Country: 203.242.210.150, Asia, KR

City: 126.9741 , Republic of Korea

Sometimes I can be a bit naïve. I noticed that my K550 was not taking my old K-Cups so I called Keurig customer service to get answers. I was told that I cannot use these K-Cups so that the company could guarantee the "quality" of my coffee. I quizzed the customer service representative on what he meant by quality, then I tried again with his supervisor when I could not get a logical answer. Does quality mean better tasting coffee; Stronger or weaker coffee? This “2.0 issue” was quickly becoming an intriguing mystery. The supervisor read from the same "script". I suggested to him that the word "quality" is so generic that it has become almost meaningless. Why would the Company keep throwing out the word “quality” without an in-depth explanation? I apologized to the supervisor for not comprehending and tried again with a different question: What advantage does the new 2.0 Brewer have over the old one? The older machines I then discovered could take all the K-Cups. The older machines could accept the refillable cups so that I could use my favorite blends at a lower cost. The older machines are not limited by the 2.0 RFID/DRM” restrictions!

I bought this about 3.5 years ago for my husband and he's been using it ever since. It was the first vacuum pump he had ever tried with his wine bottles so we really didn't think much of it. It did what it was supposed to do and you can feel it working with each pump getting gradually harder as the air into bottle runs out. When it is completely vacuumed the pump makes a clicking noise to indicate that you are done. Easy-Peasy.