I bought my sister one and Billie one for Christmas … they love them.

Yes, the coffee has to be ordered for the most part, but it has been working out to about 50 cents a cup. Timothy’s has been our supplier, ( I actually ordered the machines from them as well,) but there is also http://www.vanhoutte.com/ in Canada

You might also try Sears, we’ve found k cups there.

I bought both of them the filter so you can use regular coffee, but it doesn’t produce as good a product. The grind isn’t as fine as the stuff in a premade K cup.

Consensus from the coffee drinkers is that it is good coffee, and while more expensive, they don’t make 12 cups just to drink 3 and have half a tin of coffee go stale. The ability to have a variety of flavours is also a plus.

You can also use the coffee maker as a hot water machine, run it without a k-cup for tea or hot chocolate. I have never tried the hot chocolate k cups, but they are not well reviewed. As for Tea …it isn’t steeped so it doesn’t really cut it. The Green tea is passable, and the lemon drink is not bad. Regular teas though, stick to Tetley and a kettle.

I think you’ll like it… but you may find you drink more coffee simply because it’s fresh, fast ( about 60 seconds if the machine is warmed up,) and the flavour you feel like at the moment.