I just threw away a Frigidaire window unit that looked really cool but it barely worked after 2 years and they just deleted it from their smart control app - like straight up removed it as I was using it and was like “oh so sorry not supported anymore!”
I own a microwave by them and I am looking to replace it now, even though it works reasonably well. Fuck Frigidaire right in their stupid fucking asses.
I wouldn’t go buy a new microwave just to spite the brand. For one, Frigidaire isn’t significantly less reliable than the other major appliance brands - they have noticeably worse “fit and finish” in their build quality (I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Frigidaire Pro badge that was on straight, ever. Their french door freezer doors will not line up with even perfectly adjusted fridge section doors. etc.) but also typically a lower price point. Just about all appliance companies make some shit-boxes - from stats I’ve tracked at work, the common consumer brands in the US have roughly 10% failure rate for the first year, and about 30% failure rate over 5 years. Those rates stay pretty consistent between brands (as soon as someone looks like they are going to upset the balance, they release a fancy new design for an ice maker or something that just shits all over the bed and has to be 'service-bulletin’ed to consumer reports hell and the stats wander back into line).
Basically, if the thing is working now, I’d keep it until either it doesn’t work or you just really want/need some feature it doesn’t have. Buying a new appliance is just going to be giving money to a different-but-still-shitty brand.
I love how much shade this throws at Maytag - the brand that will always be the best in the eyes of idiot boomers no matter how obviously trash they become.
Maytag makes decent dishwashers and refrigerators, at least compared to the rest of the crap on the market. I assume Frigidaire is the same since I think it’s basically the same company.
Maytag and Frigidaire are separate (Frigidaire is part of Electrolux family, Maytag is part of Whirlpool, as is KitchenAid). We hardly carry Maytag kitchen appliances because most of them are just re-skinned Whirlpool products with some extra dollary-do’s tacked on for the name (and especially in dishwashers, the KA is just better if you want Wpl family stuff). They aren’t bad, but when you can get a KA for a tiny amount more and get more features, or get the whirlpool for significantly less with nearly the same features…
Their laundry (which is where their name still carries a ton of weight with hillbillies that remember their commercials from the late 90s) is absolute hot garbage.
Frigidaire makes trash HVAC equipment and the company is so poorly managed in surprised they don’t just call themselves Maytag at this point
I just threw away a Frigidaire window unit that looked really cool but it barely worked after 2 years and they just deleted it from their smart control app - like straight up removed it as I was using it and was like “oh so sorry not supported anymore!”
I own a microwave by them and I am looking to replace it now, even though it works reasonably well. Fuck Frigidaire right in their stupid fucking asses.
I wouldn’t go buy a new microwave just to spite the brand. For one, Frigidaire isn’t significantly less reliable than the other major appliance brands - they have noticeably worse “fit and finish” in their build quality (I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Frigidaire Pro badge that was on straight, ever. Their french door freezer doors will not line up with even perfectly adjusted fridge section doors. etc.) but also typically a lower price point. Just about all appliance companies make some shit-boxes - from stats I’ve tracked at work, the common consumer brands in the US have roughly 10% failure rate for the first year, and about 30% failure rate over 5 years. Those rates stay pretty consistent between brands (as soon as someone looks like they are going to upset the balance, they release a fancy new design for an ice maker or something that just shits all over the bed and has to be 'service-bulletin’ed to consumer reports hell and the stats wander back into line).
Basically, if the thing is working now, I’d keep it until either it doesn’t work or you just really want/need some feature it doesn’t have. Buying a new appliance is just going to be giving money to a different-but-still-shitty brand.
I love how much shade this throws at Maytag - the brand that will always be the best in the eyes of idiot boomers no matter how obviously trash they become.
Maytag makes decent dishwashers and refrigerators, at least compared to the rest of the crap on the market. I assume Frigidaire is the same since I think it’s basically the same company.
Maytag and Frigidaire are separate (Frigidaire is part of Electrolux family, Maytag is part of Whirlpool, as is KitchenAid). We hardly carry Maytag kitchen appliances because most of them are just re-skinned Whirlpool products with some extra dollary-do’s tacked on for the name (and especially in dishwashers, the KA is just better if you want Wpl family stuff). They aren’t bad, but when you can get a KA for a tiny amount more and get more features, or get the whirlpool for significantly less with nearly the same features…
Their laundry (which is where their name still carries a ton of weight with hillbillies that remember their commercials from the late 90s) is absolute hot garbage.
Sounds like white labeling the cybertruck would be a great cultural fit for them.