Post #30622
2025-12-04 18:14 UTC
Replies (7)
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@avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2025-12-04 18:39
Good vid bur he’s falling a bit for the corporate propaganda that costs determine prices and that consumers have some power over price setting. Most firms maximize prices while minimizing costs. Consumers have especially little market power in a consolidated market like home appliances.
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@digital_man@lemmy.world 2025-12-04 18:48
planned obsolescence (pretty much the cause of so much crap)
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@gerowen@piefed.social 2025-12-04 19:51
I literally have clothes hanging on a line across the living room because our just out of warranty $1,000+ Samsung “smart dryer” died again a month after I replaced every sensor and the heating element, and I just don’t feel like taking it apart again to “maybe” find the problem. Before this we just had a plain white box from Maytag; easy to work on, cheap replacement parts. It was probably 30 years old when the motor seized and my wife asked for newer, fancier machines. Big mistake.
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@call_me_xale@lemmy.zip 2025-12-04 20:00
Capitalism.
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@network_switch@lemmy.ml 2025-12-04 21:30
From my memories, the price of appliances haven’t changed much in the last couple of decades. They maintain or increase margins with cheaper parts, less QA, looser performance tolerances while keeping the same sticker price. Whatever the quality sacrifice equivalent word for shrinkflation
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@Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 2025-12-05 03:38
Our fridge is only 13 months old and failed 2 days before thanksgiving. It was like pulling teeth getting out warranty servicer to do something about it. Yesterday it was finally repaired. Defroster seized up somehow. The fridge we had before this one was made in 1998 and it’s only failure was last year which was irreparable. Modern appliances are definitely less reliable.
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@Wander@sh.itjust.works 2025-12-05 12:42
I watched a good video on tool quality. It basically said the exact same old tool is better than the new tool now. But the new tool is priced much much less. When they compared it to a modern tool that was the same price or less it performed the same or better. People just want cheap things and companies want to make money. People need to buy quality and companies will get an incentive to build quality.