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A good dryer senses the moisture and adjusts the heat so it dosnt shrink your clothes and you dont have to take them out damp and hang them anyway, throws in a few reverse spins so clothes dry more evenly, and some other stuff Im sure.

It's not like the reasons new ones are more efficient is inherent to the reasons they're more fragile though. You know how you can tell? Because machines at laundromats are just as efficient and don't break all the time!

The fridge is the appliance that consumes most power. A modern fridge, with a high energy saving rating will pay itself in a couple of years.

If the only issue is the looks, could you not do something like a vinyl wrap or just plaster it with art?

Fuck in door ice makers. You're adding complexity and making the whole thing less reliable and less efficient.

I keep seeing people say this, but they only have a 3 year warranty. Samsung, siemens, and random chinese companies I've never seen in the US offer 20 year, on much cheaper machines.

Luck of the draw.

We're suffering from design issues. People want refrigerators with the freezer on the bottom and washers that open in the front.

Then companies want to make you connect to the internet so they can put an app on your cell phone and sell your data to every bidder.

Then, adding insult to injury unless you buy the top of the line they skimp. (And even then sometimes, looking at you Samsung refrigerators) That mid-range dishwasher no longer has a mascerator in the sump and the walls and the swing arms are all made out of plastic with no bearings. They're not putting good seals and isolation around the logic boards.

You can buy good long-lasting stuff if you're careful. But man are you going to pay.

When people look at a $3000 - $4,000 laundry set vs a $1200 set They start to ponder if it washes clothes does it matter.

ol' Genghis

99/100 times user error is the answer to most stuff. Users are idiots who will not accept responsibility as long as they can say "well it's the appliance that is built bad".

This is my mother in law to a tee, she buys second hand washing machines on craigslist for $100 - 200 they last about a year and she buys a new one. Always complaining about "planned obsolescence". I keep telling her "no one is selling a good used washing machine, they had problems with it and got a new one" Meanwhile she criticizes me for spending $700 on a washing machine we have had for 10 years now.

She has a saying "poor people have poor ways" which she thinks means that when your poor you work with what you have, I have told her it is an insult that means poor people are poor because of their actions and decisions.

Not AliExpress, but fucking Samsung. They may appliances with all the cool smart features and they're everywhere, but holy shit are they terrible for reliability (both per my own experience and according to repair people I've talked with).

My washer/dryer unit stopped working properly after less than 5 years. Out of warranty. I was damned if I was going to toss it or pay the equivalent to fix. So, I researched, found the problem, purchased the part and fixed it myself. I'm a 58 yo woman who is so sick and tired of the games corporations play to part us with our money.