GE Refrigerators - Don't Buy Them!

Have you ever enacted blog revenge before?

What is blog revenge you ask? Well, according to MotR's dictionary of blogger speak, "blog revenge" is defined as the posting of information to one's blog to retaliate against a company for giving the blogger poor service. Bloggers typically engage in blog revenge after receiving crappy service in a restaurant, from a department store, or really anytime that someone has ticked a blogger off. Often, bloggers will enact this revenge in the format of an "open letter" post. Blog revenge may seem petty but it feels damn good.

As you can see from the title of my post (crafted carefully so as to ensure maximum Google hits from people who may be considering purchasing this appliance), this post is dedicated to getting blog revenge on General Electric for selling me a LEMON of a refrigerator.

I am particularly peeved about this because the refrigerator is only a year and a half old. I bought it from Home Depot. It's a stainless steel side-by-side with a water and ice dispenser in the door.

Anyway, the thing just had a complete meltdown.

It wasn't like a small, little problem. No, the entire muthafrickin motherboard blew up. The motherboard is like the computer brain of the refrigerator. We realized there was a problem when my husband came home several days ago and found a pool of water underneath our refrigerator.

That would be a large pool of water on our brand new hardwood floors installed only days earlier.

(As an aside, I remember asking the flooring installer about the downsides of putting hardwood in a kitchen. He said that with the new water-resistant finishes, it would withstand spills really well so not to worry. The only caveat, he said, is if our refrigerator were leak or something. With a fairly new refrigerator, we figured we didn't need to worry. Our bad.)

So once the motherboard blew, it created a chain reaction in the fridge causing two other essential components of the fridge to break, and within two days, the entire refrigerator and freezer had stopped working.

This all culminated the day we brought the baby home from the hospital. Nice.

I figure that more than 200 dollars worth of food was spoiled. And, of course, the refrigerator is no longer under warranty since it was over a year old. So the nice people at GE were happy to come out for $100+/hour plus a visit fee to fix their crappy refrigerator for us.

Of course, they wanted to know if we had a warranty on it. And we don't. And you know why? Because I think that warranties are a crock of shit. Why should we, as consumers, have to buy a separate warranty for ANYTHING? I refuse. Companies should be making quality products and standing behind them by providing at least a 5-year warranty free of charge. Otherwise, it's like they're saying, "Hey, we want you to pay top dollar for our stuff because it's the best, but you should also buy a warranty just in case it's defective." WTF? If it's defective, they should be paying US for the inconvenience of having to get it fixed.

So, next time you're in the market for a new refrigerator, skip over GE just in case. Unless of course you want to risk paying hundreds of dollars to fix your fridge a year and a half after you buy it.

And to all the random Googlers who may find this post, if you think my fridge is an exception, think again. Check out all of these complaints about GE refrigerators. I wish I read these before I wasted my money.