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AEG consumer electronics are pure trash nowadays and have nothing to do with the OG AEG company. IIRC, it's a Chinese brand now who licensed the AEG brand name.
by ChuckNorris89 5y ago
AEG consumer electronics are pure trash nowadays and have nothing to do with the OG AEG company. IIRC, it's a Chinese brand now who licensed the AEG brand name.
- TonyTrapp 5y agoI think already in the 80s AEG's inofficial slogan was "Ausgepackt - Eingeschaltet - Geht nicht" (unwrapped, turned on, didn't work).
- oblio 5y agoIt's Electrolux, Swedish company and apparently second appliance company worldwide by number of units sold.
- deelowe 5y agoElectrolux is one of those companies that I avoid at all costs. Everything they make is garbage.
- gandalfian 5y agoOwned by Electrolux. So in Europe at at least Electrolux, zanussi and AEG will be roughly similar parts aimed at different market segments. My AEG oven from a year ago was still made in Germany so hopefully ok. They may well ajbe sold the branding rights in some cases though.
- b112 5y agoI bet assembled, not made.
- Nextgrid 5y agoAre there still consumer white goods brands that aren't lowest-bidder Chinese crap? I've learned not to trust brand names anymore and just assume everything is crap and buy cheap stuff that I wouldn't mind replacing at the smallest problem.
- chihuahua 5y agoMiele
- ChuckNorris89 5y agoYeah, but their pricing is just insane. Far out of the reach of the middle class, at least in Europe. I would say Siemens and Bosch are solid while still being affordable.
- cr3ative 5y agoTheir pricing is fairly reasonable when their hugely extended lifetime is considered. The Vimes Boot theory in action.
- voakbasda 5y agoBosch pulls the same kind of user-hostile shenanigans as described herein. Any appliance connected to the internet should be tossed in the trash.
- ChuckNorris89 5y agoGot a source for that claim about Bosch please?