Seeking Advice on Buying a New Fridge - GF-B505PL

Ldollarandcents on 08/12/2024 - 08:21
Last edited 08/12/2024 - 16:20 by 1 other user

Hey brains trust - I'm looking to buy a new fridge and have been thinking the GF-B505PL from LG, is it a good fit.

We're rocking an 8 year old top mount Beko which has started giving up slowly and I'm looking to upgrade to a Name brand which will give us more space and also pull its weight for the next 10 years or so.

Based on the requirements from the missus and the available fridge cavity space, the GF-B505PL looks to be most suitable.

I'm looking for,

  • First hand experience from anyone who owns / has owned this model
  • General experience dealing with LG fridges (reliability / after sales support etc)
  • Considering this is a $2000 product, I'm thinking about purchasing the extended warranty cover from the retailers - is it worth it? All of the big retailers seem to offer it, is one better than the other? Or are they all equally (useless / misleading) - Choice magazine.
  • Also the same fridge has a $250 lower retail price advertised at Appliance Central with free delivery and removal which makes it a pretty sweet deal - any experiences dealing with this retailer?

Thanks in advance!

Electrical & Electronics LG GF-B505PL Refrigerator

Comments

  • JIMB0 on 08/12/2024 - 09:22
    +1

    We're rocking an 8 year old top mount Beko which has started giving up slowly

    What makes you think an LG will be any better?

    • dollarandcents on 08/12/2024 - 09:49

      Honestly no complaints with the Beko, not being a name brand it has still survived 4 house moves in the last 8 years but we've out grown it. We started noticing uneven cooling in certain areas etc, could be because we're overfilling it.
      Don't have any first hand experience with LG products myself hence looking to crowdsource some reviews. Initial research doesn't throw up a lot of red flags, there's the odd bad review but nothing overwhelmingly bad like for the Samsung fridges.

      • ATTS on 11/12/2024 - 14:02

        Oh whats bad about samsung fridges?

        Also just curious what things in particular when you said give up slowly

        • dollarandcents on 11/12/2024 - 19:32

          This is what I used for my reviews and they're overwhelmingly bad.
          The freezer light went a few months back but now we're experience sections of the fridge not cooling well and the veggies going bad a lot quicker than they used to even though they're in the veggie tray.
          Unfortunately, we have been over packing the fridge more often which could be the cause of some of these issues also.

  • ozzie freddo on 09/12/2024 - 18:11
    +1

    Our 50 year old Kelvinator is still serving us well and I’m not sure that the latest models are that much more efficient and I guess they’re not built the same now.

  • NirajSS on 11/12/2024 - 10:41
    +1

    We recently purchased this fridge on 2 Dec from the good guys for $1440+$85 delivery paid using 4.5% off the good guys gift card and also had comm bank offer spend $200 get $20 back on good guys. Delivery is on this Saturday. Hopeful it will last and will have no issues.

    There is not much review on this particular fridge and like you mentioned on those available reviews they have not mentioned any major issue other than very prone to dents but again most of these reviews can be considered recent (2-10 months back). As we expect the fridge to at least last 8 years plus.

    With new items these days quality has degraded so much if we see products made 8-10 plus years ago or more they have high quality materials. products made 20-50 years back still runs strong.

    If its not rush wait until boxing day to see if you can find fridge deals and also while you wait for the boxing day look out for gift cards on sale.

    you have got this price match and not sure if you can use this when price matched Jb-hifi Perks offer.
    This offer ends today.

    • dollarandcents on 11/12/2024 - 19:29

      Thanks @NirajSS for taking the time. That is a really good price, was it a price match? The best price that I saw for this fridge during the Black Friday sale was $1777 but we deliberated too much and didn't pull the trigger. I think I'll hold off till Boxing day and hope the price drops.

      • NirajSS on 13/12/2024 - 07:54
        +1

        At first I tried to price match then I also knew this fridge I saw on the good guys was around @1400ish when you clicked on the Price check (pay less with price beat) this price was shown around the black Friday week and you know they change the price pretty much daily, at the time of chat with the good guys team the price was around 1700ish. Still chatted with someone and told them I saw this fridge in good guys when clicking Price check (pay less with price beat) few days back, I mentioned them I missed that sale and asked if they can do it for me around that price, the sale person said she will honour it, she probably checked how much it was on her end few days back.

        Probably check around on other website to see if you can find cheaper price. I still had another backup if that did not work saw around $1539 on Powerland Australia when I was chatting with the good guys team.

        • dollarandcents on 26/12/2024 - 17:02

          Pulled the trigger today, HN dropped the price late last night and Good Guys matched it this morning. Got JB-H-Fi to price match HN (JB also gave me a 10% gift card matching the offer from HN). JB's gift card doesn't have an expiry unlike HN's which needs to be used in a month's time. Happy days!

  • lgacb08 on 11/12/2024 - 22:31
    +1

    Yeah, can confirm LG fridge get dent very easy since they switch to this metallic feel panel, must be aluminium. I don't own this particular model but have the side by side version over and can't fault it. Only thing to watch for LG is accessories, my model didn't have its own ice tray and had to fork out extra for that, so check the manual.

    • dollarandcents on 12/12/2024 - 10:25

      Thanks mate, being susceptible to dents is a problem with the little ones running around. I'll check about the accessories.

  • dollarandcents on 26/12/2024 - 17:07

    Anyone got any comments on the extended care program from these major retailers? Every big retailer has their own version, I got the extended care from JB with my fridge purchase. Wondering what the general experience has been around this since there's some bad press around these extended warranties.
    For me personally, Apple Care+ has always been super handy with my Apple devices so I pulled the trigger on the extended care. The sales rep did say there is a 15 day cooling off if I wanted to cancel the extended care program.

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