Haier??
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spaceship

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915 posts

199 months

Saturday 7th May 2011
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Anyone heard or have any experience with them?

Saw a washing machine today in Comet made by them but had never heard of them before. Decent looks, energy ratings and price made it a decent alternative to the Beko we were looking at.

Cheers





-Pete-

2,914 posts

200 months

Saturday 7th May 2011
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Qingdao Refrigerator Co?

Mr GrimNasty

8,172 posts

194 months

Saturday 7th May 2011
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Never heard of them but google reveals they are Chinese and lots of people on moneysavingexpert moaning about them being rubbish.

spaceship

Original Poster:

915 posts

199 months

Sunday 8th May 2011
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Cheers for that. Been doing some reading on moneysavingexpert. Looks like we'll be going with something else then.

cool

Simpo Two

91,510 posts

289 months

Sunday 8th May 2011
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Every time I read 'Haier' I see Miss Piggy karate-chopping Kermit the frog...

spaceship

Original Poster:

915 posts

199 months

Sunday 8th May 2011
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Simpo Two said:
Every time I read 'Haier' I see Miss Piggy karate-chopping Kermit the frog...
Haha.

Funnily enough everytime I read it I think of 'Hiya' in a northern English accent. Think that is cos a guy in my work says it like that.



Edited by spaceship on Sunday 8th May 10:49

Simpo Two

91,510 posts

289 months

Sunday 8th May 2011
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spaceship said:
Funnily enough everytime I read it I think of 'Hiya' in a northern English accent. Think that is cos a guy in my work says it like that.
Is he a Jardie lake mun?

remedy

2,188 posts

215 months

Sunday 8th May 2011
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God awaful crap - at least in 2007 they were. I bought one for the house when I moved in and 6 months later the bearings were on their way out.
8 months after that full spin sounded similar to Concorde coming in to land - seriously, you could not be in the kitchen at the same time.
I sent a nasty letter to Comet after they fobbed me off because it was outside of 12 months and quoted the SOGA as well as all the reports round the net of recalls and general shoddy build quality.
They sent an engineer round who confirmed the bearings were shot and also the motor was on its way out.

I got a creit note and bought a Beko - 2 years later and it is still perfect.

They may have improved recently - I know the price of them went up quite a bit. The functions were good - prorammable timer etc but it just wasn't built properly.

shakotan

10,861 posts

220 months

Sunday 8th May 2011
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spaceship said:
Haha.

Funnily enough everytime I read it I think of 'Hiya' in a northern English accent. Think that is cos a guy in my work says it like that.
Pretty much how it's said, actually. Phonetically it's like 'Higher', and they are a massive company. When I was living in Guangdong South China, my home was in the same town as some of the Haier factories, and they were huge.

dugsud

1,125 posts

287 months

Sunday 8th May 2011
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We had one of their integrated dishwashers and after about 15 months took it to the tip and replaced it with a Bosch. Absolute crap!

You live and learn rolleyes