"It's a brand new stove!  Why do only two burners work?!"

"We only subscribed to two."

"And is that why the convection doesn't work in the oven?"

"Well, you said we probably wouldn't use it."

Don't give those bastards any ideas, I'm sure manufactures keep a close eye on this site.

Seriously, paying to subscribe for a remote start or choosing air conditioning or windows that will open so you can do that in place of it, I hope isn't going to cause a lot of people to give up driving...

Ditto for appliances, if my ice maker stops or I forgot I can no longer use the detergent dispenser in my clothes washer or even my dishwasher because I'm behind in my payments for and they neglected to send me a shut-off notice...

-- Dave

Capitalism has truly run amok.

Fixed that for you.

You had to pay $50, $100, $150 or even $200 for an extra jumper in the timer block to unlock permanent press, delicate, soak and extra rinse cycles. 

Isn't there a way to unblock stuff in the timer yourself?!

Surely that's what I would resort to do if I had paid for those features and they're there then that's what I want to use...

-- Dave

In the 80s/90s cars were sold with built-in garage door/gate openers  also built in phones. 

There was no guarantee the signal sender would be compatible or that one would necessarily need it.

The phones you had to pay for, much like now, and much like satellite radio.  So this isn't a new concept. 

They are just trying to apply it to other features.

I'm sure it's just them trying things out to see what will fly.  

There is! All you need is some wire, a crimper and some molex connectors.

Here is an example:

https://usermanual.wiki/Pdf/KenmoreWasherWiringDiagram3954487.654272181

In BOL Galaxy models there is no wire jumper from contact 10A to 10 (GY2-GY) and 2A and 2 (V2-V). As a result the permanent press feature is disabled leaving a blank on half the control.

Further, contacts 11 and 15 close at different periods in the wash cycle- however despite this in Galaxy models 11 and 15 are shorted together to produce warm wash cold rinse only decal. But in the next four models up (notice the 5 different pressure switch options for each successive model, when such an option is present on the control panel) contacts 11 and 15 are taken to their respective water valves allowing for hot a wash at 14 minutes, warm wash at 12 minutes and cold wash at 10 minutes into the normal cycle- as displayed on the dial for Normal and PP. Still in the next few models up 11 and 15 are again shorted, but taken to a separate user controlled temperature selector as seen in the wiring diagram. 

Like this one timer can cover a dozen models and even price matching schemes.

For the next timer in line you might see the high/low/S.I.S contacts all shorted together and taken to a single high speed winding in the one speed models, two speed models the high taken to the high and the low/interim taken to a low winding, next model up into a speed selector switch, ect.

Same goes for soak/prewash/extra rinse/auto advance. Jumpers left out on the basic models, each successive model up gets a jumper enabling each progressive feature, next models up runs the rinse auto advance contact via an extra rinse switch, still next model up runs all 3 auto advance contacts into a user selector switch ie pre wash only, prewash and wash only, soak, wash, extra rinse, ect. 

A half dozen timers can cover nearly 100 models this way. I've always found the practice unethical and cheating consumers. It goes to show you how dangerous an educated public can be.

Of course I've tried to explain this to Sears sales people buying a BOL with them looking at me like I'm mentally impaired or that I genuinely believe they're going to sell me a TOL Kenmore for the price of a Galaxy. As technical minded friends have said in amused agreement "they've NOOOOOO clue what you're talking about. Zero"

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