The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy

Re:The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy by Tomte on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @05:21AM (#16527984)

Only people with broken machines complain. That's why they seem "universally shit".

I've had my Bosch washing machine now for over ten years and there have been no repairs whatsoever, so far.

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Re:The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy by MrFantastic on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @08:14AM (#16528605)

Bosch is a great brand but it comes at a premium ( mine was $1200 ). I had to replace a $650 Frigidaire washing after 4 years.

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Re:The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy by mido22 on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @08:42AM (#16528762)

Reminds me of 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness in Discworld.

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Re:The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy by aiCeivi9 on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @11:02AM (#16529610)

Real world finally fixed that issue. While selecting cheapest product still gets you the worst one, spending money on more expensive one doesn't guarantee it will be any better.

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Re:The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy by antisthenes on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @12:38PM (#16530376)

I have a Frigidaire unit that's on its 10th year and works almost as new as far as I can tell.

For every vocal person with a broken unit, there are multiple people with working ones. These planned obsolescence debates are mostly pointless without actual data (case in point: arguing about WD vs Seagate before BackBlaze started publishing their data)

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