Kalamera Mini Fridge Beverage and Wine Cooler Built-in or Freestanding - 118 Cans & 16 Bottles Capacity Wine Refrigerator CoolerThe Forest Stewardship Council

I searched around for a while and held off buying an under counter fridge from the other brands because the reviews were all over the place, and I'm glad I did. This does a good job cooling my beer and looks great doing it. It's essentially silent when it's running, I only notice the internal fan when the door is opened and the compressor isn't noticeable even when it's not stuck between cabinets. The silence is nice as it sits just behind me in my theater room wet bar. The led temperature display is nice to have and the internal light makes it look nice in the dark. The pullout shelves help with beer selection when it's time for another. The shelves are spaced close enough together that there's little wasted space and fits plenty of cans and bottles laying down. Shelves are easy enough to move if you need more space for something like wine if you feel the need to choke some down.The only con I have is that to reverse the door requires that you flip the door. This wouldn't be a problem except that it turns the kalamera branding on the door glass upside down. I can't take a star off for this visual problem but it's still not great to look at.The price is in the ballpark of the other brands but this one doesn't have the consistently bad reviews. Personally, I don't know why it takes $300 to go from your standard small fridge, add a fan and some grating to make it an under counter unit.The unit arrived on a small wooden pallet, which many or may not have made stops in war zones. The pallet arrived broken and the box pretty beat up. Fortunately the packing was good enough that the only damage was a crushed corner on the back of the unit. Since that's only insulation and not mechanical, everything worked fine. The unit sits under a counter so the back corner isn't visible. No stars off for poor shipping since that's a shipper problem.

We've had the fridge on for about 3 weeks. It arrived on January 20th, 2017 and its now February 13th, 2017.UPDATE: It’s been almost a year and our fridge is still working great.Pros: the listed dimensions are correct so it fit into our very narrow space of 15", it is holding the 38 degrees very well, the blue LED internal light is cool, it is quiet (I don't notice it running), it arrived in good condition, it is pretty chrome. We followed the directions to wait several hours (the directions we saw said wait 24 hours before plugging it in, but some HVAC experts in online comments said a few hours is plenty. We waited 7 hours before we plugged it in). Everything is working great. We would recommend this fridge to others and we works buy it again. If we have any problems, I'll update this review.CONS: These are small things that wouldn't prevent me from buying it again. The LED light (the only light in the fridge) at the top can get blocked if you put things on the top shelf. So, the pretty LED light gets greatly dimmed. I just try to avoid blocking it, but that means I get to use less space. The LED light has to be turned on and off manually. It might be nice to be able to turn it off so it stays off normally and only turns on when you open the door. But, it's not a big deal. I wish the fridge would go lower than 38 degrees for super cold beer. But, I haven't seen any mini fridges go lower than 38 degrees.

I was skeptical because some people received DOA units but I will say this unit operates perfectly. I like the temperature range. It cools the beverages to a very nice temperature. The lighting is good. It’s not too loud all in all I believe it’s well-made and it matches our other stainless steel appliances perfectly.

After doing the due diligence, I finally decided on the Kalamera 15" 30 Bottle Wine Cooler" that had 4.5 Star average review of total of 147 reviews as of 2/3/17. I figured that it was a no brainer since the overall reviews were excellent.First Impressions:Packaging: Inadequate. The box is not fully enclosed. The bottom side of the box is open. This is where the wooden palette is attached to the refrigerator. The bottom of the package actually has a wooden palette. The overall packaging did not feel adequate.Aesthetics: The appearance is nice; however, it sits too low to the ground. Consequently, you are not able to see the interior temperature of the cooler. To see the temperature, you have to bend down good bit to have the visual on the temperature display.Deal Breaker Issues:The 30 bottle capacity is completely bogus. There are 6 shelves and each shelf can hold 3 bottles. So the overall capacity of this cooler is around 18-20 bottles not 30. By the way, the bottom shelf is not as deep (approx. half as deep) as the other 5 shelves.In terms of cooling: Current Cooler Temperature reported incorrectly: The temperature display does not show accurate temperature inside. It's off by 10 degrees. In other words, the interior temperature is close to 10 degrees *warmer* that reported by the temperature display.Design Flaws:- Temperature Display not viewable even from good distance from the cooler unless you bend down to the Display's level.- Bottom of the front door has a rubber stopper that is suppose to prevent the door from accidental openings. However, the same rubber stopper causes the door to not properly get closed unless extra force is exerted to close the door. This extra force also cause the refrigerator to shift around.- The trays are of cheap quality (one of the trays is broken in that the glued part of the tray came off). The sliding mechanism is not well designed. These trays look especially cheap when you compare them to the exterior of the cooler.Miscellaneous:This cooler is compressor based and therefore sounds just like a regular refrigerator in the kitchen. As a matter of fact, when measuring the loudness (in decibels), this cooler measure about 10 decibels *higher* than a full size Samsung 28 cubic feet refrigerator. I do want to put the noise level in perspective, though. Even though this cooler as loud as a refrigerator, the noise is not disruptively loud.At $600 price point, this cooler has some critical flaws like cooling is not adquate.I would **definately** NOT recommend this cooler to anyone at the $599 price point.