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"Edwin Pawlowski" > wrote:

> "sd" > wrote in message
>
> > Sears (still the top appliance retailer in the country) does
> > business with every major appliance manufacturer in the U.S.,
> > including Frigidaire (Electrolux, actually). If Frigidaire were such
> > bad news, Sears would drop them like a rock. Instead, they let
> > Frigidaire build their top-of-the-line gas range (Kenmore Elite).
> > I'd say Frigidaire is at least "good enough".
>
> I've been a part supplier to Frigidaire and we've made some of the parts for
> the Sears specified appliances. Sears is as big an appliance whore as any
> retailer. They are interested in profit, as is Frigidaire. As longs as you
> keep buying, they will keep selling. Your money, your choice, but it is not
> the brand I'd buy. I've been in their plants, worked with their engineers,
> designers, QC people.

*shrug* The Frigidaire products I own (washer, dryer, range) have
worked well over the last several years. The ultimate brand in any
category? No. But "good enough".

The Internet has made it far easier to pool the experiences of other
people with goods and services. Seems to me that if a product truly
has gone downhill, word gets around (Maytag, anyone?). Seems to me
that if Electrolux-sourced appliances were costing Sears in bad
publicity, warranty calls, and unhappy customers, Sears would
replace Electrolux with one of their other vendors, not promote them
to top-of-the-line. Whatever profit delta exists by sticking with a
poor product could not make up for the soft losses Sears would
experience.

So -- getting back to your original assertion -- who out there can
say credibly that Frigidaire "is in the bottom half of quality"?

sd