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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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