Well, the new refrigerator just cost us $1968.44, DAMN NEAR $2000.00. 🤬 🤬 🤬

[a kennedy]

and it’s a no frills, white, bottom of the line General Electric refrigerator. I didn’t even know how to write the check out…..I ran outta space to write it out!!!!!! I hate the design…..you get used to where all the stuff is in the old one, we now have to rotate and change where everything goes. It’s just so different. Think I should happy with change?? I’m not. And sorry, just pissed off today.

[Phoenix61]

1. Yikes! I'm not happy with that kind of change either.

Throw in paying a lot for something you don’t really like. I’d be grump as hell.

[hlthe2b]

2. It is truly amazing that appliances cost 5x more and last decades less long.

I still remember the old tank-like refrigerator/freezer my long-deceased grandmother had for more than 40 years. Now, we are lucky if most appliances last five. sigh...

[RKP5637]

3. I try to keep my older appliances as long as possible and I rebuild them. The new appliances

are built to fall apart, planned obsolescence. I recently rebuilt a 20 year old GE washer/dryer combo. A wonderful machine. I also have $1,000 in spare parts for it ... by tracking parts between various companies ... many use the same parts if you can cross-reference them. Many appliances today are a real ripoff.

[a kennedy]

8. Thinking we should have had someone fix the old one now, I'm sure it wouldn't have been two grand.....

[RKP5637]

9. If you like the appliance and can find a good independent service person that might be the way to go.

[csziggy]

25. Tomorrow a new part will be installed in my 16 year old dishwasher

Fortunately our repair guy found a replacement circuit board - the second replacement for that board over the years. It took ten days to get it and they are in short supply, probably not being made any more for this Frigidaire dishwasher.

The other board in the dishwasher is no longer available so if that one goes out we'll have to replace the entire dishwasher. I priced some models and the three I selected cost between $680 to $950.

This old dishwasher was less than $500 when I bought it - but essentially it was free. I'd ordered a Frigidaire oven - a special model with a side opening door - and there was a deal that if you bought two Frigidaire appliances, you got a $500 rebate. That was on top of the Sears 40% off sale that was going on.

Next time the same board burns out - it's the weak link in this model - I expect I won't be able to get it repaired. So I will be budgeting for a new dishwasher. And I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the rest of my appliances bought at the same time. So far they are all still working great but who knows when they will die?

[RKP5637]

26. Yep, it's often the circuit boards that get you. Hard to find and some components will age

sometimes significantly, like capacitors, for example.

[csziggy]

27. The other board, which is the control panel, has not been made in years

And all supplies are gone. So if my control panel goes out, that is it. The board that is being replaced now seems to be what takes the abuse and burns out. That one is now in short supply.

Oh well, for these days sixteen years is a pretty good life for an appliance. We only run it once or twice a week. With just two of us, we don't generate many dishes. The cats' dishes determine when it runs. We have sixteen of their dishes - that is four days worth for the four cats. I may get more of them since often we're running the dishwasher half full so the cats can have new dishes.

Yeah, I just had a discussion on a different forum about the Capacitor Plague that hit the computer industry a while back. I had a home built computer that was never reliable. Once I ran out of trouble shooting options, I took it to a tech friend of mine that had a shop. Not only were the capacitors on the mobo swollen and leaking, when he tried a different mobo, it wouldn't work reliably. He opened the power supply and found swollen leaking capacitors in it. That poor computer never stood a chance! I was relieved it wasn't my fault since I had built the thing, but it sure cost me a lot of confidence before we found the problems.

[RKP5637]

28. And those capacitors were probably not put in during manufacturing by accident! n/t

[Sneederbunk]

4. Did you get ice cube trays with that?

[a kennedy]

7. No.......we do have our own, and no egg holder either.....

[Donkees]

5. My refrigerator is 38 years old

[CrispyQ]

6. I bought these for my fridge & love them!

https://www.amazon.com/Copco-5220590-Non-Skid-Cabinet-Turntable/dp/B073WYP7RP/ref=sr_1_4


My fridge is old. Yeah, it's hard when you have to pay a whole lot more to get a whole lot less. My latest washer was 30% more than my old one & didn't have two key features that I loved.

[agingdem]

10. Try buying a car..

my car is 5 years old...low mileage but it's time to trade it in while it still has value...I know what I want so I go to the dealership...very few cars on the lot...supply chain issues..the salesman says they have one car that comes close, however, the sticker price on the window is no longer relevant...that l car was now selling $5000 over sticker...I'll wait...

[mitch96]

14. If you decide to buy, check out Carmax and Carvana instead of just trading it in..

I got a killer deal from Carvana on my 2017 with low miles..Almost $2000 more than the dealer quoted. I asked the dealer to match it and he said he could not...
Watch out for the "out the door" price quote. The dealers have a habit of adding on "fees" they "forgot" to add in.. The last dealer I dealt with kept on adding fees for bogus shit.
A $300."disposition fee" for the trade in car... I HAD NO TRADE IN..
Your best weapon is to walk out the door if anything looks fishy. Drives them nuts.
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[hunter]

11. When I was a kid our family lived a year without a refrigerator...

... so I know it's possible.

My wife and I had a full size refrigerator that quit working at a bad time, when we were still overwhelmed with medical bills. I bought a little refrigerator of the sort you see in dorm rooms and motel rooms. I liked that a lot. It made our kitchen look so much bigger and it made my grocery shopping so much easier. Nope, can't buy that, no room in the fridge.

