Product review (2 stars): Skeptical at first, pleased, and then disappointed later on
It's hard to buy water filters online. You don't know if you're getting some fake chinese garbage with used toilet paper stuffed inside it or not. After cycling through the initial 2-3 gallons to flush the filter out, I really feel like I'm getting clean, good tasting water. I would buy these filters again. And whoever had the idea to include stickers stating which month you installed it is a genius.

**Update
I bought this in a 2 pack. The first one was fine. Then after changing the second one out when the old one was done, I had problems. I kept running gallon after gallon through the filter. Little black specks of carbon kept coming out. I ran five cycles of ice. That didn't work. Now there are no more black specks, but the water comes through filled with god-knows-what? It honestly looks like when you add fiber to water, how little flakes float around. I'm forced to buy my next product from a different company. Disappointed as the first one gave me no issues.