See box that looks like it’s 3/4 ripped in half from stacking damage:
“Looks good to me, send it off.”
Ended up ordering it from Phillips for cheaper on sale, turns out it’s not too hard to avoid Amazon altogether and a bonus for the company’s reputation being important to the ones picking/packaging the product. Hard to blame the Amazon worker though, they don’t get paid enough to care.
Maybe I’m snobbish, but instant vs drip vs French press vs americano all taste different and Americano is so much better it was this or a bialetti moka express. My wife said she’d never use the stove top one and I’ve made over 10,000 espresso shots so far, so I’d wager I would have eventually caved in and bought a super automatic anyways. It may have paid for itself in electricity tbh.
I’ve used a DeLonghi espresso machine ($100) for close to 20 years now. My first one lasted 15 years.
It’s not perfect, but just about the best bang-for-buck on the market.