A small Amazon-only brand whose scores run from below 3 to above 4.5 — which makes the individual listing, not the badge, the thing to judge.
SOZT is a budget commercial-appliance brand that sells on Amazon and nowhere else. It is a real brand with real customers, but it is a small one: 30 listings and 531 ratings in total across the whole catalogue — and 132 of those belong to a single product. On a brand this thin, the average score is close to meaningless and the individual listing is everything.
Nobody visible. The Manufacturer field reads SOZT on 30 of the 30 listings — the brand names itself as its own manufacturer — and no parent company, factory or country of origin appears anywhere. There is no SOZT corporate website; searches for one find the Amazon storefront and this site. That is ordinary for appliance brands sold this way, and it is not by itself a warning sign. It does mean there is no service network, no published warranty beyond what the listing says, and nobody to call — which is covered in SOZT Ice Maker Manual, Error Codes and Support.
Across 30 distinct listings, 29 carry a star rating and the average is 3.7. That average hides a genuinely wide spread: 8 listings sit below 3.5, and 16 sit at 4.0 or better.
A spread like that is the important finding. It is not a brand you can trust or distrust as a whole — it is a catalogue where some machines are rated well by the people who bought them and others clearly are not, and the difference between picking well and picking badly is large.
Read the counts as carefully as the scores. Several of these listings carry one or two ratings, and a 5.0 from one rating tells you nothing at all. Sort the table below by rating count and the shape of the brand becomes obvious: a handful of machines carry almost all the feedback, and everything else is untested in public.
SOZT relists the same machine under several ASINs. Where two listings share a title and an identical rating count they are the same product, and this site collapses them — 8 of the 38 listings found were duplicates of another. It matters when you are comparing: four search results at 4.1 with 36 ratings are one machine seen four times, not four independent verdicts.
On the evidence in its own catalogue, three things have to line up:
Treat SOZT as a set of individual machines rather than a brand. Check the listing's rating and its rating count, size it on the bin as well as the output, and expect a replacement rather than a repair if it fails. Bought that way it is fair value. Bought on the badge it is a coin toss, and the catalogue itself shows why.
Written from SOZT's own Amazon listings. Availability last checked 2026-09-08; every figure is rebuilt from the listings rather than typed in.