hreodbeorht
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For $75 he's ready to send it to the crusher:-(
Maytag Washer and Old Man in PG&E Commercial
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Hey guy, our buddy Mr. Langdon up in Seattle posted something on this ad recently. I noticed there's a dent in the lower left area of the front panel on that gold beauty last time I saw that ad on TV. Looks a lot like the one I used to have! Good luck to whoever has to haul that thing back up the basement steps!
To those of us in the know, I think PG&E chose the wrong washer for this ad campaign. They give you $75 (I'm sure the washer has to be in working order though) to put towards a new machine. If that old guy was to replace his already efficient center dial model with a comparable modern day washer, I'm guessing he'd have to multiply that $75 by about 10. I wonder how many washer loads he'd have to do to accumulate savings enough to recover the extra $675 a new washer would cost him? I'm 52 and I don't think even I'd live long enough to manage that!
Times sure have changed. I remember the PG&E billboards as a kid that contained the copy "Don't be a dishwasher, buy one!"
Ralph
To those of us in the know, I think PG&E chose the wrong washer for this ad campaign. They give you $75 (I'm sure the washer has to be in working order though) to put towards a new machine. If that old guy was to replace his already efficient center dial model with a comparable modern day washer, I'm guessing he'd have to multiply that $75 by about 10. I wonder how many washer loads he'd have to do to accumulate savings enough to recover the extra $675 a new washer would cost him? I'm 52 and I don't think even I'd live long enough to manage that!
Times sure have changed. I remember the PG&E billboards as a kid that contained the copy "Don't be a dishwasher, buy one!"
Ralph
mayken4now
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Yep I agree Ralph.
Steve
Steve
For what it's worth, I mentioned this ad here several months ago when I first saw it. It's a yellow 606, I think. I enjoy listening to the different cycle sounds in the commercial - it sounds like they actually ran it through a full cycle during the filming. No belt squeal, either ;-)
gocartwasher
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the other video clips
the other clips in that catigory wernt happy ones ,2 of them was a guy that hated his maytag washer& the service,one the washer squeeked loud & the other had water on the floor,woa!!!! you might of got a lemon there,we did in a 1969 ford station wagon .my 1960`s westinghouse washer I use every week had givin me little trouble,lot of the appliances dependibality is on the care & use of it,other than a little rust around the door been working well,the cycle knob was broken during a move & glued it up LOL
the other clips in that catigory wernt happy ones ,2 of them was a guy that hated his maytag washer& the service,one the washer squeeked loud & the other had water on the floor,woa!!!! you might of got a lemon there,we did in a 1969 ford station wagon .my 1960`s westinghouse washer I use every week had givin me little trouble,lot of the appliances dependibality is on the care & use of it,other than a little rust around the door been working well,the cycle knob was broken during a move & glued it up LOL
pturo
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He's 75 and looking to recoup the savings on a front loader that would cost him about $800 plus the utilites to run it when he has a Maytag already paid for? We ran this scenario by my 80 year old father, whose response was, "Hey, at my age, I don't even buy green bananas,even on sale, let alone replace appliances that still work."
"Hey, at my age, I don't even buy green bananas,eve
LOL, that's a good one.
I'll have to remember it for my own dotage.
LOL, that's a good one.
I'll have to remember it for my own dotage.
