Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: great product if you're careful

This is actually a very decent, acceptable and useful carafe-based coffee maker. It's true, due to the minimization of moving parts, it has no valve and you can find yourself in trouble if you take the receptacle out while the thing is brewing. Patience.We've only experienced the water-on-the-counter problem once... and it is very easy to protect against. You just have to make sure that the filter basket is securely positioned in it's holder. If it is not, it is very easy for the outlet hole to get blocked and for the water in the filter to overflow.However, once you get past these wrinkles... this is a damn fine, cheap carafe-based coffee maker. With a little attention to detail, you can have great coffee in either one cup, two cups or a whole pot. I really think this coffee maker is worthy of four stars... it is very simple, which is why other reviewers with particularly high standards, give it such a low rating.