Holy cow.
$8.95 unknown / unremembered Chinese brand, Wal-Mart. Block and Dicker?
Been using it about four years. Ish.
Two faults:
Quickly filling reservoir forces some water up the tubing and out the drip spout over the basket.
Spout on carafe poorly designed. Fluids, hot, cold, coffee or water, "stick" to the spout and run back down the side of the carafe if you don't do it juuuust right.
Makes coffee pretty good, although at this altitude, it's hard to make lousy coffee anyhow. 200°ish F, and it cools off a bit shooting up the tubes.
I drink lots and lots of coffee, and frankly, getting too persnickety about it is not worth my time. Don't get me wrong, I've had and can appreciate Ferrari coffee, but Ford will do fine for commuting.
I made arrangements for the distributor to grind up the coffee for me and put it in a specially designed tightly sealed transportation and storage container. Doesn't cost me much. Yeah, I know, flagrant cheapskate virtue signaling.
Used to use Maxwell house Master Blend, went to Maxwell House House Blend.
(Ah, spellcheck, same word twice in one sentence. Up yours.
"Spellcheck is my worst enema.")
Terry