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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Great product I would would recommend it to anybody
this coffee machine has saved my wife and I at least $80 in the month that we have had it. It is easy to use, even though the instructions that come with it were a little vague, once you use it a couple times there are no more problems. The only little thing I would change about it is that you cannot froth milk at the same time as pulling shots but considering this...
Published 15 months ago by d. jeffrey
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
Broke within 6 weeks
I bought this on a Friday sale for a great discount over normal price. However, I was underwhelmed by the quality as soon as I took it out of the box. Almost all parts are made of cheap plastic. Several controls are unintuitive and accessible only by opening coffee bean tank. Manual is poorly written.
Most importantly the machine started breaking down...
Published 22 months ago by S. Mehta
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
Broke within 6 weeks, September 25, 2008
This review is from: Saeco A-SPV-SV Spidem Villa Super-Automatic Espresso Machine, Silver (Kitchen)
I bought this on a Friday sale for a great discount over normal price. However, I was underwhelmed by the quality as soon as I took it out of the box. Almost all parts are made of cheap plastic. Several controls are unintuitive and accessible only by opening coffee bean tank. Manual is poorly written.
Most importantly the machine started breaking down within one month and completely stopped working in 6 weeks.
The company has poor customer service with long wait times. They don't pay for shipping for warranty service. Be careful if you decide to buy this and don't throw away the packaging materials. They make you pay for those too.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Great Espresso Machine, September 3, 2009
This review is from: Saeco A-SPV-SV Spidem Villa Super-Automatic Espresso Machine, Silver (Kitchen)
This machine was a replacement for a beloved Saeco Magic Deluxe which faithfully served great espresso for years. The machine does not disappoint. It looks great, although mostly plastic. The buttons are a bit flimsy and I wish it could accept ground coffee rather than beans-only. The espresso is superb and you can't really go wrong with this unit.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Great product I would would recommend it to anybody, April 28, 2009
This review is from: Saeco A-SPV-SV Spidem Villa Super-Automatic Espresso Machine, Silver (Kitchen)
this coffee machine has saved my wife and I at least $80 in the month that we have had it. It is easy to use, even though the instructions that come with it were a little vague, once you use it a couple times there are no more problems. The only little thing I would change about it is that you cannot froth milk at the same time as pulling shots but considering this feature would cost another $200-$300 I can definitely live without it. makes great tasting coffee and was a great purchase.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Better than expected!, February 24, 2009
My wife really wanted a semi-automatic espresso machine and this machine had fairly solid reviews on most of the coffee sites so we decided to give it a try. We purchased this machine to replace our Breville 800ESXL. I had mixed emotions about this because the Breville is just a beautiful machine that's built like a tank. The Saeco Spidem is almost entirely made of plastic and in many regards feels cheaply made. The buttons are a good example, they wobble when pressed. But I was very pleasantly surprised by the quality of espresso that this machine delivers. We had some LavAzza beans that produced an espresso we did not enjoy when used in our Breville machine but when the same beans were processed in the Saeco Spidem, we LOVED the result. That's pretty hard to ignore. The machine itself is very simple to use assuming you've had some experience with home espresso machines but could stand to be a bit more intuitive in it's design. I wouldn't worry much about complaints concerning the machines controls which allow you to set grind size, amount of coffee used and amount of water dispensed. Once you find the proper setting for each you'll be unlikely to change them. The machines filter did clog on me once but rinsing the filter and adjusting the grind setting fixed the problem. For the price the machine makes a very nice cup of espresso. Draw backs are styling, size (it's big) and materials. Definitely worth a look though for anyone interested in the convenience of a semi-automatic machine for a good price.
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
Don't buy unless you love doing maintenance..., November 12, 2008
This review is from: Saeco A-SPV-SV Spidem Villa Super-Automatic Espresso Machine, Silver (Kitchen)
This machine has been problematic from the beginning. I'm stubborn, so I've tried for one year to keep up with the maintenance and make the machine work properly. I'm finally ready to give up. If you decide to buy, read the maintenance instructions VERY carefully and do everything it tells you to do...good luck!
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Run from this piece of junk., July 10, 2010
Makes a great cup of coffee when it works. I did all the normal maintenance that was recommended in the manual. I drank on average 8 cups a day from this machine when it died after 23 months. It has been in and out of 2 different repair shops 4 times in the past 6 months. When you spend $500 on an espresso machine, you expect it to last more than 2 years. The Spidem is back in the repair shop as I type this review.
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Excellent, it is just oerfect coffe machine!, July 4, 2009
This review is from: Saeco A-SPV-SV Spidem Villa Super-Automatic Espresso Machine, Silver (Kitchen)
Great product, for coffee lovers.
It makes coffee just like in the big coffee shops. You put the coffee beans, water and it does the rest, pouring great coffees!
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Solid, trouble free, easy to use, March 12, 2009
Bought the earlier version of this machine, which is exactly the same arrangement as this one except for the new, rounder, case molding shape. Same switches, same guts, same operation. Used it for two years, making 12 cups of espresso daily (we're writers Undress for Success: The Naked Truth about Making Money at Home and work at home). On occasion we rinsed out the guts, only twice did we descale it. Nothing lasts forever and it finally developed a grinding noise inside, and we opted for a new one--although this might have been repaired for a couple hundred dollars. Still, if we'd stopped at Starbucks everyday, as we used to, we'd have spent (say 300 days, times 2 years times $7 for two lattes) $[...]! Let's not forget the coffee, so to be extravagant let's say we spent $50 a month for beans (it was less, really), so $479 + $1200 = $1679. We saved still saved $[...], not counting car cost to get there and home.
Oh, and the espresso, which is after all, the point? Outstanding. Yes some of the controls are inside the bean hopper. So? You set them once and never change them. It's plastic. So? You want chrome buy a '56 Chevy. Other than our Apple products we don't have another device that we find ourselves saying, "Boy I really like that machine" over and over. Okay, well, maybe our Toyota Prius, but it doesn't make coffee or do word processing (yet).
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Push button expresso, February 19, 2009
This is the 3rd expresso maker of this type by Saeco (now Spidem) that I've owned. It's easy to use and maintain. It's not the fanciest looking machine but it makes an excellent expresso and you can vary the settings according to your taste, needs, and preference. Would buy again....and again. I have one at home and at the office; the 3rd one was used overseas on different voltage and donated to my office over there.
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Excellent coffee maker, November 25, 2008
This coffee is well built, very easy to operate, easy to clean. It makes excellent espresso, or latte. The strength of the coffee (coarse or fine grinding) is adjustable. As delivered and set at the factory, the coffee was somewhat too strong for me, but I was able to adjust the grinding to a level that I like trivially. It is an excellent product. My only concern was the price -- it is expensive.
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