Thread Number: 33080
Last decade of Maytag washer production question... |
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Post# 498954 , Reply# 1   2/24/2011 at 06:55 (4,781 days old) by maytagmike (Burlington, Vt)   |   | |
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Hi I work in the appliance business, when Maytag came out with the performa we asked the same question, the answer from our rep at the time is that Maytag felt they were missing the lower price point, with their machines running between 5 and 6 hundred dollars they wanted to manf a machine with a 399 to 499 price point, which I feel was the beginning of their downfall.
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Post# 498958 , Reply# 2   2/24/2011 at 07:19 (4,781 days old) by yogitunes (New Jersey)   |   | |
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It's always about the ALL MIGHTY DOLLAR......at that point the dependable quality history has known from Maytag was shot to hell........
just history repeating itself......and you can't tell these bigwigs that they don't know what their doing......after all, look how sucessful GM Frigidaire was by selling off to WCI..... |
Post# 499142 , Reply# 3   2/25/2011 at 00:27 (4,780 days old) by Supersuds (Knoxville, Tenn.)   |   | |
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There was actually an article, I think in the Wall Street Journal, about this. Yes, it was price. The reporter visited an appliance store in Newton, Iowa, and the owner stated that most local people balked at paying the price of a Neptune or Dependable Care and walked straight to the lower-cost models.
I know the Maytag prices were a dealbreaker for some people in my orbit. It just wasn't obvious what you were getting for the extra bucks over a DD Whirlpool. |