On many occasions where CR rates one machine as Best Buy and another don't buy yet both machines where built by the same manufacture on the same line and the only difference is the label/ paint color.ERLover wrote:JPG luv ya like a long lost bro, trust ya, respect your knowledge and like your humor/outlook on life, hate your abbreviations, but CR is a bible of mine when shopping, if in my affordability.
Likewise I have noticed many reliability ratings are based on short term usage and are often dramatically contradicted by long term actual usage reliability.
They also fail to report many appliances are built by the same company on the same line and the only difference is label and price.
Lastly most evaluations are done not by people that commonly use the product but by lab rats based on their opinions rather than actual field usage experience.
My experience has been CR opinions must be taken with many many grains of salt.
I cdiscountinued my CR subscription many years ago for these exact reasons.