I spent like $6k a few years ago on some badass front loading, touch screen, "smart" phone app controlled washer and dryer set. Deep candy red paint, they looked fuckin' awesome! My wife was in love with them and finally had me convinced we needed them. Within 6 weeks the washer leaked all over the fucking place and they had a tech out to my house 4 times in 2 weeks trying to fix it, then gave up and replaced it. Said it would have cost more to fix than just replace it (that always blows my mind) and I got a new one under warranty.
3 months in, the dryer stops heating. Can't fix that piece of shit either, had to be replaced. While the guy is installing the new one, he notices the fucking BRAND NEW dryer's buttons don't even work. They still had the fucking plastic protective film on it! This jackass decides to swap the control heads out so that we aren't without a dryer until the new (third) one comes in, since it will be a few days.
Fucking control head burns up on the very first load, apparently they redesigned it in the short amount of time between the original purchase and the replacement, and the controls weren't compatible. The tech didn't know that because they hadn't even released the service manual for the new version yet. At this point I fucking lost it and made them refund my money for the whole set and come pick those pieces of shit up from the front yard.
My uncle was getting married about this time and his wife was moving in with him and selling her house and all her appliances and shit, and they gave us a set of like 30 year old whirlpools for free, and these motherfkrs had been through a house of 5 kids out in the country.
Those fuckers are still going strong. They're ugly as sin, but they work like a charm and it got my wife off my back about some dumbass fridge she wanted that had similar features/controls as the washer/dryer she just HAD to have. Win/win!
Fuck new shit!