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Crap crap and more crap. The quality control on GE fridges is absolutely the worst of all worst. It's possible because you are working with the economy of scale that you don't see the typical problems that individuals run into. But I went through 5 in a row and every single one had a problem. Switched to LG and never looked back

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LG with their faulty Linear Compressors and craft ice makers that are doomed to fail? The one with the big lawsuit for their faulty fridges?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y54QbkCtFE4

I have an LG fridge. I like it. I think the linear compressor tech is cool, even if their implementation is potentially flawed. I don't expect this thing to last a decade.

The one I have does not have a linear compressor. I replaced my fridge last year

GE's appliances business was sold to Haier of China in 2016

Some of the old US-based GE appliance factories and engineering offices are still operating though, but iirc fridges were the first to go straight overseas.

I think washing machines and dryers, maybe dishwashers, are still designed and manufactured in the US.

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