Post #30708
2025-12-04 18:39 UTC
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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@Krudler@lemmy.world 2025-12-05 00:33
I haven’t watched this video, but based on your comment I don’t think I’ll bother. It is my sincere understanding that the degradation of quality is from the companies trying to leverage extended warranties as the true profit center of appliances.
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@123@programming.dev 2025-12-07 22:21
He has other videos where he has explained that you can’t trust any brand any longer and you should not buy based on previous brand experiences alone but investigate individual models (and even revisions to them since it was a known trick to change them after the initial release to make them cheaper). Not sure if he mentioned it on this video since at the moment I’m not in the market for an appliance, but his takes seemed reasonable.