LOOKING for some recent reviews on Hampton GC160 pellet stove

A more recent thread ... these stoves seem to have identical internals as the Enviro M55. https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/regency-gci60-pellet-insert-help.161459/page-2#post-2178371

Beyond pricing, dealer reputation for service after sale is a important part of the decision making.

If you want a reliable user friendly stove, get a Harman. I have a gci and the amount of wear parts that you will replace over time is considerable. It will fail. Motherboard, stir rod, and convection blower all died before the warranty was up on mine. Then the burn pot broke, went through 2 more stir rods, 2 convection blowers again, liner all went since. The cats iron liner failed. Think about that...cast iron a 1/3 of an inch thick cracked right down the middle.

It makes a nice flame and heat no doubt. I was over the moon with it when I first got it. But 2 feet from my stove is a wooden box with the correct torx and wrenches for every screw nut and bolt for tear downs. Whoever designed the stove was a tinkerer. It is a gadget. Engineering is what the stove is missing.

My neighbor has a similar BTU output harman for the same length of time and I have yet to hear about a single part fail.