Buying Appliances In A Rural Area.....

It's very tough to buy anything when you live one hundred miles from anywhere. Sure there are local markets but sometimes one needs to drive or use the internet when looking for deals. I'm about to get another fridge and I'm tossing around paying high local prices with tax, or drive two hundred miles round trip and pay no sales tax, while topping up on gas that is fifty cents a gallon cheaper.

My only issue about driving to get a deal from a catalog store is that I did just that months back and I have a stove with the electronics out. It's a propane range and the electronics just blink like an 80's vcr! The company sent me the parts in the mail and gave me the number of the repair tech that is two hundred miles away round trip. Well, they won't return MY calls or the catalog store either. So service becomes a bitch.

I'm betting that buying the same product local, just saves me two hundred miles of towing, because the same repair company will come from the same place and not answer calls unless they line up a bunch. I can understand it from a worker's view, but for buying a new appliance- you want to be covered.

My question is- how good are new fridges? I'm getting a basic one, but do they go out? Which would you buy from? Last month I bought a portable dishwasher because our kitchen is small- bought it online from a blue company in arkansas- it arrived with a broken wheel, and portable dishwashers need wheels! They gave me a GREAT credit because living down the road I do, it's sketchy to drive a rig down it seeing how I'm at the end of the road- they'll drop off, but picking up again and returns....welll- who needs that? What a bitch...


So do you buy local, pay more, prolly not get service if it's screwed up for some time...

or


Do you tow and hope for the best


or



use the internet and if it's broken haggle the fuck out of your bill?





damn...rural life so complicated! LOL