(Requested High Quality Review) It has been said that you get what you pay for and while there are many opportunities where this saying is true I have to say that with the Black & Decker DCM2500B SmartBrew Coffeemaker that is not the case. In fact you get so much more than what you pay for.

I have had several high end coffee pots that I have spent well over 100 good old American dollars on only for them to break down within a short period of time and need repairs or they simply were so fancy that you needed a degree is astrophysics to read the manual and figure out how to operate them.

I am extremely pleased to say that this is not the case with your product. It is easy to operate and produces just as good a cup of coffee as those high end units. After being tired of throwing good money after bad, I decided to save some money and purchase an affordable coffee maker, after all it is just coffee, not rocket science.

When I went shopping for an inexpensive coffee maker I did not just want something that was cheap. I wanted to have a machine that would at least provide me with what I had been getting from the pricier products. I was convinced that there had to be a product on the market that was inexpensive and yet was durable and high quality.

I tend to be a reader of reviews and consumer reports (which is partly why I am writing this review) I believe that what someone else thought about a product is the best way to judge a product. I started looking through the product reviews on several inexpensive models and I was finding that the Black and Decker products were generally receiving the best customer reviews of the many different products on the market.

I also came across a consumer report in a major publication that said that out of the different products they had rated, the Black and Decker DCM2500 had ranked the highest on all aspects of their tests. Between the customer reviews and the product testing report I was sold, but still a little reluctant. I wanted to believe that there could be an economical product that could provide superior coffee to those high end machines, but I was afraid that I might be disappointed.

Well let me tell you there is no disappointment with this product. Not only does it produce a high quality cup of coffee, but it is compact and easy to fill. I have used inexpensive products in the past that were a virtual crap shoot when it came to whether the water would end up in the coffee pot or all over the counter and the floor. This machine makes things simple and has never left me grabbing for a towel, unless of course I got sloppy. Another thing that I really appreciate about this machine is how easy it is to program.

This coffee maker easily shows up the much more expensive models and is just as durable. It is much easier to program than many of the other machines I have used and I can't get it to overflow if I try. You would be well advised to save your money and buy this very affordable coffee maker. I am certain that you have other things you could sue that money on.