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Post# 562741   12/12/2011 at 03:12 (4,491 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Quick look back via television commercials for when Maytag stood for something.
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Post# 562749 , Reply# 1   12/12/2011 at 05:27 (4,491 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod)   |   | |
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Post# 562762 , Reply# 2   12/12/2011 at 07:45 (4,491 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI)   |   | |
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Post# 562763 , Reply# 3   12/12/2011 at 08:02 (4,491 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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MT was very clever to come up with and run this ad series so long. The public has a very short memory and by keeping the same theme people really remembered it, although they didn't always remember the MT brand as I must have been asked if I liked being the Lonely Repairman when I was rearing my WP uniform about a thousand times LOL.
But like most commercials the reality was a little different, probably only thier automatic washer and wringer washers were the most trouble free in the US market. And even on these we were far from lonely, when I think of all the warranty parts we processed in the mid 1970s for MT appliances. However the biggest offenders were often the parts that MT did not build, the motors, timers, and inlet valves.
Unfortunately Maytag never achieved the top reliability that they advertised. And we got busier and busier as they brought out thier DW and Garbage disposers. And all hell broke loose when they bought Hardwick stoves, Adrimal refrigerators, and Norge laundry, the MT man was never lonely again. LOL And by the mid 1990s things had gotten so bad WP threatened to expose the lye in thier advertising about being so reliable that MT dropped the old lonely campaign and they became The Innovation company.
The great thing about Maytag was that they always tried to build a better product and when a customer had an excessive amount of problems they would usually provide no cost replacement parts or in the case of thier early DWs they would often replace the whole machine. |
Post# 562827 , Reply# 4   12/12/2011 at 15:24 (4,490 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY)   |   | |
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when driving through an old abandonned commercial area, and in a cement recess near a truck dock, I couldn't believe my eyes. There, among a choas of debris, was the highly coveted Maytag Cadillac laying on its side, given up for dead: aliminum goose neck yanked out and missing, front right foot missing, and a broken coupler in the wringer.
Brought it home, plugged it in, and it WORKED. Brought a big smile of Maytag Dependable satisfacton, and of course, how could I not help but think of the Lonely repair man. This machine will never die. Here she is borrowing--I should say sharing--a wringer with her sister. |
Post# 562842 , Reply# 5   12/12/2011 at 16:37 (4,490 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Post# 562843 , Reply# 6   12/12/2011 at 16:38 (4,490 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Post# 562890 , Reply# 7   12/12/2011 at 19:54 (4,490 days old) by MaytagA710 ()   |   | |
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Let the Commercials roll! CLICK HERE TO GO TO MaytagA710's LINK |
Post# 562891 , Reply# 8   12/12/2011 at 19:55 (4,490 days old) by MaytagA710 ()   |   | |
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Here is a French language commercial from Quebec Canada. I cannot translate it for anyone unfortunately. CLICK HERE TO GO TO MaytagA710's LINK |
Post# 562892 , Reply# 9   12/12/2011 at 19:55 (4,490 days old) by MaytagA710 ()   |   | |
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Here is another French language Maytag commercial featuring the WU1000! CLICK HERE TO GO TO MaytagA710's LINK |
Post# 562970 , Reply# 10   12/13/2011 at 07:40 (4,490 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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The one to buy in the first place, clever ad as most people never liked the loading of these if they had had a regular machine before. But we had many customers that loved thier RR MT DWs if it was thier first DW as they didn't have anything to compare it to.
But the RR design was hurting MTs DW sales so much that they changed to more conventual rack design, but the wash arms were still a holdover from the RR machines and never made much sense as they still didn't have a real wash arm under the top rack [ like every good DW in the world currently has ]. Finely when MT introduced thier Tall Tub machines they got the wash arms in the correct places, but DW performance in general had been dubbed down so much buy this time that it was not a great machine overall [ like almost all current DWs ]
What a shame that MT wasted all those years trying to do something different rather than just trying to go head to head against WP, KA, GE and WH DWs and actually building a better DW. And keep in mind this was all done under Maytag control, you can't blame any of this on Whirlpools buying out MT. |
Post# 563574 , Reply# 11   12/16/2011 at 14:53 (4,486 days old) by bpetersxx (laf in on the banks of the Wabash River)   |   | |
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Then we have here the person who should have got the job as the Maytag repairman when they were looking for a replacement back a few years ago
www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/T... Now I wonder who it could be (I am kidding I know who this is this is our own Jetaction Don Shier) CLICK HERE TO GO TO bpetersxx's LINK |
Post# 563581 , Reply# 12   12/16/2011 at 15:17 (4,486 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay)   |   | |
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