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[–] 18 points 1 year ago (5 children)

This is some bullshit. You can go to Home Depot or Lowe's right now and get yourself a pretty decent washing machine for $600 that will last you a decade.

The only people who end up in the situation like OP are the people who buy overly cheap products or overly gimmicky products, and then wonder why they don't work as well as the standard products. If you buy a $150 washing machine from AliExpress or buy a washing machine that requires wifi, then don't be surprised if they stopped working not too long after you bought them.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

    I think you could maybe use less time on the Internet. Social media has a nasty habit of telling everyone that everything they hear is a code for something else; spend too long reading that junk and it’ll convince you that everyone in the world is a secret bigot.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    Lol, considering I heard it all the time growing up in the 80s you might be a bit off on your assessment.

    I grew up in a middle class suburb where the it was used as an insult kinda like " poor people are poor because they are stupid"

    She grew up in the Ozarks and they used it more as a " we got ways to make do"

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    One of these days I hope to eventually own a home. When I do, I want to buy one of the industrial-ass washing machines and dryers they use in laundromat and hotels. I'm sure it will be very expensive, but I firmly believe in "buy once, cry once". I want a laundry machine that is built to run 24/7 for 10+ years. Used at a personal pace, it should last forever.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It will also use much more energy and water, because they're built to wash extremely quickly, efficiency be damned.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Honestly buy something that is good quality but doesn't have stupid shit, do I need my washing machine and my toaster talking to each other? No but the stripped down no frills ones are normally built to be as absolutely cheap as possible.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Damn. So if you have money, you get decent products. Thanks for the great reminder.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    More expensive doesn't necessarily mean better. You could easily spend $2000 on some "smart" washing machine, but that doesn't mean it's better than a standard $500 washing machine. I would argue that a lot of these gimmicks actually make the products worse.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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).

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Dunno.

    My samsung washing machine is now 9 years old with zero problems.

    I think its mostly a bias. If manufactorer-A sells 10 apliances and manufactorer-B sells only one, its means repair people should also see 10 machines from A for every machine from B

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    Every single one of my Samsung appliances work great. Most notably my washing machine and dryer. Never had a single hickup in the ~6 years I've had them. A lot of the time people have issues with stuff, is because they don't take care of their machine, and expect an appliance will run reliably for 10+ years with 0 maintenance. They don't.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    There’s some people in this thread who’ve had shocking bad luck with their appliances and think it’s normal. The only appliances I’ve ever had break in the last few decades were either already decades old or broke because I did something dumb.

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