On Sun, 15 May 2016 13:13:07 -0500, Mark Lloyd
wrote:

On 05/15/2016 06:33 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 5/15/2016 6:51 AM, Steve Stone wrote:
You don't seem to be able to purchase a washer on the Sears web site
without also purchasing a mandatory set of stainless supply hoses for
$31. Not a bad idea for many. Not a good idea for those who already own
stainless hoses or better.


Why would you buy from Sears? They may be out of business before you
even get the machine installed.

Unless you live two hundred miles from town, go to a good local
appliance dealer. Most are priced about the same and have better service.

I bought my washer and dryer from a good local appliance dealer. They
were very helpful when the dryer failed after just a week.

Interestingly, when the old salesman asked my for my phone number he
wrote it down as just 5 digits. It's been more than 20 years since we
had 5-digit dialing (it went away when we got ESS in about 1990).

That's great.

My mother moved from Indianapolis to a town of 50,000 in 1945. The
operator would answer and she would give her an exchange and 4 numbers
to call. After a while the operator said to her, "You don't have to
say OLiver 2, ma'am. They're all OLiver 2. "