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Woman wanted Starbucks discs, settles for $250
CBS/AP ^ | October 30, 2014

Posted on 10/31/2014 10:17:28 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

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I'm delighted that people like the Keurig brewers. I use the one at our Saturday night fellowship. It's OK...

I am a happy, daily brewer of 40+ years with...

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21 posted on 11/01/2014 10:03:15 AM PDT by Prov1322 (Enjoy my wife's incredible artwork at www.watercolorARTwork.com! (This space no longer for rent))
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Posted too quickly. Forgot this...

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22 posted on 11/01/2014 10:09:03 AM PDT by Prov1322 (Enjoy my wife's incredible artwork at www.watercolorARTwork.com! (This space no longer for rent))
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To: Jonty30; ConservativeStatement

After Christmas last year I purchased a Keurig machine at Target as I had a $50 gift card to put toward the purchase and I like it. It works well for me. I like the coffee and I found that it actually saves me money as during the week; only drinking one or two cups before I leave for work, or sometimes liking one cup in the evening when I get home, even making a “small” pot in my Kitchen Aid coffee machine, I ended up throwing a lot out and I find it’s hard to make a pot of coffee for only 1 or 2 cups without making it too weak or too strong, although I do use my regular coffee maker on weekends.

The only problem was I bought a Keurig Vue. I bought that model because it makes lattes (with the Vue frother cups) and also tea and iced coffee allows you to choose from regular to strong and a 4 oz cup all the way up to a 12 oz travel mug. But the Vue doesn’t use the popular and readily available K-Cups. When I first bought the Vue, Target and other stores, including the grocery store stocked at least a few varieties of the Vue cups, but now the only place I can find them, except on line at Amazon, is at Bed Bath & Beyond.

I just went to the Keurig website and they don’t even list the Vue model anymore and I understand the Vue model has been discontinued, although they still sell the Vue cups.

But when I bought it, I also bought a reusable fill cup that lets me use any ground coffee:

http://www.amazon.com/Solofill-Refillable-Filter-Keurig-Brewers/dp/B00B0ZMNOU/?tag=viglink21063-20

Although that won’t make the lattes. : (

Oh well. I guess I could always sue somebody (just like the folks who bought lots of 8-track cassettes, Betamax tapes and laser disks and stocked up on a lifetime supply of 5¼-inch or 3½-inch floppy disks did).


23 posted on 11/01/2014 1:45:38 PM PDT by MD Expat in PA
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I assume a Tassimo coffee maker doesn’t come with a re-usable pod like the Kuerig machines?

For $250, she can buy a Kuerig and a whole bunch of Starbucks K-cups, and now she has both machines in case Starbucks ever decides to change back!

That, of course, is assuming the settlement recouped whatever she spent on legal costs. Idiot.


24 posted on 11/01/2014 2:51:50 PM PDT by RansomOttawa (tm)
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Personally, I don’t get the attraction of these Tassimo or Keurig machines.

Convenience. You can get a wide variety of coffees, teas, hot chocolates, etc. in a little self-contained pod: no having to measure or grind your beans, get the water to just the right temperature, or cleaning up afterward, and you end up with a pretty respectable cup of coffee. Yes, the cost per cup is greater than brewing your own. That's the tradeoff for convenience.

My last workplace had a Keurig machine and a coffee pool. Rather than pay into the pool, for the most part I just used it to make enough hot water for my French press and coffee (freshly ground and brought from home). I don't mind coffee-pod systems—I think they make decent coffee—but I probably wouldn't buy one for myself. As someone who loves cooking, I feel they take away all the fun of making coffee in addition to drinking it. (And if I actually had the money for a coffee machine, I'd probably spend it on a decent espresso maker instead.)

25 posted on 11/01/2014 3:05:45 PM PDT by RansomOttawa (tm)
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"'I'll take it!'? They offered $250.00 and....and you said you'd take it? I wanted to see what came after the 'and'! This is public humiliation!"


26 posted on 11/01/2014 3:12:48 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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