Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Ok, so most of the reviews I read earlier in the year when I obtained this product and was looking into the costs of having to refill it scared the crap out of me. People left and right screaming "it's a trappppp!!!!!". So let me clear the air. This is a little like buying propane for your outdoor grill. The first time you purchase the propane, you're also paying for the container, but once you have one, the cost goes drastically down. The same is true of these sodastream cylinders. sure, that's a lot of dough for co2, but the cost is so that you have a spare cylinder. How it works is that you just take the empty cylinder to a dealer and they give you a new one with co2 and you leave your old one with them, which then gets refilled. I drink nothing but seltzer water. If I don't have seltzer water, coffee, wine, beer, or shoprite brand ginger ale, I don't drink. If I was locked in a house with a water tap and nothing else I would die of dehydration. so the initial cost of the machine and everything was 100. It came with a cylinder. The cylinder provided me, an admitted seltzaholic, with a month's worth of seltzer. before when I didn't have this I would purchase about 12 bottles of seltzer a week. usually at about 60 cents per bottle. so let's say about 6 bucks a week. so 24 in a month. one refill of this cost me 16 bucks. 8 dollar difference. no big deal, right? factor in not having to lug around a 12 pack of huge bottles, worrying about not finishing a bottle before the fizz ran out, having to buy it every week, the insane convenience of having it whenever I want it. it all rounds out. bottom line: if you use a lot of seltzer, buy one more of these, and you'll pay 16 dollars per cylinder per refill. don't listen to the rest of these people. this thing is so insanely convenient.