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Why washing machines die young!!! |
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Post# 754646   5/3/2014 at 06:29 (3,646 days old) by ozzie908 (Lincoln UK)   |   | |
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Post# 754679 , Reply# 2   5/3/2014 at 10:26 (3,646 days old) by mark_wpduet (Lexington KY)   |   | |
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Post# 754873 , Reply# 7   5/4/2014 at 11:22 (3,645 days old) by jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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points Everyone! I concur on your observations ! I just got the shock of my life this week!
After the third year with my beauty Sub Zero; my "new" 4 year old Amana crapped out at my rental home. So I went out right away to the local want ads and picked up a SECOND 25 year old Sub Zero. Its been humming away ever since along with my first one.
Now get this, something must be happening in the marketplace! I was sourcing extra parts for my SZ on ebay last week, when I fell through the floor! When I was last looking in the Want Ad, SZ of my vintage were going for $200-$500 which even in 2003 I felt steep! But I paid it back then! That Amana cost $1500.00 lasted 4 years and on the Cape COMPLETLY rusted out the freezer box! And it was NOISY! Louder than the D/W NO JOKE!!
You'll have to pry my SZ's out of my cold dead hands !!
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Post# 754999 , Reply# 8   5/5/2014 at 04:41 (3,644 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea))   |   | |
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All spot on. And especially the "greenness" of landfilling "durable" goods on a 2-5 year cycle. The logic manages to elude 85% of the buying public and 100% of the US and EU DOG (department of greenness).
Right, save fourpence a week on hot water, blow $600 replacing junk and the carbon deficit of making more. Using the (bargain) price of $600 and 3yr as the average age when it becomes impractical to repair, that's FOUR DOLLARS A WEEK 'junk tax' for an energy "saving" of SIX DOLLARS over the 'life' of the machine. To whom but a bureaucrat would those numbers look 'right'? |