Not a happy camper with this one.
341740
Really not happy with this toy. Bought it for my grandson for Christmas. It is not what it appears to be in the photos. It is made of styrofoam and a leg was broken when it arrived. The company was gracious in providing return information, but I was very disappointed in the quality of the toy
4644413
I seriously wanted to love the Coleman HWOD, but it just isn't going to happen.  My husband, after a few not-so-magic-moments figured hed give it a zero plus rating.  I do have to give some rating and that will be a one ... I simply hate this thing.  We wanted it for two reasons, primarily for a fall moose hunt in Maine to give the hunters some warm water in the field.  Secondly, it would be a great addition to our emergency kit.  It would be much easier to heat water on a simple, inexpensive Coleman stove and use a gravity-fed shower head to draw hot water from a bucket.

Every time I turned on the Coleman HWOD, I managed to get sprayed when the shower head pumped out some water.  Mind you, everything needs to be in place before starting.  Plan on purchasing some calcium, lime, and rust remover prior to receiving the HWOD because it should be cleaned prior to your first use.  Fine, but Id rather have everything in place first.  It will need to be cleaned on a yearly basis.

Before cleaning, youll need to charge it up for a full six hours.  I opened up a compartment on the Coleman HWOD, looking for a 120V proprietary charger, the one that wasn't there.  The only thing I found was a 12 V auto charger.  Bzzzzt!  I was some not happy because how could Coleman ask so much for this particular unit and leave out a simple 120V charger?  The other thing in that little compartment was a match extension, a useless one.

Jumping a bit ahead, that match extension had absolutely no flex to it.  We were unable to open it to put a match in it.  What you really need to buy are those long barbecue matches if you're going to light the pilot light.  The electronic start for the pilot can be iffy at best.  It only arcs, even if we hold it for longer than the directions state.  Now, unless you're very handy, youll need two people.  The pilot light control is on the front of the unit.  It has to be pressed down and held.  Try doing that, lighting a match, and inserting it into a small hole.  Why not put it on the top?

I did purchase the case for this clunker, but I must admit its quite a nice one.  Count on performing leak tests on your propane canister, cleaning the Coleman HWOD prior to use, getting drenched, aggravated, and spending extra money.  My husband claims its an awkward piece of equipment.  Im thinking this one is going to be one expensive doorstop for me because its simply not worth the effort to get that tiny bit of hot water.  Im not all that enamored with the Coleman HWOD and my husband cant stand it.
2092922
I finally got one of these and opted to go with the economical version because all my other incubators were more economical.  I'm pretty dissatisfied with item, although it did work to hatch the eggs.  The problems are as follows;  FIRST, I plugged this in ready get it standardized.  I put two other thermometers in it.  When I went back to check the temperature, one of my thermometers had burst as well as the one that came with this bator.  The only one that survived was my digital one read 127 degrees.  I'm thinking what the heck, at least my other bators were close to the temperature I needed to hatch the eggs.  It took us over a day tweaking this thing to get the temperature right.  SECOND, I had trouble with the humidity.  I live in an area with low humidity so I had to fill both wells and constantly add water.  THIRD, The instruction book is geared more to the automatic system, so it makes it harder for a new person to know how often to turn this etc.  The turning system worked great except for in the middle of the night.  We finally ended up purchasing the automatic cradle turner, which was REALLY beneficial.  FOURTH, to refill the water for the humidity you have to take the lid off and remove the eggs.  This is a pain and can affect the ultimate hatch.  I did add water at times, especially during the lockdown to a hole in the lid.  It indicated it was for water, but nothing in the instructions said anything about this.  There is one vent hole with this system.  FIFTH, you remove the dividers for lockdown and hatch (again no instructions), you have to be very careful with this in order not to break any eggs.  Also you will find the chicks very crowded in this apparatus, which is another thing I didn't care for.
151192
The instructions are poorly written, it's hard to determine if it actually works as desribed. I probably won't buy this one again.
844371
I have used the older (3 battery) model of the Icon and loved it. I was looking for a replacement, and since the older model is no longer available, thought this new one (4 battery) would be better. I was disappointed by a lot of features. The beam on the brightest setting is too diffused and doesn't let you see as far. You also can't tilt the light all the way down. I work with nocturnal small mammals, and need to both see far away and then up close when I am holding one in my hands. Where I didn't even have to think about this with the older model, this new one was very frustrating. Also, because they don't have a rechargeable battery pack I wasted a lot of batteries since I use it for hours during the night and couldn't just plug it in. I had a hard time opening and closing the battery compartment. I ended up returning it, and will look for an older model Icon elsewhere. Overall, I don't think the performance matches the price.
2759322
I am not happy with this product.  It is too different from the previous version and not easy to use at all.
666729
This one just didn't do it for me. It spends way too much time filming Cerina Vincent moping around after the loss of  her best friend, and it dwells on this too long in my opinion. Plus there are some really cheesy, boring songs that made me think I was watching a Lifetime drama instead of a monster movie.  Vincent also never seems very terrified or really even that scared or bothered when people do start to die. There is some decent low budget gore, but we don't get to see the monster nearly enough, and there really aren't any cool kill shots.
This one had mild language, no nudity and a few bloody moments...I can't see more than two stars for this one.
1954936
We're giving up on this one. Bought it one year ago.  The unit is very fiddly to program, and doesn't stop recording when the car is parked.  My wife tried to get it going many times and got tired of fighting it.  She is computer-savvy and outsmarts me with mobile phones, iPad and other portable devices.  She found the instructions booklet useless (written by a person with poor English skills).
I'm looking for a unit that doesn't require so much clicking and setting. The labels on the buttons are almost impossibly small.  Would not buy this one again.
3231540
meh. I got this for grinding an herb mixture (it comes in a little plastic bottle with a grinder that can be a pain). I would not recommend this one. Get one of the ones that runs automatically when inverted.

