Would you buy a coffee maker off the bay with this description:
Bonavita BV1800 8-Cup Coffee Maker with Glass Carafe
This item is USED in POOR physical condition with ALOT of marks/scratches/signs of wear.
This seller had several of these makers up for bid with the "Make an Offer" option. They weren't asking that much for them, but I made an offer with a 20% discount. I figured what the heck, they have a 14 day return policy so I could return it if it was really in poor condition. Well the seller accepted my offer and two days later the UPS guy dropped it off at my house.
I guess this seller is a firm believer in, "Under promise, over deliver". Not only was this machine not in poor condition, it looked brand new. So I ended up with a new coffee maker with a 50% + discount. Sweet....
My question concerns the grounds and the brew basket. My initial brew used 74 grams of coffee, two days post roast. When the water started flowing, the bloom rose high enough to make contact with the shower head. My thoughts are, maybe I'm using a little too much coffee, although it tasted great. Or do a manual pre-infusion before placing the carafe in the machine. Then the other question is. The shower head basically bore a cavity into the grounds so I had this hole in the center all the way to the bottom. I was wondering if jiggling the crarafe/brew basket a couple of times during the brew cycle would be any benefit.
Granted I'm probably over thinking this. My coffee tasted great so leave everything alone, but ... I'm not built that way. What do you think?