Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Worked for Only Four Months

I bought this for my husband as a Christmas (2009) gift. He had read all the great reviews here and put this espresso maker on his wishlist. For about 3 and half months it worked great and made excellent frothy espresso. For the last couple of weeks it started to get slower and slower and produced poor tasting espresso with no froth. He followed all the suggestions other reviewers had about cleaning and flushing the machine, even going to so far as to take it apart and clean everything thoroughly. It still made bad quality espresso and after a few weeks of fiddling with it, we finally gave up. Big bummer, a waste of money and time.