Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I bought this fridge as a replacement for a similar one I bought 3 years ago that wore out. It's a simple little fridge without much to it, as you would expect. I slid the switch to "cool" without looking at the back plate of the device too much; the red LED went on. OK, fine. I put a couple of cans of Coke Zero in to test it out, and went home from the office. The next day I sat down at my desk, started working, and glanced over at the table with the fridge maybe half an hour later. There were brown puddles on the table and dried brown splotches on my computer printer and other items on the table. Surprised, I went over to look, and realized the liquid came from the fridge. I opened the door, and to my surprise found two empty cans of Coke Zero, the lids of each can blown partly off. The fridge itself was extremely hot inside. I immediately unplugged it, and then inspected the back plate of the fridge, thinking I must have wrongly slid the switch in back to "heat" rather than "cool." Take a look at the photo. I was pretty mad at first about this fridge blowing up two cans of soda and making a mess in my office. But you can't stay mad when faced with chabuduo this hilarious! I had indeed slid the switch to "cool." However, as you can see in the photo, all the words on the back are printed mirror-image. Some manufacturing person (I won't dignify that person with the term "technician" or "assembler," as those terms are associated with some level of skill) clearly flipped the stencil used for printing those words, and no one at the factory was familiar enough with the Latin alphabet to realize that. Then, somehow the "heat" setting became associated with cooling, and vice versa. No one noticed this during manufacturing or during QC. Silly me; QC is not part of the chabuduo experience! So after extensive cleaning - which still isn't done, as my box of Christmas decorations for the office got soaked with Coke Zero - I put the switch on "heat" (I can't type the mirror image characters in here) and waited for half an hour to see what would happen. Sure enough, this little thing cooled off. I put 1 can in and came back the next day. It was really cold, so at least it works when you figure out the workaround. Well, it's worked for a few days; I don't hold out hope that it will last long. I suspect the innards are made of shredded cardboard and inadequately-gauged wire. If you do choose to spend your money on this shoddily-fabricated abomination of a product, test it empty first, lest your office, car, or home be drenched with exploding cans of liquid. Better yet, buy a different fridge from a different vendor.