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Default life cycle of new GE appliances (ranges)

On Feb 19, 10:19*am, DManzaluni > wrote:
> Does anyone know when GE revamps their Profile models please? I need
> to buy a range and it seems that the PGB918SEM is the only real
> contender: *There is a Maytag with a double GAS oven (for some
> inexplicable reason the second oven on this GE gas range is electric)
> but it seems to lack significant features.
>
> My concern is that this model has been on the market for a few years
> and I understand they revamp their range cosmetically every year or
> so. *With minor revamps of the features every few models. And this one
> is suddenly being heavily discounted and offerred with hundred dollar
> rebates. (not real rebates: You have to buy more than one qualifying
> product)
>
> I am wondering whether they will suddenly offer a model with a second
> gas oven five minutes after I have spent a ton of dough re-wiring my
> whole kitchen to accomodate this electric oven (at the minute the fuse
> blows every time we use the microwave for more than a few minutes with
> almost anything else around the whole flat turned on)
>
> [My present range is also a GE Profile and the glass top suddenly
> shattered and I discovered that replacement costs about three times
> what the whole unit is worth]


My my, arent we in a tissy, over a range.