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If your Samsung heat pump costs 1-2k you can expect the same product from a German company to cost 7-15k for no appreciable difference. Why buy the German product then? Because the builders who install it will get a cut of course. They don't need your business and will simply refuse the job if you don't buy the most expensive materials. You can add to that cost all the subsidies of the German government, which, as everyone knows, simply increase prices when there is a supply shortage. But these subsidies are tied to other requirements to make your house more energy efficient, like installing a solar power system with batteries (30k€ easily).

Heat pumps are a gimmick for rich people that already have well insulated modern homes. For everyone else it is vastly more expensive than gas or oil and in addition, we have to pay taxes for all the subsidies going to those rich people.

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If the Samsung heat pump works as well as my Samsung fridge does, I'll definitely look into a German product!