# Advice on websites recommendations for new appliances

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 25, 2010, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-websites-recommendations-for-new-appliances/533737 "2010-03-25T13:54:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2010, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-websites-recommendations-for-new-appliances/533737/1 "2010-03-25T13:54:07Z")

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Our dryer may have given up the ghost - it was having trouble stopping, now it won’t start\*, and so we are sort of in the market for a replacement.

Anyway, I used to have a membership to Consumer Reports online, but the price for what I was getting wasn’t really worth it to me. Google on “best clothes dryer” turns up loads of hits.

Can anyone recommend a good, non-biased web resource for determining what might be the best major appliance? I’m sure we’ll use it for more than a dryer down the road.

Also, would you recommend picking up a second hand dryer, or would it likely just be buying somebody else’s problems? We bought an inexpensive washer like that a couple of years back and it ended up having the same issues as the washer we were looking to replace, so eventually we just got a new one.

And of course if you love your dryer and want to recommend it, feel free. FWIW we use a gas dryer, not electric.

\*Or suggestions on how to fix the current dryer would be welcome for the time being. It doesn’t start now and you can hear something like a solenoid(?) sort of humming when you depress the start button.

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**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2010, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-websites-recommendations-for-new-appliances/533737/2 "2010-03-25T14:16:58Z")

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iVillage Gardenweb has some pretty good forums on the discussion of appliances and fixtures, for remodeling or building a new home.

> **[Home Appliance Forum | Houzz](https://www.houzz.com/discussions/appliances)**
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> Discuss kitchen and home appliances, including installation and removal costs, popular brands, energy-efficiency and DIY repairs.

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**Author:** ![Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tastes_of_chocolate/32/3232_2.png) [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tastes_of_Chocolate)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2010, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-websites-recommendations-for-new-appliances/533737/3 "2010-03-25T20:35:29Z")

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Do you have the equivalent of[Appliancesmart](http://www.appliancesmart.com/about_locations.html) near you? It’s not second hand, but they do have a lot of scratch and dent appliances.

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**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-websites-recommendations-for-new-appliances/533737/4 "2010-03-26T04:50:56Z")

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> [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](#):
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> Do you have the equivalent of[Appliancesmart](http://www.appliancesmart.com/about_locations.html) near you? It’s not second hand, but they do have a lot of scratch and dent appliances.

We don’t have those. Not sure if we have another similar chain. I tend to only think about appliances when I need a new one, which is fortunately enough not too often.