Thread Number: 73396
/ Tag: Modern Automatic Washers
Whirlpool vs Samsung, LG |
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Post# 969398 , Reply# 1   11/22/2017 at 12:51 (2,318 days old) by speedqueen (Metro-Detroit)   |   | |
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With that tarriff, there is a chance that WP might boost quality a bit because they are not in a cut-every-corner price war w/ the Koreans.
Besides, free, unbalanced trade has killed so many US industries. Remember Zenith and RCA leading the TV and electronics industry? The last vestages of the Zenith brand are owned by LG and RCA is just a liscensing name. The govt. of the time let the Japanese and Koreans kill the US industry, they knew about dumping on part of the Japanese and for favorable relations in other negotiations, let the unthinkable happen. Also, I'm starting to think that consumers on a whole are stupid and cannot be bothered to think of long term quality and buying the best so you only have to buy once. Without the government, RCA and Zenith went from leading the pack in 1975 to falling fast by 1985. They had to start cutting their own corners to price compete because few would pay for quality anymore. RIP Sarnoff Labs... |
Post# 969426 , Reply# 2   11/22/2017 at 17:15 (2,317 days old) by Gyrafoam (Wytheville, VA)   |   | |
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Oh, I know. The last Zenith TV I bought early in the 90's was stamped "Hencho en Mexico". The "sheeple" have been dumbed-down and trained to pay more and expect less. |
Post# 969523 , Reply# 9   11/23/2017 at 09:43 (2,317 days old) by agiflow2 ()   |   | |
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I'll bet it is more the millennials who are buying the LG and Samsung products. They have their cell phones...so why not their appliances. As far as LG being better than WP that is a joke. Agree to disagree. |
Post# 969531 , Reply# 10   11/23/2017 at 10:22 (2,317 days old) by henene4 (Heidenheim a.d. Brenz (Germany))   |   | |
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Better in terms of more advanced: LG is sure ahead of WP. Better in terms of results: Both equal. Better in terms of machine construction: I'd say WP os slightly ahead. |
Post# 969534 , Reply# 11   11/23/2017 at 10:34 (2,317 days old) by cfz2882 (Belle Fourche,SD)   |   | |
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LEDs pull in millenials like a 400w Mercury vapor lamp draws in clouds of moths :)I have a 21 YO nephew,so I have experienced this phenomenon first hand :) |
Post# 969553 , Reply# 12   11/23/2017 at 12:51 (2,317 days old) by Whatsername (Denver, CO)   |   | |
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Post# 969563 , Reply# 13   11/23/2017 at 14:27 (2,317 days old) by Lorainfurniture (Cleveland )   |   | |
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Sorry to burst your bubble but the pet rock fad was 1975. |
Post# 969568 , Reply# 14   11/23/2017 at 15:20 (2,317 days old) by cfz2882 (Belle Fourche,SD)   |   | |
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Ya,pet rocks more a gen.jones thing :)for millenials it is smartphone apps and I-tunes cards(at least my nephew anyway :)GEN.x was video games,skateboards... :)Funny how marketers are hovering over millenials,but many don't want to buy anything tangible or own a car,home,ETC... |
Post# 969585 , Reply# 17   11/23/2017 at 17:46 (2,316 days old) by mark_wpduet (Lexington KY)   |   | |
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My house is definitely a Whirlpool house - And since moving into my new home in 2004, I've had incredibly good luck with my WP appliances. They are all still here working over 13 years later, with the exception of the dishwasher, which was replaced just over 9 years old. The only repair has been the Duet washer (2nd year) and the side x side fridge had one small repair and a new ice maker we installed. That's it.
Now, about LG being more advanced - it's just Whirlpool could ADD more common sense things to their Front load washers. (aside from load sensing technology) 1. drain pump access 2. recirculation pump 3. spray rinse 4. water plus (or something similar) These are reasons that I've been considering and LG with TurboWash as my next FL (but I haven't fully decided yet) It may be a while because my Duet is still working great. |
Post# 969601 , Reply# 19   11/23/2017 at 20:08 (2,316 days old) by agiflow2 ()   |   | |
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Post# 969606 , Reply# 20   11/23/2017 at 20:34 (2,316 days old) by Gyrafoam (Wytheville, VA)   |   | |
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Sadly, trying to compare anything built today with something built more than ten years ago is not comparing apples to apples no matter who manufactures it. |
Post# 970713 , Reply# 22   11/29/2017 at 21:51 (2,310 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI)   |   | |
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The only thing Whirlpool gained dominating the market the way it did was putting drop-down doors on Myrag dryers, and perhaps the triple-action Surgilator in Maytag's washers....
