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Comments (22)"So I'm guessing Samsung are filtering reviews, and actually have a bunch of dweebs shilling for them and writing those ridiculously lengthy sunny reviews. "The concept of weeding out negative reviews is downright sneaky. "I'd be interested in taking this battle further, though; just no idea how." bubblyjock: You are making statements without evidence and appear to be obsessed with this. If you look at the reviews of other Samsung products on the Samsung website you will see that there are plenty of negative reviews. Perhaps your review wasn't posted. Perhaps there is a review process before posting. Perhaps what you wrote violates Samsung's policy and was discarded. You don't know. And no, I am not shilling for Samsung but something is amiss if you are trying to "battle" Samsung over something so trivial. It's not as if there aren't other review sites available to potential purchasers....See MoreAre GE Cafe appliances worth it?
Comments (53)We had a bad experience. Our dishwasher was broken on arrival. It didn't work right out of the box. It smelled like mold. Repairing it was a nightmare. It took over a month. Here are some warnings/things I wish I had known based on our experience: 1. You may not be able to return your dishwasher due to it being defective or non-operational. If your dishwasher is—like ours was—defective right out of the box, the procedure for resolving that issue is for GE to send out technicians to repair it, often using parts that themselves are not new and may require weeks to arrive. You can only return your faulty dishwasher AFTER the technician declares it unserviceable. How many months of hand-washing your dishes will that take? 2. Cafe’s return policy ONLY applies to dishwashers purchased directly on their website. If you buy it through a designer for a discount, you may be (like we were) completely ineligible for a return. If you do buy it from the website, you are given a 7-day return policy (in which you need to pay for return shipping) or 30 days in which you can return it for store credit minus a 25% restocking and pickup fee. And after 30 days, your dishwasher is unreturnable and unreplaceable. In the event your dishwasher is defective, it could take you (as it took us) 2-4 WEEKS to get a technician to even look at your dishwasher. This means that, BY THE TIME A TECHNICIAN ARRIVES TO TELL YOU YOUR DISHWASHER IS DEFECTIVE, IT MAY ALREADY BE TOO LATE TO RETURN IT. Catch-22. 3. Service quality is disappointing. Cafe uses subcontractors to deal with service calls. If your dishwasher breaks down or is defective, this means that you may be dealing with a company that is slow, unreliable in showing up for appointments, and may have technicians who are not knowledgeable. As was the case with our technician (from RR appliance in Miami), they may have NEVER EVEN SEEN a Cafe dishwasher before. And these are technicians who were scheduled through Cafe’s own customer service department. 4. Cafe ONLY stands by its product for 1 year after purchase. After that, your warranty expires. Given that there seems to be quality control issues, if you aspire to have a working dishwasher for, say 6 years, you will probably want to price into your purchase the cost of an extended warranty. At the time of this review, the cost for a 5-year warranty from Assurant (…it starts after your factory warranty expires) is $457.75. 5. And…while we are on the topic of extra costs, it may be helpful to price in the cost to you of a dishwasher that is non-operational because you are waiting for a technician to arrive or for parts to get shipped in. In our case, we had to hand wash dishes for over a month before we were able to successfully run a single load in our brand-new, right-out-of-the-box dishwasher. That is 1/12 OF THE ENTIRE WARRANTEE LIFE of the product that we spent hand washing dishes because Cafe/GE doesn’t have the infrastructure it needs to provide fast, efficient service for its products. On the plus side, it is a beautiful-looking dishwasher. And if you (like we did) got it with the matching fridge, range, and microwave, you are pretty much stuck with it....See MoreHack job: Is this thing worth saving or should I throw in the towel
Comments (18)MXK3 . You got a onr major pro on you side ....right. It's established. Root system is sufficient enough to hold the stem/blooms in place without any stake. On my LL standards, it took a solid 3-4 years of staking to get it a place where it can hold the heavy *top*. In year 3-4, even had to stake and put some tension as it was -started to lean- quite a bit in the direction of the sun. On the left stem in the pic, if I saw a bud on the lower portion of it, I would consider cutting off the 2 laterals and hoping you get nice strong growth coming out of the thicker stem. Maybe -forget about the blooms this year* and depening on new growth, cut the stems back in half mid-season to get additional set of stems for more framework. If you get a bloom later in the season, great. If not, LL trees IMO are not expensive at the nursery and obviously has a full rounded branching....although it will require staking for a few years so that the root system can basically hold the hold thing in bloom Side note - for years, I've always looked at it as the the energy always tends to flow to the top and all growth will always focus as high as the tops of the stems are. But every now and then....not often, will I get a new stem come out from way below the stem on any of branching (new stem almost as down as the top of the leader). For those in this thread, how often have you seen new stems spawn from lower older stems. when existing multiple laterlas, new blooms etc exist on the same stem....See MoreWhen are home renovations no longer worth the investment?
Comments (9)Good crystal balls are hard to come by these days. You might check with a Realtor to get their take on your specific location. I'm a big fan of Hardiplank - it looks great and holds paint (or prefinished) and will still in 10 years. I agree that you probably want to do what works for you now... not so much trying to predict the future sales trend. I also agree that replacement/update is always a good opportunity to consider an upgrade if there's a clearly established demand. However, most remodeling projects do not ever pay for themselves in resale value - and the more "custom" they are (expensive and tailored to individual tastes) the lower the payback....See Morecolleenoz
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