Often times when duckduckgoing (is that the right term for that) advice for products, I use the !ddgr key to directly search reddit for advice. But in a post-blackout world, I need to do this a lot less. So I want to know what the best places are to get reviews and advice for products that are human and not top 10 listicals.
Be careful on that appliance recommendation strategy. Even small businesses salespeople receive kickbacks from manufacturers. And pretty much every service plan from a store these days is underwritten by someone like Assurant.
If you can get in touch with either someone in customer service or a repair tech then you’ll get the best info.
Customer service generally has the incentives in the right place. If they tell you something isn’t returned often then that means they don’t have to deal with you coming back and complaining for no monetary benefit to themselves.
There’s also lots of channels on YouTube from small appliance repair companies and they’re more than willing to tell you who sucks.