[ChuckNorris89]

AEG consumer electronics are pure trash nowadays and have nothing to do with the OG AEG company. IIRC, it's a Chinese brand now who licensed the AEG brand name.

[TonyTrapp]

I think already in the 80s AEG's inofficial slogan was "Ausgepackt - Eingeschaltet - Geht nicht" (unwrapped, turned on, didn't work).

[PinguTS]

Ausschalten – Einschalten – Geht (aka: have tried switching it off and on again)

[chokma]

Auspacken, Einschalten, Garantiefall

[TonyTrapp]

Not in this case apparently ;)

[Nextgrid]

Are there still consumer white goods brands that aren't lowest-bidder Chinese crap? I've learned not to trust brand names anymore and just assume everything is crap and buy cheap stuff that I wouldn't mind replacing at the smallest problem.

[chihuahua]

Miele

[ChuckNorris89]

Yeah, but their pricing is just insane. Far out of the reach of the middle class, at least in Europe.

I would say Siemens and Bosch are solid while still being affordable.

[cr3ative]

Their pricing is fairly reasonable when their hugely extended lifetime is considered. The Vimes Boot theory in action.

[voakbasda]

Bosch pulls the same kind of user-hostile shenanigans as described herein. Any appliance connected to the internet should be tossed in the trash.

[ChuckNorris89]

Got a source for that claim about Bosch please?

[oblio]

It's Electrolux, Swedish company and apparently second appliance company worldwide by number of units sold.

[deelowe]

Electrolux is one of those companies that I avoid at all costs. Everything they make is garbage.

[gandalfian]

Owned by Electrolux. So in Europe at at least Electrolux, zanussi and AEG will be roughly similar parts aimed at different market segments. My AEG oven from a year ago was still made in Germany so hopefully ok. They may well ajbe sold the branding rights in some cases though.

[b112]

I bet assembled, not made.