Re: So dissappointed. :( Vitamix 748 - RESOLUTION

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Hi everyone,

I just wanted to follow up after this whole ordeal.

I guess I was pretty hormonal or something that day because wow, crying over a

blender? LOL.

I contacted the seller on Ebay and she was very nice. I hadn't even noticed

that she had a return policy but even if she hadn't I think she would have taken

it back. Regardless, I packed it up and shipped it back to Oregon. That's

going to be a well traveled blender! It's going to cost me $60 for the mistake,

since it cost $30 to ship it each way, but life works that way sometimes. At

least I'll get the bulk of the money back and not have to worry about trying to

sell it.

I ordered a refurbished 5200 from Lee Ann so now I'm just in wait mode again

until it shows up. I am so not a patient person so this whole process is really

putting me to the test! While I'm waiting, again, I'm reading as much as I can

and watching videos and all sorts of stuff.

I lost 7.5 pounds last week without the Vitamix so that's a good start, but I'm

really looking forward to getting it so I can fill in my diet with some greens

which I'm getting in salads now, but I'd prefer to drink.

I'm also currently obsessed with Wild Edibles. We have 20 acres here and we

have a huge patch of chickweed, and of course dandelions and violets and

probably tons of other things that I just can't identify yet. I'm totally

psyched about the unending possibilities for ingredients in my green smoothies

(my main purpose for the vitamix).

Anyway, that's all off-topic really. Just wanted to thank everyone for their

responses and understanding about my blender obsession.

Sue

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> > > > So, after waiting a week and a half for my Ebay Vitamix 748 (VM0100) to

ship to Ohio from the west coast, it finally showed up today.

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> > > > I got home from work, unpacked it, washed up the container and tamper

and set about putting an apple (cut into quarters), about 7 strawberries, a half

a frozen banana, 1 cup spinach and 2 cups crushed ice into it anticipating the

awesome power I've seen all over the internet.

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> > > > Turned it on. It blended what was immediately around the blade and that

was all. Bring in the tamper. Tamp, tamp, tamp. Nothing. Blade spinning and

spinning (on high by this time) and nothing was getting sucked down into the

blade. Even what was getting tamped into the blade seemed to be doing nothing.

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> > > > My know it all husband who knows nothing about what I'm expecting from

this machine is advising me to only put in one thing at a time, and to start

with some water. I kept trying to explain that I can do that with my $50

blender. I expect better from a THREE HUNDRED dollar blender. Honestly, I got

kinda pissed and cried.

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> > > > I put everything away, dumped the ingredients in a bowl and came back

when I calmed down. By then the ice had melted some and I tried again, this time

only putting about a half cup of ingredients in at a time. This time it did

actually blend, but I could see from looking into the container that it still

wasn't really pulling all the stuff from the top down into the blades. I tasted

the smoothie and it's grainy, hardly what I would consider adequate from a $300

blender that can supposedly grind grains into flour, seeds, nuts, etc.

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> > > > So, did I get ripped off on Ebay? Am I expecting more than this thing is

really capable of? Are all the videos on the web doctored? Is this older model

just not cut out to do what the newer models claim to do? I really, really would

love to know the answer because I'm so disappointed. I was counting on this to

help me lose a much needed 100 pounds and now not only do I not have that, I'm

out $300 and my husband thinks I'm an idiot.

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