If you or a friend has the technical skills, and feel comfortable with opening up the bottom of the coffee maker, you might consider checking the heating element. Unplug the appliance, using a #10 torx driver, remove four screws from the bottom. Remove the bottom. On each end of a U shaped heating element is a metallic thermo fuse.
With an ohmmeter, the resistance of each should be a few tenths of an ohm, if over that, probably burned open. If open, the coffee maker was probably used without water, ie, the filter may have been clogged or coffee beans may have plugged the drain on the bottom of the water reservoir. The correct fuses are 240 degrees C, I was able to purchase some at Radio Shack, I believe 227 degrees, close enough.
Clip out each old fuse next to the fuse body. Shorten the new fuse leads somewhat and wrap the new wires to the old wire stubs. While soldering the new fuse, hold the wire next to the new fuse with needle nose pliers, to act as a heat sink, as to not overheat the fuse and destroy it. Once the fuse cools, solder the other end the same way. Check continuity of the fuse with an ohmmeter, should give a low reading, indicating it isn't open. Install the other fuse in the same manor. Make sure none of the bare wires touch anything.
Pull one end of the orange rubber tube from the plastic fitting. With a faucet or garden hose, force water through the hose, water should come out from the reservoir, hopefully carrying out some old coffee beans. Once the lines are clear, push the hose back on. Don't attempt to remove the ends of the tubes attached to the heating element, they are probably stuck and you may destroy them in the process. Once the lines are clear, you may reinstall the bottom plate using the torx driver.
Fill the reservoir with water, plug the unit in, press "no grind" to just heat water. After a minute of so you should hear water trickling down into the coffee pot. If this all works out, you fixed it and go back to making coffee.
If this solved your problem, it was probably due to the coffee maker not getting enough water to the heating element and it overheated blowing the fuses. I'd recommend that periodically you clean the reservoir, looking for debris that might clog the lines.
Good luck, hope this helps. By the way, opening the coffee maker could void your warranty and if done improperly, could create an electrical shock hazard.
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