Why Exactly Are Chinese Bloggers Smashing Refrigerators With Sledgehammers?
- Posted on November 20, 2011 at 9:59pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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You can pay a pretty penny nowadays for kitchen appliances. You shell out the cash expecting that such devices will provide the minimal services that manufacturers advertise, without additional headaches. So when a refrigerator door won’t properly close, it’s bound to tick some people off. ITN News reports on a group of angry tech bloggers in China who banded together to take out fridge frustrations on the products in front of the brand’s headquarters:
China Hush reports that the sledgehammer protest began with “China Internet Celebrity” Luo Yonghao, who wrote in his micro-blog that the Siemens refrigerator and washing machine he bought three years ago were both broken. China Hush reports that after filing several complaints to Siemens customer service with the company refusing to admit that there are issues with their products, Luo promoted the “refrigerator gate” incident:
“November 20, Luo Yonghao, and other volunteers came to demonstrate at the Siemens headquarters in Beijing. They smashed three problem refrigerators and submitted a written request to urge Siemens to give recognition of product issues, to stop shirk responsibility, to stop ignoring the demands of consumers and also recall the problem refrigerators.
Finally, Siemens called the police and the show was finally over. Luo Yonghao continued posting on his micro-blog saying if Siemens keep avoiding this issue, he will convene more victims to smash refrigerators again.”
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Comments (50)
Harry Assenback
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 2:05pmDuct Tape would have fixed it………………..Now look at you China Man! Jeez……..
Report Post »war7412
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:03pmYou mean they had to hit more then ONCE…….wow
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 11:35amWell…the sledge hammers were made in China also. I am surprised after a few hits, they didn’t break in half.
Report Post »SweetDoug
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 11:13amHa! Revenge is a dish best served cold! From a crappy Made in China fridge no less!!!
The irony! Now the Chinese are pissed at their own crappy products that we’ve been putting up for years.
LAFMO!!
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Report Post »V-V
teddrunk
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 10:26amSo, after 70 years of making refrigerators, they haven’t perfected the closing door? Perhaps go back to the drawings and re-introduce the Nash-Kelvinator refrigerator. Those things worked forever.
Report Post »hi
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 8:44amCan’t they just write a letter using words to express their disappointment?
Report Post »proantisocialist
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 8:53amif they do that.then thats when the new death vans show up..
Report Post »dizzyinthedark
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 7:55amGood news here for GE as they just have moved their business over there. Now the Chinese can purchase GE products that have those ‘controller’ chips in them emitting RF waves to communicate with those ‘dumb’ meters also emitting pulsed RF waves that we are forced to accept.
Report Post »redbone007
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 7:55amThey were made in china what do he expects.
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 7:36amNothing made today has the quality products contained over that last few decades. It’s all mostly cheap crap.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 8:55amWell of course it is. If they made it to last, you wouldn’t be buying more of it. It’s just like cars….I hear they aren’t requiring manufacturers to maintain parts for 20 years after a car stops being produced. That‘s because today’s cars aren’t expected to last that long. Just go out and buy a new one…..I guess they haven’t heard stories (like I was raised on) of the great depression. My grandpa only had toys that he made. Or used a wagon hoop and a stick to guide it as they ran down the street.
Report Post »grannyrecipe
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 6:46amUm, Chinese complaining about quality? LOL
Report Post »The_Sum_Total_Of_Progressivism_Is_Epic_Failure
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 4:48amThis is the 2nd best way to create jobs, behind citizens collecting unemployment.
Report Post »Warm In The Desert
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 2:33amHave felt on many an occasion a similar attitude toward Siemens or Bosch products built by BSH sold in the UK, with fewer occasions toward BSH products like Bosch, and Thermador sold in the USA
Report Post »KICKILLEGALSOUT
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 12:39amThis just more Chinese anti foreign nationalism that goes on all the time and is pure propaganda to try to get the people to buy domestic products and support local companies. As a matter of fact, we should be doing the same thing here in America with Chinese products. The Chinese don’t like it when 1% of the products on their markets are foreign, how do they think when Americans are forced to buy foreign products because 95% of the products on their shelves are. Boycott foreign products, boycott foreign businesses and restaurants, and don’t hire foreign workers! Take back your country Americans and get a sense of nationalism, especially during the godless commercial spending spree that Christmas has become.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:34amI would believe Luo if he SHOWED a fit or interference problem for the refrigerator on camera. As it is, I have to give your accusation serious consideration.
Buying American cars, that is pretty tough. All that is left is Ford. I cannot see buying a GM car & paying homage to the union faction of the ruling class.
Report Post »philipzhao
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 4:36amJust opposite! Chinese consumers are crazy for foreign brands and do not trust locally made Chinese products. Chinese upper class consumers want nothing but foreign brand-names /name-brands which are priced much higher. This is a symbol of their wealth!
