Hamilton Beach BrewStation? POS Coffee Maker!

On my recent trip to K-Mart (yeah, they’re still in business…) I decided that I needed to pick up a coffee maker. A bit of back story, just moved into my own place with no more roommates so I’m lacking a lot of basic neccesities which in this case, a coffee maker. Anyways, just being myself living at the house, I decide to pick up a coffee maker of the single big ass cup variety.

Browsing the coffee maker aisle I discover this gem, the Hamilton Beach BrewStation. This lovely little coffee maker had the attractive price of only $29.99! On the box, it shows someone filling up a single travel mug full of coffee. “Awesome” I thought to myself, “it comes with a travel mug!”. So I pick up the box just to make sure and read all the details. I figured if the coffee mug wasn’t included, it’d say so. It didn’t give any details of what’s included so I giddily threw it under my right arm and made my way to the register.

Once I exited the store, I decided that I will confirm that it does come with a coffee mug and ripped open the box when I arrived in my car. Of course, it did not. Oh well, not a big deal, I’ll pick one up at the grocery store which I did later that night.

I get home, plug it in, throw everything together and make my first pot of coffee. Success! It works! Awesome. I drink my coffee, piss away some time on the internet, and before bed I program it to make me some more coffee in the morning.

Next morning, I awaken to the wonderful smell of coffe! Awesome… or so I thought. When I shove my happy new little travel mug under the BrewStation, nothing comes out. Not even a drip… odd. I open it up and what do I find? DRY COFFEE GROUNDS. This can’t be right… Double check and it has water.

Can it be? Is my new coffee maker broken already? Screw it, I’ll goto work and dick with it when I get home. Later that night when I arrive home, I confirm my suspicions. It’s already broken! What the fuck, how is this possible? It’s a coffee maker, it does one thing. Make coffee! How does such a simple piece of machinery break so soon?

I read over the manual 30 times and everything I’m doing to make my delcious cup of non-exisitant coffee is correct except one part. IT DOESN’T FUCKING WORK!

BrewStation? More like POOSTATION. >:( I thought this could be love. But you deceived me you evil little coffee maker. Of course, I already threw away the receipt. Fail.