Monday, June 17, 2013

The Curse of the Keurig Vue V500, or SNAFU ?

I too quickly bought the Keurig Vue V500, only to discover it does not use k-cups, and there is no refillable filter for it.  I like my coffee fresh ground.
 
Keurig is pretty headstrong, obsoleting their own k-cup products like this, and providing no refillable pack as a factory available accessory, like they do for the k-cup.  They have 2 new, mutually incompatible lines, now!  It seems like ink jet cartridges all over again, cheap printers and expensive ink, with firmware to fight you on refilled cartridges! 

Major refill pod vendor Solofill is a bit goofy, making a Vue filter the does not fit the v500.

Wait, now they say that their existing filter fits all vue.  What a snafu.