DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU LIKE TO " Keep Up With The Jones'".
Keep it simple. Most people only use 2 settings ( cycles). (EX: dishwasher, washer, dryer) Why buy one that had 5 or 6. More important, if you buy a shiney high end appliance, and it breaks, the parts are going to cost more. You're not just going to throw away a $2200 Refrigerator. But with all its unique parts, repairs will cost more. Sometimes way more than necessary. MSRP has been staying high, even after transportation cost have gone down. Why? Because you accept it AND there is no incentive to lower mainstream cost. We have to go through all our parts and check year-to-year prices, also wholesale cost vs MSRP. We usually mark down From MSRP. We actually only check prices at the first of the year, and keep those prices all year long, for our stocked parts. It's just how we prefer to do business.