[Spridgets] No LBC - Kitchen Appliances

bjshov8 at tx.rr.com bjshov8 at tx.rr.com
Mon Jan 17 10:09:30 MST 2011


I think they can all be a crapshoot.  It is worthwhile to do your homework and maybe you can find product a little better than the others.

We remodeled our kitchen a few years ago and got new appliances- dishwasher, builtin microwave, oven, refrigerator, cooktop.  After a lot of looking my wife decided on GE for everything except the cooktop.  As far as I'm concerned all of the appliances have done well and are doing well, except the refrigerator water dispenser isn't working now and the icemaker is hit and miss.  Unfortunately I think icemakers are troublesome no matter what, and even the expensive standalone icemakers are not trouble free.

I think appliances have the same problems as other products- they are so driven by price competition that it is hard for a company to make a quality product and still be able to sell it.

We looked at the appliances at HomeDepot but I insisted on buying them from a locally-owned company that sells only appliances.  They have been around for a long time and I figured that if I had any problems with the appliances up front that I would be more successful in complaining to them than I would be in complaining to Home Depot.  If you can find a good appliance company you might be able to rely on their advice for brand reliablility, but I'm not sure about relying on a Home Depot employee's advice.

I think all products can have problems, the thing is to buy the brand with the fewest percentage of problems.  If you find a complaint online, maybe that is the only person out of thousands that got a bad example.  I buy a lot of computer products from newegg.com, and they have online feedback ratings from 1 to 5.  I've compared similar products and one product would have a high percentage of buyers that gave it a 1 out of 5 while the similar product would have a low percentage.  It is rare to find a product that doesn't have at least 10 percent of buyers giving it a 1 or 2, so I figure that even the best brands still have problems.  I've done the same thing with online ratings at bestbuy.com.  I figure if a product has less than 10% giving it a 1 or 2 then that's the best I'll find and beyond that I have to take my chances.




>  Are they all a crapshoot as far as getting a
>  good appliance or has anyone been consistently happy with the 
> performance of one brand over another?


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