My sibling is an appliance repairman, and I hear a lot of this from him-- it's becoming more difficult to get any kind of customer service from the appliance companies, over the phone. The parts companies are having supply-chain issues and are also getting more difficult to contact. And the appliances themselves, as they get more high-tech, are also declining in quality and lifespan. It's just a bad idea to put a delicate circuitboard into a device whose purpose is to generate *heat*-- such as an oven, stove, clothes-dryer, or even a dishwasher. Eventually, the heat fries the circuit-board, and often the circuit-board costs most of the price of the appliance. The more recent trend is high-end "retro" appliances (think stoves/ovens), that have no circuitboards and all-manual controls (no digital readouts or buttons). That exists now because people are willing to pay *more* for it.
https://bigchill.com/collections/retro.aspx
There's also a growing market for actual antique appliances that've been repaired, repainted, and restored, like these:
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Re: The End of Reliable Services
Date: 2023-06-15 01:54 pm (UTC)https://bigchill.com/collections/retro.aspx
There's also a growing market for actual antique appliances that've been repaired, repainted, and restored, like these:
https://www.retrostoveandgasworks.com/for-sale