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Dynamo Deluxe turns water into soda in seconds! No more lugging or storing cases of bottles and cans from the store, and no more empties to recycle. Dynamo Deluxe offers the economy of a 130L carbonator coupled with premium styling in one highly durable appliance. The Dynamo has an easy-to-use, family-friendly design, a wide base for extra stability and can accommodate both 60L and 130L sized carbonators.
- Value-sized reusable carbonator to fizz up to 130L of soda
- Dynamo Deluxe soda maker, black with nickel accents
- 3 carbonating bottles
- 12-flavor sodamix Taste Sampler pack
This Seltzer Bottles & Chargers give to us some advantages, like this :
1. Love my Sodastream... with a word of warning and solution
I love my Sodastream machine the convenience and variety of flavors are worth the purchase price... but you cannot save money using these machines unless you make your own syrups and/or use alternative ways to supply CO2.
First the CO2. The Sodastream 130-Liter Carbonator that is supposed to do 130 liters will actually only do around 75, exchanges/refill is $30 each giving you about $0.43 in CO2 cost for each liter made. Using the cheapest Sodastream syrup you are looking at an additional $0.42 a liter and $1.67 per liter for the cane sugar syrup. This gives you a $0.85 cost per liter ($1.70 per 2 liter) using the cheapest Sodastream syrup and $2.09 per liter ($4.18 per 2 liter) for their cane sugar syrup. These per liter prices are much higher than what you can find soda on sale for in 2 liter bottles. You cannot save money doing this.
The good news is by making your own syrups using snow cone concentrate bought bulk online or unsweetened kool-aid, pure...
2. Costco model- way overpriced here
I purchased this Sodastream at Costco. According to Sodastream's website this model is only available at Costco. I normally don't comment on Amazon pricing but the markup is so high here it needs a comment. So you can save yourself some money by purchasing it directly at Costco. Black Friday price was $79.99 and everyday Costco price is $99.99. This comes with three carbonation bottles. Two 1L and one 1/2 liter bottles and 12 sample drink mixes. It also includes the big 130L C02 cartridge which means it will carbonate many more bottles than those dinky 30L and 60L CO2 cartridges. You can find locations to exchange the big 130L bottles on the Sodastream site. The Staples chain is exchanging the big 130L cartridges. Staples is my planned exchange store and it's close to my home. So all my advance research paid off. The instructions were easy to follow and within five minutes out of the box I was up and carbonating my first water bottle. I'm not a big fan of colas but now that Sodastream...
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The truth that consumers need to fully understand, GET EDUCATED - CO2 has 1,500% markup, not economical
My hope would be that SodaStream would have some interest in the public good and the environment by creating a win-win situation that reduces waste. In reality, this suite of products represents an epic deception of consumers.
While the general idea of this product is solid, consumers should understand that they are grossly overpaying for SodaStream carbon dioxide refills. In fact, the prices charged are sixteen times (16x) wholesale costs or many, many times more expensive than the prices a restaurant would pay. In Europe, frugal consumers are aware of such markups and actually purchase their own restaurant-sized CO2 refills. In the US, we aren't so frugal.
Other than the outrageous costs for the CO2 refills, there are other issues with the SodaStream Fountain Jet. One is the construction quality is quite low with very thin molded plastic and little weight. Additionally, the taste of generic soda flavors do not match that of the brand name products...
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