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Thread ID: 59384	2005-06-30 22:38:00	Is NZ an 'electrical dumping ground'?	Shortcircuit (1666)	PC World Chat

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368376	2005-07-02 05:45:00	I'd have to agree with the 'buy cheap get crap' comments, but I don't buy cheap and that's the annoying thing... should a $150.00 cordless jug be expected to last more than a week (and be replaced three times in the process!)? Maybe I should start shopping at the Whare-house	Shortcircuit (1666)
368377	2005-07-02 09:14:00	That "$150 cordless jug" gave me a wry smile. At that price, I assume it's one of the "satin" steel types which are the current upmarket trend? Well, some kind of metal, anyway. I bought one recently when my old $40 plastic one died. ($110 but half price on a special. Nice shape & looked elegant ) A week later, I was back to buy another plastic model. Nothing wrong with its workings. I just couldn't stand the unaccustomed racket it made while heating. Admittedly, the jug's spot isn't far behind my own kitchen chair, but when I could barely hear someone else conversation from the other side of the room (& my hearing's fine) it had to go... My neighbour's happy with her unexpected present - but it sits on a benchtop well away from the conversation area. And my new cheapie plastic gurgles away quietly behind me... Not the original point (Of course you can expect better performance than you got. Care to name the brand?) but just a noise warning for anyone who hadn't thought of that - like me. P.S. The cheap old jug didn't die electrically, by the way. It developed a leak at the bottom - as did its predecessor - but both had so much wear I could hardly complain.	Laura (43)
368378	2005-07-02 09:31:00	You're not wrong about the noise Laura, but it does make a nice little 'ding' when it's done... better than the incessant beeping of the microwave! Shame you can't try them out in the store. The other problem is keeping it clean, but some bright person invented spray on stainless steel cleaner :-) It's a 'Breville Ikon' by the way... even has a light in the water level and a nifty 'pneumatic' pop up lid (As they say- all the bells and whistles... and lights too!) I'm keeping my fingers crossed that No 3 is a good one or I'll be tempted to buy a plastuc fantastic from the Warehouse. The reason I bought it was because the other (expensive) cordless jug started to leak and the lid was always a battle to get off.... that one lasted 14 months.	Shortcircuit (1666)
368379	2005-07-02 09:52:00	Our kitchens seem to work in opposites, Shortcircuit. My el cheapo microwave doesn't beep at all - but it does make a nice little "ding" when it's done. Are you by any chance in the northern hemisphere? (Just in case it's like water going down the plughole the opposite way) Only joking... BTW Interesting how most of the plastic jug brands changed a few years ago to be one-piece without lids, so that you couldn't replace an element. That was my first sign that NZ had entered the throw-away society we'd heard of from the States.	Laura (43)
368380	2005-07-02 11:10:00	BTW Interesting how most of the plastic jug brands changed a few years ago to be one-piece without lids, so that you couldn't replace an element. That was my first sign that NZ had entered the throw-away society we'd heard of from the States. I needed another electric jug here (for the office). Warehouse cordless jug was $9.87 normal price (still is), on "special" it was below $9 when I bought it. It seems to work just fine, at that price you could not buy and change the element anyway, let alone the cord and plug, cordless base.... nor would you want to. Its 600% quieter than our $100 Russell Hobbs jug in the kitchen as well.	godfather (25)
368381	2005-07-03 21:42:00	Hmm... Fisher and Paykel products in the shops are still made in New Zealand, but off hand all the other brands that used to be household names like Sunbeam, Goldaire, are all made in China. More and more manufacturers worldwide are moving operations to China. Not all. One of the people I worrk with bought a new F&P refigurator. You know buy NZ made he thought. When the fridge arrive in it's cardboard box it said on the outside " Proudly made in Australia" I wouldn't be surprise in the next 5 years that F&P dose'nt pack it's bags to move all manufacturing to Oz..	paulw (1826)
368382	2005-07-03 23:32:00	Not all. One of the people I worrk with bought a new F&P refigurator. You know buy NZ made he thought. When the fridge arrive in it's cardboard box it said on the outside " Proudly made in Australia" I wouldn't be surprise in the next 5 years that F&P dose'nt pack it's bags to move all manufacturing to Oz.. mmm,I was going to buy a refigurator.Sounds like like I might leave it for a while.	Cicero (40)
368383	2005-07-03 23:53:00	Not all. One of the people I worrk with bought a new F&P refigurator. You know buy NZ made he thought. When the fridge arrive in it's cardboard box it said on the outside " Proudly made in Australia" I wouldn't be surprise in the next 5 years that F&P dose'nt pack it's bags to move all manufacturing to Oz.. thats nothing new. f&p have been making fridges in aussie for ages. they make the aussie models (assie's like certain sized fridges) in aussie and import a few for the market here.	tweak'e (69)
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