Report Post »redbone007
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 7:58amChinese and Africa consumers are willing to pay more money for items with the USA label. USA label “made to last’.
Report Post »timej31
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 11:43pmHaha outstanding! What about our representatives that don’t do as they say or promise? Will that be next?
Report Post »NOBAMA201258
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 7:36amOne can always dream, TIMEJ31,one can always dream!
Report Post »cassandra
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 10:43pmI would like to do that to my front loading GE washer it is a piece of crap, it is always breaking down and doesn’t clean the clothes sorry I bought it
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 10:51pmThat’s why I buy old refurbished washers and dryers. I paid $100 total for both and I’m going on them operating for almost seven years.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 10:53pmOf course they don’t “Shine” like the neighbor’s appliances, but then again I’m not a crow that keeps up with the Jones.
Report Post »Shasta
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 10:55pmGE products use to be wonderful. Buying their stock was like buying a good mutual fund. Now both sting, yet that looser Immelt remains and is also on Obummer jobless council.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 11:29pmIf the Socialist have their way… the US will be full of Products like the GE Washer & GM Volt :(
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 11:33pm@Cassandra — I have to agree with you, the apartment complex I live in has a wash room loaded with GE washers/dryers and most of the time the infernal things are out of order or shake, rattle and quake so much you cannot hear yourself think let alone anyone else speaking or trying to. Junk in all areas as far as I am concerned.
Report Post »leftCAforTX
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 12:27amI’ll one up you. A couple of years after buying our new home, our GE microwave decided to shoot a flame out its side. Of course, it gave up the ghost. A week or two later the oven died in similar fashion. We called GE, let them know we had two flame throwers pretending to be appliances in our home. Customer service response… sorry they’re out of warranty.
Anyone but Obama and any appliance company but GE.
Report Post »GdHUs
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:32amNow that you mentioned it, my GE microwave over my stove makes funny popping noises and changes fan speeds half way through the cooking cycle. Then there was my one year old GE refrigerator with the ice maker that sounded like the St. Valentine’s Day massacre. Oh did I mention my GE dishwasher. Two years old and it stops running. The repair man said I could either change out the motor for $300 or get on my knees and reach underneath with a chop stick and spin start the fan on the motor myself every time I run it. I decided that I could buy a lot of knee pads for $300.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:43am@Snowleopard
Report Post »Wow, you live in an apartment complex? You should have your own house. I remember the last time I lived in an apartment complex. Not nice.
ZAP
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 10:34pmThe Sperm Corporation
Report Post »100 Million Patriots Standing
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 10:48pmSiemens is also the global company in bed with the UN on production of things related to sustainability and global warming/environmentalism….including Smart Meters,
Report Post »John 1776
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 10:29pmOver here, you would be arrested by the “Green Police” for releasing the watered down Freon substitute that is in them!
Oh yea, and be put on trial before Al Gore!
Report Post »DagneyT
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 10:22pmTo have quality, you must demand quality….for too long the Chinese have been told they must accept what they get. If you pay for it, demand quality.
The problem with the occupy FLEA groups [Freeloading Liberals Encouraging Anarchy] groups, they do not believe they should pay for anything.
Hee Hee…capitalism has crept into China.
So much for communism. LMFO
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 10:41pmNah, they will end up a die-hard Communism again, and eject Capitalism. Watch and see. Same thing with America in that America will eventually eject Communism.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 10:43pmBut hey, all the commies in America are always welcome to move to China.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 10:47pmThe Chinese will turn to their government to make the quality issues go away. And if China is going that path, then America needs to do the opposite of China.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 10:56pmThis is just another form… of the Red Guard… who went around destorying things. It is a Government backed… reminder… of Mao! This is a message to the Chinese… not to the outside World!
Report Post »GeneTracy
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 10:21pmKinda like we feel like doing when we get something “made in China”.
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:51am;) well said.
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 10:16pmWendy O. Williams predicted this.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 10:14pmI saw this type of Destruction before in China… only a Crew destroyed an Exotic Sports Car. They said, it was because it did not work as advertised… but really this is about the New Rich in China, destroying things of Value…. to show that Wealth has not corrupted them from Communism!
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 10:27pmI agree. I wonder how else they think people would behave who have been under years and years of Communism?
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 10:30pmJust like attempting to give people Liberty who don’t have yet the underlying foundation of understanding it, you also can’t shove Capitalism into Communism. Won’t work.
Report Post »Got2bRoni
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 10:12pmNice. I would be mad too.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 10:11pmSo in China you are allowed to protest something from outside of the country.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 10:05pmAnd I thought:
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPrSVkTRb24
YepImaConservative
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 10:04pmThis is what happens when you send Geman semen to China!
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