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dkersten:
Refrigerator died yesterday.. just went grocery shopping, so I lost around $300 in frozen foods. Fridge is 15 years old so rather than repair I think it is time to buy new, but I can't seem to find a brand that looks reliable. Lucky Goldstar (LG) is still a cheap VCR company to me, I always see $35 microwaves and $15 vcrs when I see that brand. Plus I took a risk with an LG dryer recently and I am less than impressed. Samsung seems popular, but I can't find a single "top ten" review with a Samsung in it. I have heard horror stories about Maytag, Whirlpool, and Frigidaire, but you never know if that is just people who had a bum unit and were unlucky or if the brands are truly crap. When looking to spend $2-3k without the luxury of spending the time to research properly, it really sucks. I need something soon or what food I have that is still good will be trash. Unfortunately I can't eat 10 lbs of chicken breasts, 25 hamburger patties, ten lbs of burritos, and 12 lbs of hamburger meat tonight, so my two week stock of frozen meats is mostly going to go to waste. It is rapidly approaching room temperature and I am pretty sure refreezing it is a bad idea at this point. I knew the other shoe would drop sooner or later. At least this time it is only money.

pbj:
Grill it all, bag it, and put it in ice chests, dude.

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2014/10/top-refrigerator-brands-in-consumer-reports-tests/index.htm

Vigo:
I personally stay away from korean brands when it comes to appliances and electronics. The have a history of using components with a more limited lifespan in order to offer more features for the cost. I would go with them in a heartbeat for an appliance in a house I was planning on moving out of in 5 years, because other than the stunted lifespan, they are good.

+1 to PBJ. Most my food lasted through a 2 & 1/2 day power outage last week, ice chests the second night for anything I was overly worried about, grilled a lot of meat, and even some of the ice cream lived through the outage.

BadMouth:

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Every single thing I've bought because of it was rated highly by consumer reports has fallen short of expectations. I rely on amazon reviews almost exclusively now.

I just spent four days at a motorcycle rally sleeping on an air mattress with a slow leak. Two hours into the four hours of sleep I got each night, some part of my body would be bottoming out and touching the ground. I felt fine in the morning though.

Slept on my consumer reports #1 rated inner coil spring mattress last night and my back hurt like hell this morning...same as it does every morning. I should have returned that thing in the 30 return window.

Same experience with trash bags, appliances, etc.

dkersten:
Went with this one:
http://www.whirlpool.com/kitchen-1/refrigeration-2/refrigerators-3/-[WRX988SIBM]-1021865/WRX988SIBM/
Got it from Lowes for $2400, added the 5 year warranty (which I normally don't do) for $150, but also got a Lowes credit card that I will cancel next month after paying for this which gave me another 5% off, so that covered $125 of the warranty. I gotta pick it up though, so it's good that my little pickup runs well, lol.

Warranty: Normally I avoid in store warranties, but there are so many "horror story" reviews of refrigerators bad out of the box or failing in the first few months that, even with a brand that my buddy who repairs appliances for a living recommended, it made sense to throw that warranty on. If I didn't, I would end up with a bad compressor in a year and have a $400 bill and a ton of food all thawed out again. This way I will never end up having an issue (because if you have warranty you almost never need it, lol).

Of course, now I need to replace all my other appliances to match the stainless, lol. Oh well, microwave is as old as the fridge, and was eyeing a new one anyway. Ranges aren't that expensive, and it is a good excuse to make the jump to gas. Dishwasher and sink.. ah hell, I'm a guy, so who cares, right?

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