Fortunately for me, I did not read the reviews for this unit prior to purchasing. I ordered this unit off Amazon & it works great. I found that none of the complaints that people made about this unit occurred. Absolutely no problems with carafe seating properly. Carafe seats better in unit than any other automatic coffee maker that I have owned. Temperature is at perfect range. The unit also has nice features for automatically shutting off. There are also nice audible alerts to notify you when it is finished making the coffee as well as when it is turning off. The complaint about the lid being set up differently was incorrect as well. I found it to be an unusual design, but it did not cause any operational problems. No problems with overflow of the filters if you purchase the correct paper filters that work in the unit. I tried it with the paper filters that came with it & it did overflow. I then used some paper filters that I had for my older unit that were larger & no longer had this problem.

To wrap up, I would say again that this is the best automatic coffee maker that I have ever owned & would recommend it to others. The unit also is at a great price when I bought it for $33.00 from Amazon.

I have tried and tried and tried. This product stinks. Often the coffee tastes like plastic for some reason. I have traded filters, rinsed the unit, rinsed and washed the filter unit over and over again. Just cannot make a good cup of coffee happen consistently.

I have had this coffeemaker for a little over a year now and just yesterday I happened to notice the whole reservoir was growing a nice layer of MOLD all over everything!!!!!! I yanked out that filter thingy, which is covered with brown slime, and turned the whole coffeemaker upside down. I hesitate to use a bleach/water mixture to clean it for fear my coffee will taste like bleach! I'm considering throwing this coffeemaker away and buying a whole new one. I wish there was a way to remove the reservoir in order to clean it thoroughly. I CAN'T BELIEVE I'VE BEEN DRINKING MOLDY COFFEE ALL THIS TIME!!! WHO KNOWS HOW LONG THAT MOLD HAS BEEN IN THERE!!!! YUCK!

The lid on the Carafe is so poorly designed, that in just a few short months, the flanges on the cafafe broke off, rendering the lid practically useless. The company would replace the lid, but not the carafe which was the problem. I'll not buy another KitchenAid coffee maker.

I bought this coffee maker approximately 5-6 months ago and had used it almost everyday. After 4-5 times walking into my kitchen first thing in the morning and seeing how most of the coffee was on my counter top staining my grout, instead of the glass carafe, I returned it and gave it a funeral. I gave it a few chances thinking it was user error (not putting carafe in properly), but after so many chances and floods, I gave up. This is a serious design flaw and if it hasn't happened yet, it will soon.