This French press was a terrible disappointment. Don't believe the gaurs tee there is ...
938077
This French press was a terrible disappointment. Don't believe the guarantee there is none. You're just sent to a video where the owner try's to sell you more stuff. It is a very flimsy press. It takes serious attention and care to not cover youreself in hot coffee. Now I can't return it despite all their hype.
4696018
I received the same French press as a gift. When I went to open it, the glass had been broken and what remained was cracked. I like a French press but never had the chance to try this one. My impression is that the glass is very thin, chintzy, and I would not buy it. I looked at the top 100 and found some French coffee presses I liked. No1,2,3,6 and 7 in particular look great. Bodum Chambord, SterlingPro 8 cup, Kona , SterlingPro Double Wall Stainless Steel 8 cup. (I noticed there was a SterlingPro 6 cup as well. I personally would steer clear of that one as it looks exactly like the one I have that broke even though it's only 6 cups and mine says 8 cups) Last, Utopia Kitchen triple filters. I don't see how one could go wrong with any of those. I don't know why mine was broken but I attribute it to quality control since the lady friend who gave it to my wife and I would never have given us something she dropped. I am lucky I have 3 great coffee makers or I'd be buying one now.
4175559
Received as a gift.  Less expensive french presses actually work, unlike this one. The point of a french press is to eliminate grounds in your cup of coffee.  This one fails at that completely.  The seal is too small to begin with, so it doesn't make uniform contact with the container and then the gimmicky coffee grounds lifter made the seal "worse".  Honestly, it's not that hard to flick out the used grounds in the trash or compost and rinse the rest down the drain.
4696405
Don't be fooled, this is marketed along with all the identical french press cups, but this stupid cup does not have the press, just a cap.  Very deceiving because it comes up with all the french press cups and looks the same so it is easy to get screwed buying this incomplete product.  Normally at retail, you get the french press and the extra cap but this has no french press, just what is supposed to be the extra cap.
3048492
This coffee maker terrible.  It lasted less than a month.  It worked for a week and now it steams half of the water out that is put into it and therefore the coffee is super strong.  We went to the store and bought a Mr Coffee for about 20 bucks so it will be easy to return when it fails.  What a disappointment. We never want another Melitta product.
2144749
Terrible coffee; passed off crappy Colombian beans as french roast.  I do not recommend this coffee. Do yourself a favor and look for another brand
4833125
Very disappointed in General Foods International Coffees! I've purchased their retail tins previously and thought these bags were that same product in bulk...NOT EVEN CLOSE! I'm still waiting for the French Vanilla taste and aroma. At best this is a very weak hot chocolate AKA flavored hot water :( So when I greedily purchased TWO BATCHES on the cheap to enjoy throughout the rest of the year, I'm the one that got the bad deal. The product will be used as a coffee creamer, hot chocolate enhancer, and a donation to the local food pantry.

BE forewarned and DO NOT fall for the "Cappuccino" label OR the General Foods International Coffees reputation. I CANNOT recommend this product even at rock bottom prices of 2 bucks a bag.

UPDATE: This item is not labeled for retail sale
DIRECTIONS: Recommended gram throw for for vending or automatic dispensers is 3 to5 grams of cappucino mix per 1 fluid ounce of water, depending upon desired flavor strength...French Vanilla Creme
993957
This coffee maker has been an absolute disaster. Too many failure points, leaking, coffee doesn't get hot or stay hot in carafe. Shocked how disappointed I am.
1195262
We went from the DGB 900 to this machine after the old one broke. Buy the 900!!
This machine grinds poorly and the coffee is weak as a result.
A terrible design, it requires extensive cleaning every time it's used because steam from the brewing process enters it's mechanics, making a coffee dust sludge throughout.
The designers put very little thought into the cleaning of this device, so typically a vacuum cleaner or totally inverting the machine over a sink are your only options.
A standalone grinder and a cheap Mr Coffee would be a major upgrade from this system.
It's only redeeming quality?
I plan on salvaging it's heating element to get our old Dgb900 back on line.
4828291
First of all, this is NOT a large coffee press. My companion and I still need our own presses as this one, filled, yields a mug and a half. I feel that was deceptive. Thankfully, this situation is automatically designed to change itself and I will not have to put up with this french press much longer. The glass container fits very, very loosely into the plastic, I mean there is not one little bit of resistance. It's only a matter of time til it slides out and breaks into the dishwasher or floor. The press screen mechanism/screw is also very thin and flimsy, so I got that familiar feeling of "boy, they're cheaping these down now, too!" when I first saw it.

