the washing machine and drier we just purchased was much worse than the older model, this was due to planned obsolescene would be my guess. the salesman was qu

the washing machine and drier we just purchased was much worse than the older model, this was due to planned obsolescene would be my guess. the salesman was quite honest about it: "they don't build em like they used to, nowadays they only last about 8 years". the older models could last more than 10 or even 20 years. this newer model wasn't better in any way that i could appreciate. sure it had a bunch of useless apps attached to it and the brochure was filled to the brim with lists of shiny technologies, that didn't make a ounce of difference in the power usage or water use (at least not compared to our 10 year old model). Driers haven't improved in power usage at all in the last 30 years.