Either terrible design, or just defective
598539
I loved this coffee maker the first couple of times I made coffee with it. It kept my coffee hot and fresh, and it's slim design did not take up a lot of room on my counter. Unfortunately, there were too many things wrong with it to keep it. The hot coffee caused the lid to expand (or something like that) to the point that I was not able to unscrew it to pour myself (and my guests!) a cup of coffee. I had to wait several hours for it to cool off to take off the lid. Prior to that, it was so difficult to unscrew the top to pour the coffee out, that I had to use a towel to get a better grip and make sure not to tighten it too hard in the first place. I'm not sure why they designed the lid that way. It has ridges all around it that make it very painful to try to unscrew it with my bare hand. My husband had the same problem. The thing that made the final decision to send it back was the awful leaking that occurred from the pot. After we would pour a cup of coffee, I would have to place the pot in my sink because so much would pour out of the side where the handle was placed. I do not know how this product got so many great reviews, because I had a terrible and very frustrating experience with it.
3489395
Great customer service, but bad product design
2334020
It just didn't work.  It can't be that difficult to use so I assume it's defective.  Returning.
4371629
Not for pros. Metal connectors/plastic sleeve below that. Guess which broke almost immediately?
3045594
This is my third LM. The first one I owned was a 'mega' from years ago, that lasted, well, years. It suddenly stopped working so I bought a similar LM, though smaller. This 2nd one worked just as well as the first but also, suddenly stopped working. So I bought this, what I believed at the time, new and improved design (it's called ELITE, right?) This thing refuses to work as it should. As previous reviewer has stated, it doesn't lift the lid very well, the containers are hard to place correctly (I keep ending up with large piles of litter UNDERNEATH) and where the previous plastic tined models would 'scoop and LIFT' waste, this one just pushes, causing litter to pile up in front of waste and causing unit to stop, reverse and try again (which never works.) My cat tends to bury her waste at bottom of tray and this design doesn't help at all. I have to manually scoop (and don't use the included scoop, they're pretty useless: too small and more of a litter shovel than litter strainer) the waste. Will I buy another LM? Probably, but not of this design if I can help it.)
3240266
Just bought 2 of these and they are both defective.  No one in the house can get the the screw light to tighten with the battery in.  Neither could the people I returned them to at Lowes.  Yikes.  Back to the drawing board for these.  (Quality team let the ball drop on these...)
2768636
The top does not fit securely onto the bottom of this. There is always a space between the two, no matter how many times I try to adjust the top.  This has caused mold to grow in the butter.  I don't know if my product is faulty or the design of this is just poor.  Either way, I cannot use it and am disappointed.
1076791
Not sure if I received a bad unit, or if this thing was poorly engineered. The spring didn't even reach the plastic plate to let the air in...terrible.
749658
I couldn't get it to work even with fresh batteries. It would pair with my phone and then cut off after a few minutes. The battery door is also on the wrong side (facing the wheel). To me these two issues are indicative of poor engineering and/or manufacture. Go pay a few more dollars and save yourself some time.
1900955
One of the two I bought is defective.
The design is lacking. Is promising, but not greatly functional.
3634787
did not work as expected i don't know if mine was defective or if it was just not a good product all together
2815966
BAD DESIGN!  I bought it only 6 months ago right at the end of the pool season and it only worked for about a month.  Initially I was hopeful, but after I'd been outside messing with it on and off, hope left with great expedience.  And possibly a few F-words were said and things were thrown.

I'm an engineer, so when something doesn't work, I try to figure out what's wrong with it, and fix it.  Clearly, that didn't happen.  The first issue is too much sensitivity to becoming clogged with debris.  Unfortunately for me, I have leaves in my pool, in addition to dirt.  Problems started when leaves became clogged in one of the pipes.  These pipes are angled in such a way that they are very difficult to clean without a special tool and don't simply rinse out.  Next, it just completely quit moving.  I thought it was possibly not getting enough suction, so I cleaned out everything in the whole pump system, including the cartridge filters, needlessly.  The baffle inside isn't connected to anything and is meant to alternate positions freely with the water flow.  Well, now more pieces of leaves were stuck in that section.  I ended up taking it apart to clean that part out properly, but there are areas inside of the tube in which you have no access.  My only hypothesis is that whatever debris was stuck slightly affected the water flow.  If the flow between the two tubes isn't exactly equal, the thing won't move properly.

Basically I realized that I'm figuring out design flaws, which is what I do for a living.  Now I'm working, not enjoying my weekend.  And I see one of the weights, which is housed inside the plastic bowed piece on the back, had been dragging when it was working and had been essentially worn half way down as though it.  Meaning, the bottom of my plaster pool sanded it's way half way through a solid metal weight.  So I slammed it into the ground to see how many pieces it would fly into.  This actually yielded the only good result, because it did not, in fact, fly into a million pieces.  Yes, I am an engineer, but a 6'7" one that weighs 250 lbs.  If I want something to fly into a million pieces, it usually does.  Good Job there.  I'd probably do the same as the product quality manager that oversees this design whilst saying, "TRY AGAIN!"  Whoever laughed when it didn't break is the one that gets the lead job of fixing it.
4038999
When i saw these on the website i was excited.  I used to have one and it worked really well.  But I knew the minute i opened the package that one of them was not going to work.  The lever position differed greatly between the two stoppers.  So i have a stopper that works and one that is worthless.  i tried forcing the lever up but it won't budge.  it's obviously defective but quality control should have caught this obvious defect.
1271022
Mine was defective. Bike leaned to the left, thought I was doing something wrong so I put my wife's on it and hers was the same.  Took the bike off and put a level on the skewer and was way off.  Sent it back, seemed solid otherwise, but I won't know, will be replacing with something else.
1728365
defective out of the box. returned and rebought locally.
2972310
No matter what setting I put this on, this toaster doesn't work. I have to start a toasting cycle 4 times just to get the bread barely brown. Each time, I have to rotate the bread in a different direction, because only one side of the burners work (I don't have the setting on bagel). Not sure if its bad design or got knocked around in shipping. Already recycled the box and packing, so am stuck with it.
3410940
Maybe defective, maybe designed to be useless, but it didn't cut tissue paper, copy paper, card stock, light nylon fabric, or craft fur... mysteriously ineligible for return so I just got a refund.