The problem is two-fold.
1. There's no "on" setting, so you have to push and hold (and the button's not that easy to keep depressed). Not a big deal except for...

2. The grind speed is SLOW. Like, a slow snail climbing up a metal slide on a cold day kinda slow. As it slowly churns out my freshly ground seasoning, I can't help but hear each rotation of the gears as moments of my life slipping away.
1951131
I had a prior version of this humidifier, bought several years ago, that, from the image, looks pretty much exactly the same, but there have been a number of design changes that make this newer version way worse.
1 This version doesn't have an on/off button, just the knob used to set volume/intensity (I have no idea what it's called in a humidifier!), so if you had it on just the right setting, you lose that every day when you go to refill it.
2 The power light has been moved from inside the tank to the front of the base, and is bright enough that it'll keep you awake all night until you cover it with electrical tape.
3 The top handle no longer sits as flat, so you can't balance the tank upside-down while you fill it.
4 There is no longer a handle on the bottom of the tank, making it even more difficult to hold it up while you fill it.
If these changes aren't reversed, or fixed some other way, I'll definitely buy a boring non-cute humidifier in the future to avoid these annoyances.

As far as actually working - it does put out plenty of water, and is fairly quiet (although I kind of feel like it gurgles more than my last one? that's a harder-to-quantify change than the others)
4811993
Not at all happy. The most absurd thing is the little slip of paper that actually brags about the sag in the cross-rod and claims it somehow makes the contraption more stable. The first tip-off this was Chinese junk was when I went to unscrew the wingnuts. You can tell the threads are sloppy as the nut won;t just spin with a flick, you have to un---------screw them a turn at a time. One upright has a binding tube that is sure to infuriate me over the years. This seems like a 30-dollar product priced at 60 bucks and called "heavy duty" to get suckers like me that actually trust Amazon product descriptions. Its not such junk that I will send it back, I am sure the 30-dollar units are even worse, and I can't find a decent one that actually uses nested tubes for the top bar or has a less Mickey Mouse connecting system between the rods. My solution will be buying a 2-inch piece of conduit at Home Depot, hammering the ends flat, and drilling holes for the cheesy wingnuts. Tomorrow I will write my pro-video pal and ask what backdrop support he uses. If it costs less than 150 bucks I will send this back after all. It just infuriates me that this is so junky.

OK, I just went to see if I can free up the binding upright and by twisting and running it up and down it seems a little better. I felt like I was using the golf ball washer in Caddyshack. Now I also notices that the black anodizing was scraped off in two places, so I have to wonder if this thing is a return that was sold as new. Maybe I put the scrapes there, but I will never know. I do like the little springs in the uprights that cushion the tubes when you collapse them. Oh well, live and learn, find a photo shop in Tampa and only buy things I can check out ahead of time.
4869866
This is my second one and I'm not pleased with this one either will not order from this company again.
1785948
The bad reviews made me hesitant on ordering this one.  But, since I had three others with no proble3ms, I decided to take a chance.  Bad decision.  Installation was difficult and I had to take it out and replace it with another unit.  Evidently there are some good ones and some bad ones.  This unit was slightly different from the other ones.
481740
Bought the CD Clip and this one. Not so happy with this one. Won't stick on anything but the windsheild and stay even with the provided stick on pad. Nice quality but don't plan on it sticking on a dash with any texture. JMHO
2565431
Not happy with this unit. The timing is all over the place. Maybe i need a new power/tach pigtail...sometimes its on the spot, others its hard to start(too advanced).
2667728
My old printer just died one day with an arcane error message on the console.  I could spend a ton of dough packaging and shipping it to a repair center, waiting six weeks, and then having them tell me it'll cost $200 to fix.  Or, I could just buy a new printer for $99.  Too bad the ink cartridges I had from the previous model don't fit in this one.  Canon and all other printer manufacturers are taking our wallets to the cleaners with that practice.  Aside from that peeve, one really annoying feature of this new model is that when a print job is sent to it the front output tray flops open loudly and sounds like it's going to snap off.  The older model had a classy hydraulic dampening effect wherein the door would gently open in slow motion.  This is just another step backward in the name of progress.  Go figure.  Also this one does a lot of whirring around internally, even when no job is sent to it.  It's probably just squirting toner to internal sponges so that we can order some more.  :-)
831297
I was replacing a much-loved Canon Powershot that finally gave up the ghost in December, and after looking around quite a bit, bought this one. I'm really not happy with it. Maybe if I had not had the little one before, I wouldn't have minded the SD 4500 so much.

--It makes noise.
--It's heavier.
--The battery dies quickly.
--It takes forever to focus and snap the picture-- everyone is standing there with frozen smiles. My old Canon was much, much faster, people always commented on how pleasant it was not to have to "pose"
--Canon's auto-rotate has the effect that when I upload photos to the web now, a lot of them are sideways. AND it seems you can't disable auto-rotate as you could on older cameras.
--The old camera had a view screen and a viewfinder. The SD 4500 forces you to use the screen as your viewfinder, but the screen is not as exact as the viewfinder was.
--Comparing old and new photos side by side, the SD 4500's images are fuzzier and just not as high quality.