At one time, buying a washing machine was a MAJOR purchase that had to be considered carefully. Today however, anyone can buy one that looks nice with endless fancy features they will never use. Probably the only 2 decisions made are how big the drum is and if the washing machine looks nice and modern.

The shaver is overpriced because the public are fooled into buying something that is “fashionable” and believe it’s a luxury item. Dyson vacuums are the same – overpriced and poor quality rubbish, but people think these expensive Dysons are “good”. Shame that people don’t consider that ‘expensive’ washing machines like Miele *are* GOOD and do the job properly.

“The trouble with many washing machines these days, is that their design and reliability seems to be dictated almost entirely by costs. The majority of washing machine manufacturers are fighting out a long running price war, which will probably end up with them all being taken over by large global companies until there are just one or two companies making washing machines worldwide. Already, many apparently competing washing machines are actually owned by the same companies.”

The article is a good read and goes into greater detail on differences between cheap and expensive machines, the reason for me here in Australia in finding this site.