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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Give a Pass to the GE Wine Refrigerator

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By Ana Dupas

When you look at the General Electric website, you get the impression that the GE wine refrigerator is not one of their main concentrations in appliances. When you turn to other websites, such as store sites and reviewer sites, you begin to get an idea that this hasn't always been the case. There appear to have been other wine cellar refrigerators made by GE in the past, but they are all either no longer available or going out of stock. Since many other GE appliances are very good deals, this creates a bit of a mystery.

On review sites for major appliances, the GE wine refrigerator often doesn't even get mentioned, and if it does, the reviews are poor. For instance, the Modern Wine Cellar site goes into great detail in its wine refrigerator reviews, using a five-point system to rate the features of a long list of units. The only GE model included is the Profile PCR06WATSS, and it only gets two points. In contrast, Avanti units have considerably more positive assessments.

The response on review sites to the GE wine refrigerator is at best lukewarm, especially compared to the rave reviews received by models like Avanti, EuroCave and Vinotemp. A few people appear to love the General Electric product, yet most wine refrigerator reviews, at best, damn with faint praise. Others list flaws and defects which, while not necessarily preventing their fridge from running, make it vibrate too much or run too loudly. Meanwhile, the few times customer service is mentioned, the comments are uniformly negative.

Making wine storage coolers may just not be General Electric's primary area of expertise. Not every appliance company can excel with every type of appliance, and the GE wine refrigerator may be an example of this. Certainly, with most other wine refrigerators that get great reviews, creating these units is often the manufacturer's primary business.

So among wine refrigerators, it appears that the better option is to choose one of the specialty manufacturers instead, and in the case of this appliance, give General Electric a pass. - 24553

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