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Default New refrigerator

On Saturday, September 20, 2014 11:51:55 AM UTC-7, George L wrote:
> A few weeks ago we bought a new refrigerator. After a lot of looking
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> around we decided we wanted a French Door model with lower freezer. Ice
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> maker is a must. We shopped our favorite appliance dealer and found this:
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> http://www.samsung.com/us/appliances...RF28HFEDBSR/AA
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> The place we buy appliances is a local company that specializes in
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> selling floor models, discontinued models, scratch and dent, overstocks,
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> etc. They also sell refurbished used appliances. So far we have bought
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> a stove, washing machine and now this refrigerator.
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> This unit is selling at Sears for around $1800. Our refrigerator is
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> brand new, has two small dents in the door (one way up high, the other
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> way down low). All the protective factory film was still on the unit
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> when we got it. We paid $750, including tax and delivery and set up....
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> and removal of our old unit... which they will probably clean up, check
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> out and sell for around $150.
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> The unit is so big that all the doors had to come off to get it into the
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> house... and I had to remove the front door.
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> It is probably too big for our kitchen, but we tend to buy things in
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> bulk when they are on sale. We will be remodeling our kitchen this
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> Fall... should probably have done that first, but this was too good a
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> deal to pass up.
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> Digital controls... fridge is set at 36 degrees and the freezer at 6
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> degrees. I know they recommend Zero degrees but Ice cream gets too hard
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> to serve at that temperature. Everything else besides the ice cream
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> degrees is rock hard at 6 degrees, so that is where we set it.
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> Three weeks and everything works perfectly. The ice maker is a bit
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> loud, but so was our old one. I like the LED lighting. I find I am
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> still opening both doors when I want something from the refrigerator.
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> With time, we'll get everything settled in place and only have to open
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> one door to grab what we want.
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> We are pretty happy with this purchase.
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> George L


What a great deal. Got a picture you could post? I would love to have a new refrigerator but....not yet.