Customer Reviews

Russell Hobbs RHCM3390 8-Cup Programmable Coffeemaker, Silver

5 star:		(6)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(16)

 

 

Great looks on this coffee pot with interesting angles and clean-lined stainless not common to this price range. However, carafe is major downfall. The thin walled carafe will not shatter like similar glass designs, but is uncomfortable and drippy while pouring. Also, the poorly constructed handle is attached with screws and cheap plastic. Consequently, the handle separated from my carafe within 40 uses. Strongly not recommended

This coffemaker was good until I cleaned it. It now dribbles coffee from the seal when you pour.Messy, Messy, Messy! Imagine pouring your early morning cup of coffee in the sink every morining so you don't burn yourself because of the poor construction of this product. Defect? I think not. I took a chance and purchased this item after I read a review of someone who had the simular problem. Next time i'll heed the warnings of previous consumers.

I was online searching endlessly for a coffeemaker that had certain features. Well this one was the perfect size, it had a timer and the stainless steel feature was what i was looking for. I had read the reviews on this product and none of them were good, but the price was right so i gave it a try. When i received it there was already a plastic piece broken off and when i put water in it all came out the bottom. I returned it the next day wishing i had listened to the negative reviews. There is a reason why its priced so cheap, because it is cheap.

This coffee maker does not have an automatic shut off mechanism, it only shuts off after 2 hours if you program it to come on automatically. (Very inconvenient). Carafe is difficult to remove from machine when you want to pour a cup of coffee. NOT WORTH THE MONEY!

The coffeemaker is a piece of junk. I bought this for my son for his birthday and he got it and it worked two times and then it didnt come back on. So I sent it back and they replaced it with another one and it worked for the first day and it quit working too. So I requested a refund.

Good coffee maker for the price, although getting the coffee in the filter is a little difficult.

TERRIBLE! this really is a bad machine..i highly advise not buying..mine was broken right out of the box!

I bought this item based on price, how can you go wrong for 10$ for a programable coffee maker? Well, you get what you pay for. after having this coffee pot for only 3 weeks, it just stopped working! Just to ship it back would have been the cost of the item! based on the rest of the reviews, I just threw away and went out and bought a mr. coffee. lesson learned.

treehouse

First the bad news -- the Amazon product description is misleading. Well, flat-out wrong, in fact. This coffeemaker doesn't come with a thermal carafe. In reality, the carafe is very thin aluminum, like lightweight metal cookware that you buy for backpacking. So -- not just not thermal, but this sucker gets HOT when it's full of fresh coffee.

Also, it doesn't have a "permanent filter." It has a standard plastic swing-out filter basket, and comes with a reusable nylon filter. Nothing wrong with that (it's nice to get one packaged with the machine, actually) but the above description of a "permanent stainless-steel filter basket" isn't accurate.

The water tank maxes out at 28 oz., which is enough for two big (16 oz.) mugs at my house. Since I'm the only coffee drinker, this is fine.

On the other hand, it was as inexpensive as it is cheaply made. Despite the ridiculous, deliberately misleading retail price listed (as of March '07 as I write this, it says it retails for $85.99!) I got it for ten bucks plus shipping, and it's worth about that. Add shipping cost, and it was under $20, and it's programmable. It's worth noting that the programmable function turns off the hot plate after two hours, but if you use the coffeemaker manually you have to remember to turn it off yourself so that you don't, I assume, melt the cheap metal carafe.

It looks nice on the counter. It makes coffee. For me, it's a perfectly acceptable replacement coffeemaker that I bought on the spur of the moment when my previous machine broke -- but that's all it is, a temporary replacement. In this case, you get what you pay for, and I'm saving my pennies to get a better coffeemaker in a couple of months.

This product recieved before expected. It works great. I read several bad reviews about it after ordered but found that none of those were true. We love ours.