[Boomer]

Wherever you buy, I have one suggestion......

If you buy a French-door refrigerator with an icemaker, spring for the extended warranty because I would bet good money that the icemaker will fail.

As much as it goes against our grain to buy an extended warranty, when it comes to refrigerators, we do.

We put in an Electrolux French-door with a kitchen remodel in 2010. After many attempts to fix the icemaker -- which had failed after a year -- the entire unit was replaced.

In a different house, our LG French-door icemaker failed after a year.

As much as I like French-door refrigerators, I don't think they have the engineering for the icemaker in the door figured out yet. Or is it simply built in by the manufacturers' not caring about the integrity of design in the rush to market and high profit.

(Hey! RickeyD, I forgot to quote your Post#5, but I agree completely with part of what you said......

There are variations in stainless. When the Electrolux was replaced, the counter-depth model had a vinyl side-wrap by that time instead of the full-stainless wrap like the first one we had. Electrolux had cheapened their design.

But, Rickey, I wish it were true that "you get what you pay for" as you say in the rest of your post. But, alas, it is more and more difficult to find quality in the manufacturing.....of most anything. But the prices go higher and higher.)

Anyway, OP, think about buying the extended warranty if you buy a new refrigerator, especially if it's a French-door with an icemaker.

Boomer Furness