Party Cooler (Silver) (36.5"H x 33.5"W x 19.5"D)

Description

Get ready for summer get-togethers with this electric beverage cooler! This easy to use wine cooler plugs into standard outlets and keeps wine, beer or soda at the perfect drinking temperature, between 28.4-46.4 degrees. Wheels make relocating a piece of cake! Two side shelves are great for setting drinks or cutting garnishes, and a hanging basket offers extra storage, perfect for bottle openers and accessories. Party in style with this fun electric beverage chiller! Made of PVC plastic. Assembly level/degree of difficulty: Easy.

Features

• Color: Silver
• Size: 36.5"H x 33.5"W x 19.5"D
• This item ships common carrier.
• Holds 12 bottles of wine
• Electric cooler

Customer Reviews

Poorly Designed, Doesn't Work
S. WIlliams

We purchased this from an outside vendor, at the same price currently offered here, to replace a similar Sam's Club unit (unfortunately, it's no longer made) we'd had and used regularly for over a decade, before it finally gave up the ghost. Sadly, though they looked roughly similar, these round, plug-in fridges/coolers were nothing alike.First, the temperature control for this is UNDER the unit. Non-inituitive, clumsy and very poor design. You have to lay on the ground and reach under to turn it on and off or up and down. Dumb. The half-missing (on our) unit sticker that lists the temperature in stick-figure form is also definitely less than helpful.Second, unlike our far less expensive older unit, which was near silent, this thing is NOISY. A loud, blowing fan runs constantly when it's on, even at the lowest setting. Not ear-shattering, but not the kind of thing you could have sitting with you in a quiet room. It sounds a lot like our range hood vent on low, to give you a better idea. Annoying and intrusive.Third, though it's listed as a "party cooler," there are all sorts of dire warnings in the instructions about operating it any environment over 80 degrees. Which means, they don't want you to use it outside. (Something we regularly did with our old unit and something I bet many/most people would buy this for.) And though the advertisements say that it's filled with some sort of substance that retains the cold for up to six hours when NOT plugged in. The manual mentions nothing about this and we saw no cooling/insulating properties with this thing at all.The interior features a large metal "cage" that is attached to the lid by S-hooks. It's all kinds of awkward and stilted and our old unit (hate to harp, but it was just so much better) was just a large open cavity and, frankly, that made it much more functional. Also, with the lid attached as directed, opening and closing it is quite a challenge. It kind of "snaps back" out of your hand and won't open fully to allow you to easily reach in and grab something. More bad design. And, as a special bonus, the plastic half-lid pieces fell out of the rubber lining four or five times each just putting the darn thing together the first time, resulting in a long and painful (as in, cutting yourself on the sharp plastic) reassembly process where you have to carefully thread the plastic back into the rubber grooves, where it instantly pops out one side just as you get the other in, so you have to start all over again. Arghhh!Lastly, and most distressingly, the dang thing flat out didn't work. In prep for a BBQ the next day we filled it up with drinks and plugged it in. It started up right away--with its obnoxious whir--and we promptly moved it into another room to let it do it's thing ... Or so we thought. Roughly 12 hours later we came back to find the drinks were still room temperature. (See photo attached of interior temp after 12 hours turned on.) We played and we poked and we restarted, and moved the temp control dial every which way and the most we could get was a soft blow of cool air from the bottom middle of the unit. After several hours with no results we ran out and bought coolers and ice. Major, major fail.We tried to contact Vinotemp directly and never heard anything back after a week of emails and phone calls. Returning this huge thing was a major PITA and we're still fighting to get a refund, rather than a replacement from the company we purchased from. Save yourself a headache and look elsewhere. Read more ›