There's a forgotten universe of foods that can be kept in the cupboard.

My wife hated the small fridge even though I'm the one who does more than 90% of the cooking and grocery shopping.

We bought a full sized refrigerator as soon as we could afford it. I don't even like to think about how much it cost. I won't even pay that much for my cars.

Honestly, I never expected to own a refrigerator that dispensed cold water and ice without opening the doors, but now we have one.

[pandr32]

12. It likely has cheap plastic shelves, too

I had a GE Hotpoint in 1991. French door. I moved to WA State with it in 2000. It was the main fridge until we built a new house and moved in in 2006. We used the fridge as our second one and it worked perfectly until the year before we we moved here to Hawaii in 2016. It had glass shelves and none of the interior compartments ever broke.
Since then we have used 3 fridges. 3!!!!!!!!!! Each one is crappier than the last and more expensive. Our latest already has a broken shelf and it is a year old.

[brush]

13. Home warranties will fix fridges or replace it. With some...

warranty companies you have to specify that you want the refrigerator covered when you contract with them.

I had Old Republic for years and thought they did a good job until my fridge went out and they wouldn't fix it because I didn't specify refrigerator repair when I contracted with them. I immediately quit them when they gave me that BS. Of all the appliances in a home, the fridge is the most important so who would think one had to say I want fridge coverage when contracting with a warranty company?

That is so low down for a company to do that. They know exactly what they're doing with that clause because fridges do go out and they are the most expensive to replace if necessary.

[Midnight Writer]

15. When they moved the Motorola plant out of the country, conservatives said it was good because...

refrigerators and appliances would be much cheaper, benefiting all the American consumers.

Prices would drop, they told us. Cheap foreign labor was good for us, they said.

Instead, union jobs were eliminated and prices kept rising.

Wonder where all that extra money that "we" saved on cheap labor went?

[a kennedy]

29. I don't hesitate to say a 3rd home, an airplane, 3 new cars, vacations in expensive places.....

🤬 🤬 🤬

[RainCaster]

16. Our fridge is 30+ yo

We keep fixing it because a new one is so expensive. Replaced compressor and icemaker, keeps on running.

[a kennedy]

18. Damn, I'm starting to think that's what we should have done......damn, this new one is making

noises I’m not used to either. Damn. I want my old one back. It’s got a funny high pitched hum. My husband can’t hear it, so I’ll be hearing that high pitch for forever. Just damn.

[RainCaster]

19. Our fridge is really expensive

Subzero 532, cost us $7k in 1990, more than $16k now.

[Ahpook]

23. I would suggest used in the future

I found a place that sells used appliances for very reasonable prices. It's scratch and dent sometimes, and assume from corporate apartments?!

We purchased a fridge that cost $2500 new in 2015 for just over $600 used. It has performed perfectly for 4 years now. It is the double door, ice maker with water in the door, lights, etc.

Why not?

On edit: There was a scratch on the side, but who cares? It works fine, and the scratch is next to the wall it sits in.

[MissB]

17. what the heck?

I have a Bosch fridge on order - ordered in December don't need it until fall. It's super fancy in terms of fridges. Stainless steel, two compressors, stainless steel on the inside at the back, LED lighting, counter depth, 36" wide.

And it was $3k. Which I thought was reasonable for a Bosch. Certainly more than I want to spend ever on a fridge, but reasonable for what I'm getting.

I'd be furious to pay $2k for a basic white fridge. Ugh. I'm so sorry.

I have some friends that are trying to get a hot water heater. We had ours replaced last year to the tune of $1500. It seemed expensive at the time, but it had been almost twenty years since we've replaced one so I should've expected it to be more than $500. Our friend is using the same place, and the hot water heater is the same, but the price has nearly doubled in a year.

(really, really glad I ordered most of my appliances before Dec 31. The only one I haven't ordered yet hasn't changed price.)

[jmowreader]

20. I have that very fridge

You will absolutely love it.

[MissB]

21. Good to hear!

It was the only one Dh and I felt was worth the price. Sub zero fridges were definitely not in the budget.

I have no cabinets at the moment but I very much look forward to getting the new fridge. Hoping that everything arrives roughly on time.

[jmowreader]

22. The dual compressor is REAL sweet

Because the refrigerator and freezer are on separate compressor circuits, you will never have to choose between ice cream that's too soft and milk that's frozen. And that's a slight problem...because the Bosch can freeze food hard enough to drive nails with, without damaging your lettuce in the process, it will take 24 hours for dinner to thaw out enough to cook. (Trust me: I've had to make SO many quick trips to the supermarket for food that isn't harder than tool steel.) So...decide what you want to eat tomorrow while you're pulling what you'll eat today out of the fridge to cook.

I considered Sub-Zero for about two minutes - I definitely had cash on hand to afford it. But then I thought, "for this money I can either buy one refrigerator, or the entire kitchen." Because I built my own cabinets and laid my own tile, I was able to get some REALLY fine appliances for the same money as one refrigerator.

Something else you probably should know: If you have a door open, your ice and water dispenser will stop working. It's supposed to do that. On Thanksgiving my brother was trying to get ice and my niece tried getting something out of the fridge. "Hey! Why can't I get any ice?" "Just close the door. It'll go back to normal."