 Keep shopping, almost every french press I've ever owned is better than this.
959817
I owned the prior CoffeeTeam GS (big black plastic thing) for 7 years. It finally had so much calcification that wouldn't clean out I had to get rid of it, and got this one. Wow wow wow hugely disappointing.
I have been using it for 6 months, which is plenty of time to experience it (and experiment with it).

Anyone that is serious about coffee eventually discovers that gravity is key to getting 100% of the grounds in a filter wet. The only way to take advantage of gravity is to use a vertical-shaped filter- of course that's physically impossible, so the closest thing is a conical shape. (Krups knows this for years- all their stuff uses CONE filters.
The original CoffeeTeams unit I had used a cone shaped filter.  In order to save space and make this new unit smaller, they instead employed a basket filter. DEVIL. DEVIL. DEVIL. Run. Run far far away.

The burr grinder is flawless, as was the original. However there is something amiss with the grounds-delivery design where either one or both of these 2 things happen:  a. Not enough grounds end up getting into the basket; b. (more often than not) a pile of grounds ends up in the basket in a mountain piled high against one side of the basket. No matter which setting you've chosen (I have tried them all), if after brewing is done, you take a spoon and examine what is underneath that ant-hill (thats what it looks like) you will find an upsettingly-dry pile of grounds below, which the water never touched.

This matches what I see each time I use the grind and brew cycle of this machine:  No matter which setting you choose, you immediately notice when pulling out the carafe to pour, how lightly brown colored the water is, like brook water.
I like coffee, not brook water. It seems like the only way to get anything right out of this unit is to brew setting for 8 cups, but only put 6 cups of water in. ANY other combination will not work.
I also noticed how many beans this thing uses...when the bean storage cup is full, whether brewing 4 6 or 8 cups, you will notice immediately how empty the bean storage cup is afterwards. Its just weird. (If you're gonna use all my beans you better be strong, bitch.)

I emailed Capresso about all of this and of course got a form letter response: "Please call us via telephone so we can troubleshoot your machine."
What what???  You're going to walk me thru re-designing this unit over the phone?
Not.

Of course too late for me to return it.
1477501
I was very dissapointed in this product.  I wasted $60 for a leaky machine with very few choices of coffee.  Just save up a few more bucks and get yourself a Keurig.
446055
With its pretty neat packaging, at least from the picture online, I thought I would get a half decent coffee.  Buyers beware! Regardless of its price, this is by far the worse coffee I have ever drank.  The taste is borderline crude oil with a mixture washing machine water with dirty clothes. I wouldn't not recommend this to anybody even if it was FREE!
4912462
There is absolutely no difference from the course setting and the fine setting, If you intend to use this grinder for a french press you better enjoy drinking cowboy camp coffee sludge because this grinder sucks! I'd have returned it but had already recycled the box. Going straight to Good Will, maybe some other schmuck will get some use out of it.
2450718
Pretty terrible. To fill it up is awkward. It leaks everywhere while brewing and we end up with more coffee or water on the counter than in the cup. I definitely would not recommend. I have other Hamilton Beach small appliances that I'm very happy with but I can say I HATE this.
1104867
Not a good french press. I kept experimenting on different water temperature grind types and duration of brewing and failed to get a flavorful cup.

Then, there are the nuts that hold the press together.  It wouldn't.  Everyday you had to tighten the nuts otherwise,you took the chance of losing them in the coffee grounds or swallowing it with your coffee.
4904016
After attempting to post a review on TassimoDirect.com - and then looking for the review days later - I realized that that squashed my comments on this new product. Together with the Gevalia Colombia (New - horrible product), this coffee is another huge disappointment, initially the taste is good, but the lingering burnt aftertaste is just absolutely awful. The quality assurance in the choice of beans and processing is clearly lacking with this company, and it is depressing that they will let this wonderful concept fall to the likes of Keurig, which just pushes water through a plastic cup.