Years ago I was at the checkout and was asked if I wanted to purchase a warranty. I was buying a toaster, coffee pot, drill or some other small appliance. It stopped me dead cold. There was already a warranty. Did I want to extend it? NO! It better last that long without it or I’m not buying another one. That worked then because there were manufacturers still producing products that would last, even though they would cast a little more. But that alternative doesn’t exist anymore. Paying mote for an alternative is still purchasing junk.
Oh, and that extended warranty, they already did the math or they wouldn’t be trying to sell it to you. Save your money and put it in a replacement fund.
So our incomes are not keeping pace and our expenditures are increasing. Is there a graph that’ll show me when this is all going to fall apart? It certainly isn’t sustainable the way it doesn’t work now. Can’t have a consumer economy if no one has enough resources to consume.
I had a Maytag stack washer and dryer that lasted 20 Plus years in the last seven I’m on my third washing and dryer set the Samsung expired just after the warranty. The Washer would’ve cost 700 $800 so we bought another Stacked upright and that lasted under the warranty, but they could not service it so we got a new one AIG would fix this
Years ago I was at the checkout and was asked if I wanted to purchase a warranty. I was buying a toaster, coffee pot, drill or some other small appliance. It stopped me dead cold. There was already a warranty. Did I want to extend it? NO! It better last that long without it or I’m not buying another one. That worked then because there were manufacturers still producing products that would last, even though they would cast a little more. But that alternative doesn’t exist anymore. Paying mote for an alternative is still purchasing junk.
Oh, and that extended warranty, they already did the math or they wouldn’t be trying to sell it to you. Save your money and put it in a replacement fund.
So our incomes are not keeping pace and our expenditures are increasing. Is there a graph that’ll show me when this is all going to fall apart? It certainly isn’t sustainable the way it doesn’t work now. Can’t have a consumer economy if no one has enough resources to consume.
Whoa! What a racket.
Excellent article. It's painfully obvious why the Maytag Repair man disappeared as well.
I had a Maytag stack washer and dryer that lasted 20 Plus years in the last seven I’m on my third washing and dryer set the Samsung expired just after the warranty. The Washer would’ve cost 700 $800 so we bought another Stacked upright and that lasted under the warranty, but they could not service it so we got a new one AIG would fix this
A common experience. Appliances now seem to be designed to fail.
The news is terrible on YouTube and in the whole auto industry.