this blender is totally fine. for the money, it's pretty good. it doesn't totalllllly blend stuff, but you need a super expensive blender to do that. sometimes it is leaky if you don't tighten it a lot, but that is usually my fault. I find it's sometimes kind of hard to get the container out of the base, but again that is mostly me.
for the money, it's a totally decent blender that is definitely worth it.