to replace my refrigerator ice maker, I wanted to dump the ice from the maker in the dispenser bucket in the refrigerator and use it from there.  The ice is quite wet if you don't dump it after each and every freezing cycle.  There aren't very many ice cubes produced each cycle and it becomes a nuisance do keep up.  If you dump it into the refrigerator ice dispenser, you have it refreezing onto the existing ice and making large clumps of ice that won't go through the dispenser.  Not good!

The solution I found is to put a full bucket of ice from the ice maker into a large plastic bag and lay it on top of the ice in the ice dispenser in the refrigerator until the next bucket is full.  By then it's frozen hard enough to crack to plastic bag on the counter and empty into the ice dispenser before emptying the ice maker bucket into the same plastic bag.  I've found that I can get 2-3 full ice maker buckets or more while making dinner and cleaning up.  If I forget to empty a bucket full of ice, the ice maker stops.  The ice melts and the water recycles until I think about it again.  I can restart it when I remember or need more ice.  Since the water is very cold from the melting, the ice is fast and large.

I'm happy, happy, happy!  For a family that goes through a lot of ice routinely, this is wonderful.