Seagull IV X-1F Drinking Water Purifier - RV Marine Model

The Seagull IV is excellent. Small, easy to install and the filter lasts for over a year. It's pricey but worth every penny. This is our second purchase. The first purchase was in our previous home and was a popular selling point when we sold our house. When we moved to our current home this water filter was enormously missed so we bought it again. It's hard to live without it. The water is pure and delicious, easy to fill containers from the mini faucet that comes with it and looks great on our sink.....we absolutely love it and I trust it.

It does NOT eliminate tank taste. Bought this because of small 'footprint' compared to other purifiers even though it had a MUCH higher price tag. Now after cutting water hose, installing and drilling a 3/4 inch hole in my counter top, it is useless. Water tastes just as nasty as it does coming straight from the tap. It was easy to install and would be perfect if it worked!

My brother-in-law started me on the Seagull water purified in New York. When I moved to Florida I had a Seagull in my condo. I bought a new house and my contractor installed a GE purified and when I tasted the water it was terrible! So I bought Seagull and I am very,very happy with the taste of this water. It has no taste or smell of any chemicals that the GE purifier had. It was the best bang for my buck!

We bought this filter in September 2017. Within 6 months it started leaking … from the activator switch and from the base. We called Customer Service. After being grilled about the installation, they agreed to send a new O-Ring. The O-Ring solved nothing. We have been calling Seagull regularly for 4 years about the leaking, which runs all over the counter. Today, they again said O-Ring. We finally demanded to talk with tech support. After sharing (the attached video) with Paul in tech support, he said it looked like a cracked on/off cartridge. Paul asked for our information and said someone would call us back. Margot, from Customer Service called back. She said that she had been working at Seagull for 20 years and no one told her that the on/off cartridge could crack, and just to tell everyone who called about a leak that it was the o-ring. We explained to Margot that we’ve been calling Seagull for 4 years about this problem. Despite that, and after multiple O-rings did not solve our leaks, Seagull refused to replace the cartridge bc the unit is no longer under warranty. We had to pay for the new on/off cartridge. No apologies were offered.

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Gillette invented what's commonly called the "razor and blades" business model. Simply put, you essentially give the razor away and make your money selling blades, which your customers need to buy forever. Clearly, no one at Seagull has ever heard of this, since they overcharge customers for both. At over one hundred dollars a pop, plus shipping, they are surely making a very nice profit on their replacement filter cartridges--their "blades," if you will--but that's not the focus of my price complaint here. The truly insane overpricing is for the installation kit you must buy--"the razor"--for almost six hundred dollars. What do you get for all that money? A filter cartridge, which is worth about a hundred bucks. And some plumbing parts which, if I'm being really generous, might be worth about fifty dollars at retail. There's a metal canister to hold the filter cartridge. A mounting bracket to hold/mount that canister under your sink. A couple of short pieces of flexible plumbing hoses. And a small, very modest quality faucet that mounts in the same sink hole where a spray hose or soap dispenser might usually go. That's what you get for the other five hundred dollars of the purchase price. I have no complaints about the filter's performance. I live in NYC, which is actually known for having some of the cleanest, best-tasting drinking water in the country, and I seriously doubted if any filter could improve much upon it. So I had a friend give me a blind-tasting of water from the tap vs. water from the filter, and I could tell the difference immediately: the filtered water tasted AND smelled that much better than the tap water. And when I opened my eyes, it looked better, too--it just had added clarity. Plus, it filters quickly and maintains great water pressure. Honestly, as expensive as they are, I could live with the price of filter cartridges that last for a thousand gallons. But the installation kit is so ridiculously overpriced, you just feel ripped off when you get it. To sum up: you get four to five star filter performance at a one star price. I seriously considered a final rating of two stars before settling on three, so this is more of a 2.5 star review. Thanks for taking the time to read my review, and I hope you find it helpful in making a buying decision.

I bought this to go under my sink! It came as described. I had it installed by one of my friend and it was quick! Water tastes good. Great product!

Very good. No regrets. It does what it says. Easy to installed. Recommend to everyone, value for money. Thank you SEAGULL.