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Ed Pawlowski Ed Pawlowski is offline
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Default Fridge Runs Excessively

On 6/28/2016 8:41 AM, trader_4 wrote:


A - They diagnose it and its going to cost $400+ to fix.

B - They charge you $125 and tell you it's not worth fixing.

Is A worth it on a 20 year old fridge? If it's a $10K Viking fridge
I can see it. If it's a fridge you can get for $1000? And factor
in that a new fridge is probably going to save you maybe $50 a year
in operating cost, it will look brand new, have new features, etc.


Similar experience with a washing machine. I paid $85 for him to tell
me to buy a new one. That was cheaper than average. Fix would have been
$500.

A while back I replace an old fridge with a newer one that was 40%
larger and electric bell wend down $10 a month.