STM200N Teasmade with LCD Analogue Clock Light, Rapid Boil and Alarm, 600ml, 850W, White

Fitted teasmaid correctly . Arrived promptly and was very well packaged.

My original teasmade was bought from the UK and had sprung a leak. I was desperate to replace it - I use it daily to wake up to my hot pot of tea! Luckily I found it on Amazon, put in an order and it arrived promptly to Australia. (You do have to change the UK plug to an Australian plug to use) All in one piece including ceramic teapot and it works beautifully. Thank goodness!

Arrived with broken piece around rim. Thought I could live that, it's from England and these are difficult to get over here, guess I'll deal with it. Went to make tea, cracked from the top of the handle to the bottom, got hot water all over. Went to see if I could return it, with tax, paid about $32. Amazon says I have to pay shipping up front and they estimate my return will be $31. Apparently, this is just one of those hard lessons.

Spoilt for many by ergonomic issues. Scored 0 to 5, serious to noteworthy. 1) The manual. eg No mention of how to change lamp bulb. No mention of importance of setting tea pot handle forwards as shown on cover picture. Spout only fits over small angle. null pointe. 2) The lamp. Still using 15 w pygmy bulb. On/Off switch needs hard push. Using one hand can push whole caboodle off table onto floor. null pointe. 3) Hinge to kettle cover seems flimsy. quatre pointe. 4) Alarm . Bleeper so boxed in you will not hear it unless awake. flashing blue light might attract attention. Bleeper auto stops after three minutes. null pointe f5) Tea pot. my sample the pot is a tight fit over the lip in the unit and needs a push to get it to sit firmly on its base. cinq pointe. 6) Tea pot lid. With a 30mm hole in it it is all but redundant. the lugs on the lid look fragile. The lid can be a little fiddly to fit and even more trouble to remove.. trois pointe. 7) Blue light. Far too bright at night. une pointe. 8) The Clock. Viewing angles badly set. Can only read time if eye level is above clock centre line. trois pointe. 9) The Clock. Restarts automatically from 12 when power is restored. Alarm setting lost. Why is it not radio controlled. trois pointe. 10) Time they had a voice operated version. Will Littlewoods (swan) take note of reviews? Not a snow flake in hells chance. I have owned several Swan Teasemades. The best died short of five years of daily use. Will this one do better? On taking the bottom cover off for a visual inspection this is what was seen. Loose wiring, the kettle separated from the clock and its back pack by a heat shield. The clock and its back pack are a single sub assembly with the push button switches and some logic and clock software. This assembly is clearly not intended to be replaceable. The labour cost would be prohibitive anyway. It essentially follows that the durability of this device depends heavily on the quality of this sub assembly.. The kettle has good fault protection. Some wires pass over a sharp edge on the heat shield. The mains cord is sleaved inside the unit but can get close to the kettle. But there is no evidence of any likely safety hazard. Any fault with the wiring external to the clock sub unit is repairable.. In summary the wiring is amateurish and I would not have passed it for production. Will this device be more durable? I think it has a good chance but be aware that any sub unit failure renders the device a write off.

Everything is just slightly awful about this product. They couldn't have made it any cheaper than it already is. They even duplicated the two knobs on the top, and put a sticker over the one that is meant for the brightness. The little pot came with a slightly broken lid that must've broken long before transport. The pot also is designed so terribly that some tea is always leaking down along the pot instead of ending inside my mug. When it for some reason decides a few hours after setting it that the button for automatic tea wasn't pressed good enough(?) it decides to just do nothing - not even ring the alarm, even if that one is set additionally as well; so, don't trust it as an alarm clock. So it's not a good alarm clock. It also isn't really a good tea maker. It is merely a trash novelty.