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3 sourced reports, with what to check before you buy. Each one links to the page it was reported on.
Came from the Italian consumer-complaint board Altroconsumo (Vertuo Pop, subscription machine).
What to check. A Vertuo Pop reported to fail three times within a year, returning from service still leaking and not dispensing coffee. The owner's cost is repeated service trips and wasted coffee, with no working machine in between.
Reported on: altroconsumo.it
Came from the Portuguese consumer-complaint board Deco Proteste (Vertuo, under warranty).
What to check. The machine starts a brew then aborts with a blinking red button, wasting a capsule each time; the owner reports the fault persists after a service visit and an online reset. Cost is wasted capsules plus service time with no resolution.
Reported on: deco.proteste.pt
Came from the Dutch Repair Café repair forum (Vertuo Next, DeLonghi/other OEM).
What to check. A repair volunteer identifies a defective pump in a Vertuo Next and gets it running again. This shows the pump is a replaceable/repairable part, though the repair requires disassembly skill.
Reported on: repaircafe-forum.org
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These reports come from the pages linked under each item: owner forums, repair guides and workshops. They are not a diagnosis of any one unit, and a careful check of the one you are buying still applies.
Text from the Kriko Espresso & coffee machines catalog, version 0.1.1, under the CC-BY-SA-4.0 license.
