Dimitri wrote:

> Once I purchased a BRUN from Costco - about a year later the carafe broke - the
> coffee maker was about $50.00 the replacement carafe was $35.00 and the "special
> lid" was another $7.00.
>

When my the pot from my old Braun broke it was about the same price to be the cheap
Moulinex ( without all the bells and whistle that can go wrong ) as it was to replace
the carafe. The I figured it, I bought a new carafe and got a coffee maker thrown in.
:-)