At first, I thought this was a great little blender, but each time I used it, I noticed black "dust" on my counter afterwards, but I couldn't figure out where it was coming from.
Then, this morning, when I hit the blend button, it went for maybe two seconds, then stopped completely, and instead of black dust, there were chunks of black plastic, and rubber, on my counter.
I removed the blender cup from the base, turned it upside down, and the black rubber part that sets into the black plastic piece on the base, were completely destroyed.