Quite a reflection of the quality and reliability, if there is such a define in the way each brand used to build its appliances reliably, they are about equal in that you're getting a Maytag that will work and last as long as a newer a Whirlpool, but at least a Whirlpool saved Maytag from the decline of machines that were more like the Admiral lines that they bought and built like... -- Dave |
Post# 970807 , Reply# 24   11/30/2017 at 15:25 (2,310 days old) by Yogitunes (New Jersey)   |   | |
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I don't know that the pricing between WP, GE, LG, or Samsung are all that different....in checking pricing from place to place, maybe a 25 to 50 dollar difference, and that could just be a sale, but nothing major in pricing to jump for joy.....
just like theres not much of a price difference from shopping Sears, Lowes, HomeDepot, HHGregg, etc..... I will admit, Samsung dryers are super quiet..... and LG FL washers seem to have a lot of leaking from around the dispenser drawers, and hence rusting around the front area.... may not be all, just the ones I have come across all seem to have the same issues... |
Post# 970818 , Reply# 25   11/30/2017 at 16:40 (2,310 days old) by firedome (Binghamton NY & Lake Champlain VT)   |   | |
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we've been extremely satisfied with 2 WP BOL top freezer fridges we bought, one 7 yrs ago for camp and one 2 yrs ago for here. Also a WP BOL TL washer 7 yrs ago, not one problem with any of them. Actually the same goes for a BOL GE d/w bought 8 yrs ago and a GE BOL TL washer a couple years ago. Zero issues and decent enough performance from all of them. Considering they were as about as low priced as any appliancesmade, if one goes belly up there's not too much to complain about, really, but we're not expecting that to happen any time soon. That said given a choice for new we'll buy US made, however the next house will be primarily vintage US stuff... just for fun!
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Post# 970831 , Reply# 26   11/30/2017 at 18:48 (2,309 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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I find LG front loaders aren't nearly as flexible as Whirlpool and Maytag front loaders. Steam is only relegated to certain cycles with LG. and steam is a way to force the heater to heat up the water and get the environment inside the tub hotter. You can't get extra hot or steam on LG's towels cycle. LG's Perm Press cycle doesn't offer steam or extra hot. I use steam option and hot water on my wrinkle free white dress shirts, gets those collars clean. With Whirlpool I can opt for extra hot as well as steam on Towels cycle. And same temperature option on Delicates. Even steam and extra hot on quick wash. On comparable Maytag Maxima extra hot and steam on Wrinkle Free (comparable to Whirlpool's Delicate) as well as Bedding, which I imagine is similar to Whirlpoo's Towels. I want to be able to get any water temperature I can select. Cold Water cycles are totally useless as far as I'm concerned. |
Post# 970902 , Reply# 28   12/1/2017 at 08:45 (2,309 days old) by vacerator (Macomb, Michigan)   |   | |
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Europe already has automated robotic pharmacies. Will this eventually displace pharmacy techs? I don't know, but it may indeed. |
Post# 971161 , Reply# 31   12/2/2017 at 16:02 (2,308 days old) by speedqueen (Metro-Detroit)   |   | |
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That only furthers my point and proves that the last bits of protectionism created jobs here. When the tariffs fell and the slanted trade deals came, those manufacturers moved production back to their home countries or China.
When a forign manufacturer has factories here, we get jobs. When a US company outsources labor we still get the profits(US shareholders) and tax dollars. When a forign manufacturer sells goods here we get NOTHING but the overpriced, cheaply made goods. As to my age, were any historians around during the Roman Empire? I suggest that they be discredited as well, based on the same logic. I'm one of the sore few of my generation that laments the replacement of documentaries with reality TV on The History Channel. Don't even get me started on "Ancient Aliens"!!! |
Post# 971286 , Reply# 33   12/3/2017 at 13:39 (2,307 days old) by speedqueen (Metro-Detroit)   |   | |
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My mother used to work at former Carboloy which was once a division of General Electric. She worked in the office starting in the late 1970s as a PBX switchboard operator and worked up to being an inside sales representative, which, at the time, was the most coveted position in the office as corporate paid for travel expenses and work was like a perennial vacation. By the time she left to become a stay at home mother in 1999 all perks of the job were gone and "College Educated" employees were being hired that knew nothing real about their job.
As to Hooker Chemical, an often forgotten bit of history is that Hooker actually sealed in the waste site better than most were at the time. They lined and capped Love Canal with thick walls of clay, a practice still used today. They also didn't even want to sell the property as they thought it was a liability to do so, but the city begged them and eventually they decided to sell for $1 but included a disclaimer telling what the site was and that all responsibility was to the new owner, the City of Niagara Falls. It was the city who drew up the property boundaries, sold some land to a developer, and put the school dead center of the dump. They destroyed the clay cap during construction and the rest as we shall say is history. An interesting fact is that during longitudinal studies of the cancer rate at Love Canal they determined that there wasn't an elevated occurrence. |
Post# 971371 , Reply# 35   12/3/2017 at 22:35 (2,306 days old) by speedqueen (Metro-Detroit)   |   | |
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