We replaced our six year old original W/D in April. I spent a day reading reviews from Best Buy, Lowes, Home Depot and Amazon. At the end I concluded that front loaders had problems, mostly with mold build up and with water leakage. I then concentrated on top loaders and one of my wife's biggest complaints with our old Whirlpool was the agitator tearing up or wearing out clothes. I found the major brands now feature HE models 'High Efficienty' which come without an agitator.
After more and more reading of reviews I determined that LG and Samsung didn't make good front loaders, or any better than others, but when it came to top loading HE models, LG was the best. LG had high reviewer's ratings on every website and the least amount of problems. I then tried to find what I wanted at Lowes since they had the 10% veteran discount. As it turned out, they had the model washer I wanted but not the matching dryer, I would of had to get a lower price LG dryer and I wanted the model with the glass door that matched. I then focused on Best Buy and Home Depot and Best Buy had the washer and it's price was equal to the Lowe's price had I gotten the veteran discount. They also had the matching glass door dryer.
The LG washer was $899 at Lowes and Best Buy had it for $819, I then went to the Lady Lake Best Buy and was able to get them to negotiate the washer down to $720, and dryer was $719 and was able to get it for $650 plus we got them to delete the $30 take-away fee of the old washer and dryer and got a $100 store credit card and of course free delivery 3 days later. We've now had the set about 3 months and my wife loves them and we got a fantastic deal, so much so I went back last month and got a Samsung 75" 4K TV at a great price. I noticed the washer price has gone up to the same price as Lowes, the dryer is still at it's original price, and as I mentioned BB is willing to negotiate on their prices.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/lg-5-2-c...?skuId=5195801
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/lg-7-3-c...?skuId=5712148