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Post# 625106 9/15/2012 at 07:49 (4,233 days old) by Ultramatic  (New York City) |
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| Post# 625243 , Reply# 1 9/15/2012 at 19:58 (4,233 days old) by mrb627 (Buford, GA) | ||
Funny | ||
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Post# 625245 , Reply# 2 9/15/2012 at 20:03 (4,233 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Hmmmm... | ||
| Post# 625298 , Reply# 3 9/16/2012 at 01:51 (4,232 days old) by mixfinder () | ||
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Watch Out I also got a virus alert and Microsoft Security Essentials tagged it for removal. When I clicked on the next page the same issue occured so I decided it best not to continue. | ||
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Post# 625301 , Reply# 4 9/16/2012 at 02:21 (4,232 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay) |
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 No virus alert here either. The site looks perfectly legit, but the appliances are pretty bogus. To say India is a little late to the frost-free party would be an understatement. I thought things were a little further along than that. Are all of those call center people over there using string and tin cans? | ||
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Post# 625308 , Reply# 5 9/16/2012 at 03:53 (4,232 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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Another interesting website
This is the link to Whirlpool Hong Kong. It looks like they have washers from all parts of the world, you can choose European style, American style and Asian style washers.
CLICK HERE TO GO TO foraloysius's LINK This post was last edited 09/16/2012 at 06:13 | ||
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Post# 625319 , Reply# 6 9/16/2012 at 06:05 (4,232 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Post# 625320 , Reply# 7 9/16/2012 at 06:14 (4,232 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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Post# 625321 , Reply# 8 9/16/2012 at 06:14 (4,232 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Actually, frost free refrigeration is surprisingly recent to Europe as well Ralph. I remember seeing ads touting "new" frost free refrigerators (Candy brand) in Spanish magazines in the early 1990's. It must be because they consume more power. My partner bought a 2 door Whirlpool in Seville back in 2007, a big, American style, European model (it wasn't tall and thin, but wide like ours) and it too had to be manually defrosted. | ||
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Post# 625566 , Reply# 9 9/17/2012 at 02:51 (4,231 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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Actually frost free refrigeration is older in Europe than the 1990's, but it was never popular here. Not only did the frost free refrigerators consume more power, but they were rather expensive too compared to the non frost free ones. Another aspect is that the frost free technology takes up rather much space in the smaller European fridges.
A few years ago I bought a Bosch frost free refrigerator (bottom freezer). Although it was bigger than my previous non frost free fridge, there was not much more space in the on itself bigger freezer. Actually I was rather disappointed with the space so I bought an extra non frost free freezer (Liebherr). | ||
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Post# 625581 , Reply# 10 9/17/2012 at 05:45 (4,231 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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So they don't all go down the banks of the Ganges to do laundry! I wonder who makes the front loaders they market in India? Once those glaciers finish melting, India is gonna be short of water. | ||
| Post# 625894 , Reply# 11 9/18/2012 at 11:13 (4,230 days old) by glenfieldmathk1 (Glenfield-Leicester-UK) | ||
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India washers, look like Beko's!! Maybe Beko (or its parents) got a deal from Whirlpool to make some machines. | ||
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Post# 625991 , Reply# 12 9/18/2012 at 19:49 (4,230 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Asian, South American and "Third World" Countries
Are the next and possibly the last area of growth for everything from appliance makers to consumer products including automobiles from the West.
It's simple economics that played out the same way across Europe, the UK and North America; as the standard of living expands to middle and even lower classes consumer goods become affordable and even desired as a way of showing wealth and status. It was just a generation ago most Chinese still rode bicycles, now the country is the fastest growing automobile market (IIRC) on earth. While still having a way to go in terms of bringing a majority of it's population up to "high poor" status much less middle class, India is changing and bringing withit a market for all that we here hold dear in terms of goods. If history is any indicator one of the first mod cons a household will want in these developing countries is a washing machine. | ||
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Post# 626037 , Reply# 13 9/19/2012 at 01:00 (4,230 days old) by rapunzel (Sydney) |
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So they don't all go down the banks of the Ganges to do If they have a power outlet, I guess not. | ||
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