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delta_p_delta_x

> flood social media with targeted ads for some geoarbitraged thing that tiny startup found on AliExpress decided to sell DTC

This is a gem of a phrase. I'm going to use 'geoarbitrage' from now on.

I live in a place full of this sort of nonsense, such as resold Clevo ODM notebooks, overly-cheap 'desktop projectors', overly-cheap TVs, water purifiers, and even air-conditioners. Oh, and the 'advertisers' are typically skimpily-dressed young women barely in university.

I simply refuse to buy anything that isn't European, Korean, Taiwanese, or Japanese for home appliances and electronics.

Brands like Miele, Bosch, Samsung, LG, Sony, Brother, Nikon, Philips, Smeg, Liebherr... They're usually up to 2-3x as expensive as the equivalent on AliExpress, but the quality and service is unbeatable.

Funny, Kitchenaid and Wolf/Subzero are US made and most products I have owned from either are far superior to Japanese/Korean. For instance, my Samsun refrigerator is three years old now and has a poorly engineered ice maker that has been repaired twice, the light for freezer is now working intermittently, and the digital inverter with its obnoxious 10 year warranty sticker on the front of fridge is now is noisier than when it was brought into the house. I continue to use a kitchenaid dishwasher and microwave, 16 and 10 years old respectively, which still look and run amazing.

I never said anything at all about American brands; I simply don't get them where I live much (if at all). My LG refrigerator and dishwashers, Sharp microwave, and LG monitors + TV have all been working fairly well for several years.

That being said, personally dislike American brands but only because they usually advertise and use USC units, which make them hard to wrangle in a purely SI country.

I agree with the whole list except Samsung for appliances, I’ve had terrible experiences with them. I have a guy coming in for the 3rd time to fix my dishwasher - the first time he came in he found out the wrong chip was installed for this model

My mom has an old-ass IFB dishwasher (Indian brand) that has outlived two of my Bosch dishwashers (currently using a Miele). And it was half the price!

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