What's the difference between a $300 and $1000 dryer?

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  • Miscue
    Super Moderator

    • Oct 2000
    • 7105

    #1

    What's the difference between a $300 and $1000 dryer?

    I'm perplexed with the cost variances of electric driers, anyone have any insight? My dryer is pissing me off...
  • Will Wood
    Evil Monkey
    • May 2002
    • 3475

    #2
    Maybe the fact that it won't piss you off? lol

    But I'd probably have too say *not* that much. Alot of stuff out there there isn't much difference other than price.

    Bleach is an example. Stuff like this always gets me. There's the cheap store brand bleach, and there's Clorox or something. Bleach is bleach!

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    • Miscue
      Super Moderator

      • Oct 2000
      • 7105

      #3
      Originally posted by Will Wood
      Maybe the fact that it won't piss you off? lol

      But I'd probably have too say *not* that much. Alot of stuff out there there isn't much difference other than price.

      Bleach is an example. Stuff like this always gets me. There's the cheap store brand bleach, and there's Clorox or something. Bleach is bleach!
      Yeah, I never understood that either. Introducing: Clorox Bleach with New Formula! Hehe.

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      • Target Practice
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        • Nov 2003
        • 3180

        #4
        The sucker will pay an extra 700 bucks for the same washer.


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        • t33kyboy
          Member #10,261
          • Jan 2004
          • 942

          #5
          I have never seen a $1000 dryer before .
          More money = More space. The expensive ones come with different drying temperatures and cycles for your delicates or something. My aunt has a dryer that detect the moisture in the load and automatically turns off...

          quikkk and i win.

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          • Blazestorm
            I win
            • Feb 2002
            • 3523

            #6
            We got one of those 1000 dollar dryers.

            It looks nifty, that's all
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            • Destructo6
              Registered User
              • Apr 2004
              • 549

              #7
              Efficiency and capacity would be my first guesses.

              I see the Maytag Neptune ($1,089.99) has an upper drying cabinet in addition to the 7 cubic foot drum. Could be pretty handy if you need to hang dry quite a bit of stuff.

              Maybe a bigger question is how Kohler can ask $1,500 for a "Revival" toilet in black.
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              • 1stdeadeye
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                • Jun 2002
                • 8501

                #8
                Features!

                Also Energy star status.

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                • skife
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                  • Feb 2003
                  • 2769

                  #9
                  about $700




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                  • MantisMag
                    Dim Sum
                    • Dec 2001
                    • 1895

                    #10
                    features? on a dryer? for $1000 it had better climb out of the basement, grab my sheets off my bed, and warm them for me at night.

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                    • Pickle
                      Carrier of the big stick!
                      • Apr 2004
                      • 476

                      #11
                      I just dropped a bunch of money on new washer and dryer. Why? Well I have 3 kids and need the capacity.
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                      • Fred
                        AO Zealot
                        • Feb 2002
                        • 2624

                        #12
                        it's probably the difference between the dryer in my apartment, which takes THREE HOUR-LONG CYCLES TO DRY ONE LOAD and my dryer back home, which had everything toasty and dry in 45 minutes...



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                        • SlartyBartFast
                          The Flying Scotsman
                          • Jun 2002
                          • 2940

                          #13
                          Efficiency, capacity, and features.

                          But, do your homework and research all the various models. There are only a few actual manufacturers taht make ALL the different brands. Often the difference between brands can be only cosmetic. So, if you don't ABSOLUTELY want a Maytag (for example) you might find out which store brand is really the exact same machine.

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                          • MiniSpdRcr
                            I fall alot...
                            • Mar 2003
                            • 602

                            #14
                            Thats one dryer that I would not get is Maytag...They are good but if it does break be ready to spend some SERIOUS money to fix it. Kenmoore I know makes really good ones and is recommended by our fixer guy who fixes our machines.
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                            • taylor492
                              [DNFW] M E G A T R O N
                              • Feb 2003
                              • 690

                              #15
                              Well i know the difference. Our old $300 dryer took like 3 cycles to get your clothes completely dry. It pissed me off so much. I could do like 2 or 3 loads in the washing machine in the time it took me to get one load dry.

                              Now our new fancy $1000* dryer is a champ. I swear, sometimes ill check my clothes in the middle of a cycle and theyre already done.

                              Moral of the story: Spring for the more expensive one.






                              *- I dont know exactly how much it cost, it may not have been a grand but it wasnt cheap.


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