Sarah Peyton - Slate Tower Fountain - Straight

I rarely return items. If I can find a way to make it work I will.First off the item does not look nearly as nice as it does in the photo. The rock does not have the color nore does it have the same kind of texturing. The lighting sucks and is barely visible.The waterflow takes a while to get going and once it does, it's so weak it makes no sound what-so-ever.I rearranged the rocks as recommended by other people and even than the sound is barely a trickle that is noticeable when sitting right in front of it.I would not recommend any of Sara Peyton's products. The other items she sells have just as bad of reviews.In my opinion Amazon should stop selling her products all together.I was than tempted to do some work to it myself to make it work better. For example buying a better pump and installing it. But the way this is made there are no screws to take it apart and no way of disassembling it. You're stuck with this junk, and forced to return it as I did. The water isn't even a pretty site because you can barely even see it on the black plastic rock background.

I've seen quite a few negative reviews on multiple websites for this product and I would like to address the most commons ones:1. Poor flow: I had this issue too, however it corrected itself with my model. After filling the reservoir and adding stones, I turned it on and nothing happened except the buzz from the pump. I figured it would take a while to get it going, so I waited for about 5 minutes before a single bead of water made it out the top of the fountain and trickled down the face. Thinking that maybe it needed more time, I let it sit while that single line trickled out for another couple minutes. Then I let it keep running while I read the instructions to make sure I wasn't missing something, then I looked up on the internet to see if this was a common problem. After maybe 15 minutes of reading awful reviews and thinking "I really should just chuck this thing" all of a sudden the water started flowing out the top and covered the entire face of the fountain, operating correctly. This brings us to the second point:2. The sound of the water is too quiet/non-existent: Once the fountain actually began to flow, the water was not making any sound at all. It looked really pretty but the soothing sounds of flowing water were absent. This was fixed much quicker: you have to arrange the rocks at the bottom of the fountain such that the water hits them just right in order to make noise. Mostly this involves leaning the rocks against the face of the fountain and shifting and moving them around until the water makes a noise against them. I played with it for about 30 seconds and got a decent "flowing water" sound, which was able to drown out the sound of the pump (which is comparatively loud when the rocks are not placed properly) as well as be heard over the sound of my (quite loud) desktop computer running. I may add a video at some point to show that this can actually be accomplished.3. Poor battery life: This one I really can't explain. Many people are complaining about fresh batteries dying after 4 hours of continuous use, while I had mine running for six hours straight, turned it off over night, and have been running it again for the last 2 hours as of writing this, with no noticeable effect on the flow of water. Maybe I got lucky and had some extraordinarily efficient pump installed in mine, or my batteries are of alien design (I pulled them out of my roommate's X-box controller, so they were certainly not fresh), but I have not had this problem. I ordered a AC converter for $10 anyways, as I hate changing batteries, but so far it's been holding strong.Now there are a lot of other complaints regarding the pumps and LED lights dying after a couple months that I can't comment on, as I have only owned this for a few days, and I will amend this review once I pass that point. Normally I don't do reviews on products because others tend to be spot on, but I feel like this one is getting the short end of the stick. I also wanted to help people who bought this before they checked the reviews (like me) to get it to actually work properly. It is a bit annoying that it takes so long to make it properly functional, but I am happy with it now that I have (so far at least.) To be honest, you get what you pay for, and I paid $7 for this, so I can't complain too much.On a side note: the directions say to add 6-8 oz of water, when in reality I added closer to 22-28 oz (approximately).

This fountain could have been better however given the price compared to similar products, I didn't expect miracles.The fountain itself takes a while to start flowing water however I found that when I added more water it flowed perfectly, covered the face of the tower and was what I was looking for in a fountain.The lights are not bright at all and as for the battery life I can't comment as haven't owned it long enough, I'm actually very pleased with this purchase for the price- just remember to add more water than it recommends and it runs a dream.

I was really excited when I received this as a gift exchange but after putting it together was VERY DISAPPOINTED. The motor is loud and there isn't any trickling water sound....at least not loud enough to drown out the motor sound. I tried playing with the stones like one of the suggestions, but no matter what or how I arranged them it didn't drown out the motor sound. Some years ago, I purchased one similar to this for around $20.00 and it had an electrical cord without the loud sound of the motor and you could actully hear the trickiling water across the room. Sarah Peyton's shouldn't even be given away....what a disappointment. Shame on you Sarah Peyton for selling such a piece of junk to fill your pockets.

After reading all the scathing reviews of this fountain on Amazon, I was worried it would even work at all. Thankfully, mine started pouring water as soon as I put the (two AA) batteries in. However, the water doesn't completely cover the face of the fountain like in the picture. Also, the "LED" lights are certainly not as bright as pictured - in fact I can barely see them. The motor is also quite loud and drowns out any "soothing sound of water".Despite all of its problems, the fountain only cost me $10 and it works well enough. My fountain came with a lot of rocks and it looks stylish enough to display in an office, bedroom, etc. Too bad Sarah Peyton didn't spend more money on the fountain's motor/lights and not rocks....this could have been a really great product.

I also saw this at CVS while shopping, and thought this would've been great for my lady who had been looking for a water fountain for months. Before I next saw her, I happened to look online and see these poor reviews, so I opened it to make sure I wasn't about to gift her with a lemon. Added water and batteries, and sure enough, the motor was way too noisy for this product to be "soothing". I didn't even bother adding the rocks; there's no way the water sounds could ever be loud enough to offset that motor. Ridiculous cheap piece of crap. At even $10 it's far from worth it. Sarah Peyton, whomever you are, I hope you realize you are severely damaging your name by putting out these poor products.