Anyone here ever bought a refrigerator?

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

Can you find out what brand they bought from Best Buy that gave them so much trouble?

I'm curious if it was an "LG".

Dad says it was a Samsung. I didn't know Samsung made refrigerators.

Anyway, that one needed three 'brain' transplants, too. The electronics were crap, and it kept screwing up the temp.

 

[DaveMage]

Dad says it was a Samsung. I didn't know Samsung made refrigerators.

Anyway, that one needed three 'brain' transplants, too. The electronics were crap, and it kept screwing up the temp.

Thanks.

If it were my dad, I'd half suspect he bought a Samsung TV and expected it to BE a refrigerator....

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

Thanks.

If it were my dad, I'd half suspect he bought a Samsung TV and expected it to BE a refrigerator....

Heh. My dad and I are a lot alike with this kind of thing, with one major exception. We both obsessively research this kind of purchase for months. The difference is that I either buy what I decided on, or wait if I can't get it at a price I like. Dad will find something on sale, disregard all the research, and get it because it was cheap.

Not that fridge was cheap; it was a couple grand, I think. What was aggravating to him wasn't the problems, it was the utter, utter lack of support from Best Buy. They kept giving him the run-around, to the point where he finally called Samsung directly and talked them into sending him the part. When he had it in his hands, he called Best Buy back, who proceded to once again BS him and tell him the part was on a six-week backorder or somesuch. At which point he said, 'Oh, no problem, I have one *right here*.'

The worst part was when they kept insisting the icemaker was an optional part. I'm still at a loss as to how something that, if its not there, results in a gaping hole in the door, is 'optional' for a refrigerator. They didn't make that model without it, you couldn't decide six months later you wanted to add it if it didn't come with it. There wasn't anything 'optional' about it.

 

[mcrow]

Well, we had to get a new one last year.

We got a Maytag for around $600 @ Menards. It was ~20 Cubic feet of capacity. Top freezer.

We didn't want a ice and water dispensers, so that cut down on price.

Factors:

• Kitchen space- how big of space in your kitchen do you have
• Features- Want ice and water dispers?
• Color
• Internal layout--- will the drawers and shelves hold what you buy properly?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

For $2,000, that fridge better come with Jack Frost inside to cook you dinner and clean your kitchen. We've bought two refrigerators as we've moved around the country, and $500 ones from Sears (with an ice-maker for my wife, to avoid bizarre marital arguments) have been more than fine.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Oh, and my brother had to pay extra money for the brushed stainless steel on his fancy fridge to be able to hold magnets onto its surface. Given that most people at home use fridges as message centers and not the center of Architectural Digest photos, don't forget to ask about this if you get a fancy made-for-TV-characters fridge.

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

I just got a clarification; the one with the electronics problems was the Samsung, the one with the required 'optional' ice-maker was an LG replacement Best Buy gave him when they finally decided the Samsung was a lemon.

So, I guess the moral of the story is stay away from Samsung, LG and Best Buy.

 

[mcrow]

For $2,000, that fridge better come with Jack Frost inside to cook you dinner and clean your kitchen. We've bought two refrigerators as we've moved around the country, and $500 ones from Sears (with an ice-maker for my wife, to avoid bizarre marital arguments) have been more than fine.

Yeah, the most I have ever paid for fridge was $600 and that one costed an extra $100 because it was bisque instead of white. Wife had to have bisque because, ya know, it matches the kitchen.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

Oh, and my brother had to pay extra money for the brushed stainless steel on his fancy fridge to be able to hold magnets onto its surface. Given that most people at home use fridges as message centers and not the center of Architectural Digest photos, don't forget to ask about this if you get a fancy made-for-TV-characters fridge.

Wow! Until you said this and I looked it up I had no idea that the stainless used on appliances might not hold a magnet, I assumed all stainless would.

Learned my one thing for the day, now I can cruise through the rest.

 

[kenobi65]

So, I guess the moral of the story is stay away from Samsung, LG and Best Buy.

Well, Samsung and LG are both Korean brands, and I don't know how long they've been making fridges. Go with the classics.