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Costco Wholesale [costco.com] has for Costco Members: 28 cu ft LG InstaView Smart Refrigerator w/ Door-In-Door (LFXS28596S) for $1,999.99.
Shipping is free where available. Note: Delivery, Basic Installation and Haul Away Included in Most Areas. Price includes $1,200 savings. Price valid through 7/24/22. While supplies last.
Matches
previous frontpage deal from March. Model is marked as discontinued on
LG website [lg.com].
Features:- InstaView Door-in-Door refrigerators have a sleek glass panel that allows you to see inside the easy access door without letting the cold air out
- Control key refrigerator features from anywhere, at any time with LG SmartThinQ technology
- Door-in-Door provides quick and easy access to foods and beverages
- Finishes are fingerprint and smudge resistant
- Dual ice maker, 2-Tier organization freezer, Glide N' Serve drawer
Specs:- Refrigerator Capacity 18.2 cu. ft
- Freezer Capacity: 9.3 cu. ft
- Dimensions (WxDxH): 35.75" x 36.25" x 69.75"
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I'm terribly unorganized and these bottom freezer drawers end up hiding a bunch of frozen foods that I forget about because it's hard to access them.
If anyone else has this problem, I highly recommend trying out the 4-door fridges (mine is Samsung).
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$120, I'm planning to purchase it for this fridge. We had so many issues with our Kitchenaid fridge that is less than 5 years old. $120 totally makes sense to me to purchase the coverage.
It says the All State protection plan will cover from years 3-5, any idea how that works? Is it from year 3 to 5, or after the coverage (standard + citi card) of 4 years, say years 4-7?
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I'm terribly unorganized and these bottom freezer drawers end up hiding a bunch of frozen foods that I forget about because it's hard to access them.
If anyone else has this problem, I highly recommend trying out the 4-door fridges (mine is Samsung).
I like KitchenAid but they are so expensive now.
With that said, when I was in the market for a new fridge a couple years ago, my first choice was LG. LG didn't have the 4-door style fridge on sale at the time, and I took a calculated risk and went for the Samsung. No issues yet - it's been by far the best fridge I've ever owned. Getting this fridge for ~$1k was a steal via the Best Buy open-box fire sale at the beginning of the pandemic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRgbfxJ
basically avoid LG fridges for now
Warranty service comes out in 10 days but not when the problem is happening and says it's working fine.
Buy an extended warranty and get a thermoworks alarm thermometer so you know when it's warming up.
LG refrigerators score above average in CR's reliability surveys [consumerreports.org].
Likewise, Yale Appliance does a similar report. Since they both sell and repair appliances, they just take the number of service calls they get for a unit they sold, and divide it by the number of units they sold to get a reliability rating (what percentage of units sold needed repair). LG refrigerators are the most reliable brand by this measure [yaleappliance.com]. (Here are their reliability ratings for all appliances [yaleappliance.com].)
The problem with asking repair technicians their opinion is that they only see half the story. They repair a lot of LG and Samsung appliances because people buy a lot of LG and Samsung appliances. Not necessarily because they're less reliable. To get a true measure of reliability, you have to take the number of appliance of that brand which needed repair, and divide it by the number of appliances of that brand in use. Repair techs only see the first number. CR and Yale Appliance see both numbers, which puts them in a better position to gauge reliability.
I didn't trash or donate my old refrigerator (which still worked except the icemaker). I had them put it in the garage, empty and unplugged. I plug it in every few months to keep it lubed and in working order. I figure if the compressor in the LG refrigerator I got fails, I can move all the food into the old refrigerator. I have a separate chest freezer so not all of my frozen goods are in the LG. Of course this isn't an option for everyone, so I totally understand people wishing to avoid LG refrigerators because of this risk.
(The old refrigerator was a bulletproof Whirlpool side-by-side over 20 years old. I could probably get the icemaker repaired. But the problem I was having was that newer food packaging seems to assume you have a wider freezer. And it was becoming difficult to squeeze the frozen foods I bought into it without first unboxing it. Unboxing frozen foods is bad in freezers with an automatic defrost cycle.)
Other oddities I've noticed (I have the counter depth version of this LG, my sister has a Samsung, my parents have a Whirlpool, all french door style).
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