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[Bucwheat]

Anyone here a member,I am looking for reviews on a Samsung model#RS261MDPN Refrigerator. I have been looking at this model for several days and just saw some bad reviews on it on line. Love the look design and price but I now have doubts. Pleas help if you can.Our previous Kenmore model lasted 17 years with very little problems. :D

[Bucwheat]

Thanks for your help.

[Ol Timer]

Samsung RS261MD[WP] got a 45 of 100. PM me if you want more info.

[dwjz06]

Anyone here a member,I am looking for reviews on a Samsung model#RS261MDPN Refrigerator. I have been looking at this model for several days and just saw some bad reviews on it on line. Love the look design and price but I now have doubts. Pleas help if you can.Our previous Kenmore model lasted 17 years with very little problems. :D

Yes. Here you go. PM Sent

[Bucwheat]

Samsung RS261MD[WP] got a 45 of 100. PM me if you want more info.

Thanks for the help, DWJZ06 gave me all the info I needed. Thank you sir.

[mrvette]

Consumer Reports have been hysterically in bed with over seas junk for some decades now.....

I wouldn't trust them to recommend concrete off a truck....seriously....

crooked as a snake....BTDT, seen them, know them well.....


:dance::sadangel:

[Joecooool]

When I make an appliance purchase, I usually read the reviews on Amazon.

[RedLS1GTO]

Buy GE... the ONLY appliance manufacture bringing jobs to the US rather than sending them overseas. Also a huge effort to source American companies, even if the cost is higher. GE side x sides are manufactured in Bloomington, Indiana.

I have torn down almost every model of every non-industrial refrigerator on the market and there are very few that I would actually put in a house from a quality standpoint. Samsung is not 1 of them. Their sealed systems specifically are horribly cheaply constructed. Of course you can't see this sitting in a store. The stainless is also a very low grade on most models (don't remember specifically for this one).

Take my advice or leave it, but appliances... especially refrigerators... are 1 thing I know something about.

[mrvette]

When I make an appliance purchase, I usually read the reviews on Amazon.

Knowing appliances in and out, I stick with the simplest controlled cheepest and usually Whirlpool appliances....

under any name, I can recognize the construction practices pretty good, courst tomorrow is another day....

but I would buy used, FAR before anything NEW these daze....

simpler, cheeper, works forever, lightening proof, :seasix::hurray:

[RedLS1GTO]

There is a simple problem with online customer based reviews like those on the retailer's sites... (not the head to head consumer reports type)

Most people reviewing something like a refrigerator have absolutely no basis of comparison other than what is most likely a 15 year old worn out dinosaur. ANYTHING new is going to seem fantastic. Do you think that the average reviewer online notices compressor cycle time, what stainless alloy is used, noise level compared to other models, heat emission, evaporator and condenser design...and on and on and on?

Hell no.

It is the same as car reviews. To someone used to driving a Geo Metro, I'm sure a Civic seems like a rocket. When someone who owns Corvettes gets behind the wheel... the Civic is painfully slow. It is all a matter of perspective and with things like appliances, most people have little to nothing to compare to realistically.

The only thing they can review with any accuracy is if something breaks. In that case, common sense says that units with more sales will have more negative reviews, even if the SCR is actually better. It is nearly impossible to make an accurate judgement based on internet reviews.

Just my $.04