Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Stopped working after a year and a few months

I purchased this for my mom for a christmas present. That was december of 2010. Now it is February 2012 and it does not work anymore. I have gone through the manual and online reviews. It seems there is a big percentage of folks that have it crap out on them. You fill the water, fill the grounds, put the lid on the carafe, set it to brew and turn it on and nothing happens. I'm an engineer by trade, starting diagnosing, it appears some of the electronics inside burned out. Most likely they are putting cheap electronics from china / taiwan which will always have a pretty large failure rate on parts. So don't buy this, unless you want to gamble with your money that you won't be one of 20-30% that have a problem.That all being said, it does have a 3 year warranty, but I'm not going through the hassle of gambling for another one and wasting shipping (20 total for both ways) when I can just buy a cheapy from walmart that will last until I'm dead and buried.