Espresso can be quite the expensive hobby and a lot of people are not interested in investing $600 to $1200 for a starter setup so the superautomatic and pod/kcup machines are popular with many people.A quick view of the Verismo website, <a href="http://www.verismo.com/en-us/">http://www.verismo.com/en-us/</a> shows it to be a fairly inexpensive Kcup machine, most of these machines are fixed in volume.