Sometimes, you favor or avoid a brand cause you don't like the company. If I
read a Consumer Reports, and Sears was the only A+++ rated range, I'd still
buy some other brand.

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"LouB" wrote in message
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Stormin Mormon wrote:
I don't remember you writing if you wanted gas or electric. I'd try to see
if Consumer Reports has a free online section. Have a look at that. I'd
try
to avoid anything complicated. Electronic circuits tend to go bad. Having
done some appliance repair, the parts house guys call GE "Generally
Expensive". Their replacement parts are higher cost than other brands. I
also avoid Sears, I personally don't like the company.

But some Kenmore stuff gets high marks from Consumer Reports (which are
in the library).

Lou

On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:35:25 -0500, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:

Sometimes, you favor or avoid a brand cause you don't like the company. If I
read a Consumer Reports, and Sears was the only A+++ rated range, I'd still
buy some other brand.


There are some pluses with Sears. They guarantee most of the products
they sell, I found Sears has available parts online. Kenmore is not
high-end quality, but often above average. I have seen brand-quality
vary over time so what was good 10-20 years ago may still not be good.

Shears used to, and probably still uses off spec parts. So if you want a set
of breaker points for a Sears Tecumseh engine, the ordinary Tecumseh points
won't work. I'm sure they do a lot of things like that to keep the parts
traffic coming back. But, not *MY* parts traffic.

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Christopher A. Young
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"Phisherman" wrote in message
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There are some pluses with Sears. They guarantee most of the products
they sell, I found Sears has available parts online. Kenmore is not
high-end quality, but often above average. I have seen brand-quality
vary over time so what was good 10-20 years ago may still not be good.