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Letter 21724
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Barry Feinman |
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It appears that the stainless steel finish on my GE Profile side
by side refridgerator is not stainless steel. thats right. I found
out that is a plastic covered metal with an aluminum type finish and
coated with varnish.
how did I find out? I scrubbed a stain off of my fridge and it
lightened the stainless steel so I had to scrub off ALL of the
sstainless to make it the same color stainless. when I got to the
sides, I scrubbed a corner piece and suddenly there was white. White?
thats not stainless steel! it looked like plastic. I took a knife and
peeled it off to the sheet metal below. the plastic is 1/16 inch. I
am devastated. stainless steel fridges are an illusion, at least as
far as GE is concerned. what do you think?
Mitchel Eisenstein
- Stony Brook
Sadly you had a bad deal with this one. Actually Stainless Steel is the 'real' deal. It is just that the particular model you purchased and own is what GE calls 'Clean Steel'. This is their offering of a finger print, lower cleaning maintenance product and as you found out it is a series of coatings over a steel frame, thus it is magnetic. Unfortunately this was a costly lesson. Have a great Holiday anyway.
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Barry Feinman |
Hi, Mitchel. I think if it proved unfit for the purpose and it was designed to trick you, then you have a right to be compensated. I would suggest hunting around to see if there is a class action suit in progress. You won't get much money out of it, but those suits are sometimes successful in getting manufacturers to think twice about trying to mislead people.
Regards,
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Just a thought. I have 2 not so small children and my fridge is always getting smudged or scratched a bit. Why with two small children would you put yourself through it again by buying another one? I think they sell coverings you can put over at least until your kids are grown and you decide if you want another stainless steel fridge. I would never buy another one.
Carol Roth
- Schaumburg, Illinois
February 25, 2009
I have terrible scratches on my GE clean steel refrigerator. Is there anything I can use to remove them, or least make them less obvious?
Colleen Benowitz
- East Brunswick, New Jersey
You can easily buy replacement parts rather than a whole
refrigerator. The contractor redoing accidentally scratched our brand
new ss french door refrigerator ($2500). To replace one door cost
$125.
Much more cost effective IF the scratches can't be repaired.
John Smith
- Hoover, Alabama
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September 28, 2009 Will Scratch-Be-Gone work on a small scratch on a CleanSteel refrigerator? Nancy Harrison
September 28, 2009 Hi, Nancy. Sorry that you apparently misunderstood, but Barry Feinman, the developer of Scratch-B-Gone, said it won't :-) Regards,
October 26, 2009 On September 16, 2009 John S from Hoover Alabama wrote that he replaced the stainless steel door of his GE French door frige for $125. Where did he find this? I cannot find it for less that $600. A contractor dented and scratched mine. Lois Weber
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