{"id":313,"date":"2012-07-18T19:17:20","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T23:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/?p=313"},"modified":"2026-02-01T12:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T16:35:14","slug":"dont-ever-buy-samsung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Ever Buy Samsung"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the end of December, 2011 I bought a Samsung fridge – RFG237AAWP\/XAA – from bestbuy.com\u00c2\u00a0 A little over a month ago, about 4 and a half weeks actually, it stopped working and I lost a ton of food.\u00c2\u00a0 Disappointing for a 6 month old unit, but these things happen I guess.\u00c2\u00a0 After the first trip from the repairman, everything seemed ok… but after a few days, everything in the fridge was frozen.\u00c2\u00a0 So round 2 of lost food.\u00c2\u00a0 They came back and replaced more parts, thinking that would fix it – it didn’t.\u00c2\u00a0 They came back again<\/em> and replaced the same part they had the first time – supposedly with some engineer from Samsung on the phone with the tech confirming that was the problem.\u00c2\u00a0 Nope, still nothing.\u00c2\u00a0 So each of these repairs took at least two trips for the tech – one to diagnose, another to actually do something with the parts.\u00c2\u00a0 Each trip requiring time off work to let them in to do their thing.\u00c2\u00a0 Finally, last week I spoke with an “Executive Customer Relations” rep who said they would setup an exchange.\u00c2\u00a0 Finally! <\/strong>Or so I thought….<\/p>\n

Today, 4 days later, I get an email from them saying that since we bought it online<\/em> with BestBuy, they could not designate a store to do the exchange, but they’d happily refund the purchase price.\u00c2\u00a0 The problem, of course, is that I caught the fridge on sale – it’s about $500 more now.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m actually back to the point that I was 2 weeks ago, so completely fed up with them that I was ready to just throw the whole thing out and go buy a new one.\u00c2\u00a0 The complete lack of urgency on their part is amazing to me.\u00c2\u00a0 The unit just turned 6 months old, and it hasn’t worked for over a month of that.
\nSo I’m shopping… I’m pretty sure I’ll just take the refund, not<\/strong> buy another Samsung, and basically tell everyone who will listen to not buy one.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t usually raise a stink about things, but this has just really tweaked me enough to use every outlet I have to encourage people to stay away from them.\u00c2\u00a0 I should have stuck with my old Whirlpool.<\/p>\n

“Disappointed” is really the only word i can come up with.\u00c2\u00a0 No one really seemed to care, and the amount of time and effort I had to put in to getting this stupid thing fixed has been ridiculous.\u00c2\u00a0 And the customer service people weren’t bad, they just weren’t very good.\u00c2\u00a0 The amount of phone calls I had to make – and twice I was given a wrong number to call, and once completely hung-up on when they tried to transfer me.<\/p>\n

Update 7\/20\/2012<\/strong> – I just called to have them process the refund, and she said I need to send the receipt again because it wasn’t on BestBuy letter head.\u00c2\u00a0 W.T.F.\u00c2\u00a0 Honestly, this would be hilarious if it wasn’t happening to me.\u00c2\u00a0 So that will take another two business days.\u00c2\u00a0 Then, if I’m lucky, they’ll process the refund which will take 10-15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the end of December, 2011 I bought a Samsung fridge – RFG237AAWP\/XAA – from bestbuy.com\u00c2\u00a0 A little over a month ago, about 4 and a half weeks actually, it stopped working and I lost a ton of food.\u00c2\u00a0 Disappointing … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}