I don't have one, but I have good friends that do. They love it. I know, at $229 it seems like a lot for a blender. I have a perfectly good blender, but I have tried to make some of the smoothies my friends make in theirs, but I can never get that real "smoothie" consistency in mine. It is so much more powerful than a "regular" blender and can run for longer periods of time. Also, it has a much larger capacity. I would never spend $229 for one, but if I found one for $30 I'd grab it as quick as I could.

That is good to know. I looked at reviews at the Healthmaster site, which are glowing but all sound like they are written by the same person. Amazon's reviews are all horrible, that a part rusts within a couple of weeks & runs into the food/drink, the motor burns out shortly after purchasing it-the same type of complaints. The motor is supposed to have a lifetime warranty, but according to those reviews, the company response is not good. I really have a hard time believing the reviews, at $200 it should be better than that! I'm glad to know that your friends are having no problems with their machine. Mine won't get a huge workout, but several times I have made something thinking a blender would work better than my food processor, but no more than I would use it, hesitate to spend the money for a good blender. I make smoothies occasionally, & had thought about a juicer. When I saw this I was really excited to get it at that price, but the reviews were bothering me. I know $30 isn't a lot, but I don't want to even waste $30 on a piece of junk :)

I have one because my girlfriend gave it to me. It was free and I have used it to make smoothies. It does a good job with the smoothies but is a little bit of a pain to assemble and lock every time you use it. Because it is large and heavy I also find that somewhat inconvenient to use but otherwise it worked fine for me!

Thanks ghoghunter! It is really big, isn't it? I think I'll keep it, probably more of blender than I really need. I hate paying almost that much for a well used one though when I can have a new one. Seems to work ok, I'll try to give it a workout the next few days.