Bluestar Range Top vs. American Range
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Bluestar vs. American Range
Comments (79)>>They are major marked up to begin with, like all pro look ranges. Big margins. >> Welcome to retailing! No, seriously...everything you buy, pretty much, is hugely marked up as it passes from raw commodity to processor to warehouse to distributor to store. Buy a $800 cashmere suitjacket and you're getting less than $100 of fabric there. As an amateur seamstress I cringe when I see $40+ baby clothes, knowing there's about 50 cents worth of fabric, at most. But you know, it isn't worth my time to sew baby clothes, any more than it's worth it for you to farm goats and spin their wool into sweaters. Grudging manufacturers their profit margins, when so many people are fixated on the Wal-Mart model of constantly declining prices that has driven so many other retailers out of business, is pointless....See MoreAmerican Range or BlueStar- 24" gas range
Comments (4)I'd def suggest bluestar over the American. Bluestar is just a more commercial product that you will be pleased with. And given your space considerations, the 24" would be a great fit. I actually prefer the 24" to the 30" in general, as any 30" range has that useless dead space in the middle whereas with the 24", you can have the "slideability" on all 4 burners (ie, sliding the pots and pans around without having to lift them up). And if you think a 24" isn't big enough, then swing by Dmitris restaurant in 2nd and Catherine in Philly (which by your handle on here makes me think you're familiar with it), and see how they run a packed restaurant day in and day out using a 4 burner 24" range....See MoreBlueStar vs American Range
Comments (3)I'm in Atlanta. Here the American is less than the price quoted for the Blue Star. I just googled the 30" and pricing seems to be right at $3000 at online shops. That should give you a ballpark at least. Also, there is an American thread with some photos. See below. Here is a link that might be useful: American Range...See MoreBluestar Servicing Questions
Comments (8)First you might want to clarify if you're talking about Ontario, Canada, Ontario, California or somewhere else entirely. :) I'm in the midwest, not close to either, but I, too, had a local dealer stop carrying Bluestar due to service issues, about two years after we bought ours from them. I've read at least one other similar story here, as well. I've read "it's so simple, anyone can fix it here" here more times than I count and, as an owner, I always roll my eyes. Sure, if YOU'RE an appliance repairman, or have one in the family, you can maybe do it yourself, but you still gotta get the parts from Prizer Painter. Which has, every single time we've needed some, been a HUGE hassle. Average delivery time for even the simplest item, like an ignitor -- and this is as recently as last year, for PAID parts, not Bluestar warranty repair -- is 6-12 weeks. Yep. The shortest repair timeline I've had in my ownership has been three months from report to repair. Also, be aware that, simple or not, most appliance repairmen won't accept a call for a brand they don't know, and Bluestar is still very much a niche product. Finding service, even though we're just outside a major Midwest metro, has always been a challenge; every single time. Made even worse by the parts delivery timeline, which makes service people that worked on it once real hesitant to work on it again, since they don't get paid (by our extended warranty company) until the repair is complete, and when you're waiting three months for parts ... That's a long wait. I've also been told more than once that Bluestar charges for parts when you order them; not when they ship. So the company is not only unpaid for their time, but out the cost of the parts, too. I was also told, and I have no idea if this has changed since it's been a long while, by repair people in the Bluestar warranty period that the rates they paid were quite low; below industry standard, at least for my area, making in-warranty service even more difficult to find. (Again, this could have changed, just reporting my 2007-08 experience.) My Bluestar RNB is now eight years old, but it's needed a LOT of service. Probably 20+ calls total. I'd say we average 2 a year now; a lot more in the early going. In fact, I just had to call for service again, because the spark module -- not the ignitor, the main electrical box that services multiple burners -- seems to have gone out, again. We replaced both boxes (one serves four burners, the other two), at least one multiple times, in the early going, but haven't had an issue with either of them since year two, until now. The other night I went to light a burner and nothing. No click, no spark, nada. And the same for the one behind it. Checked the wires, the connections, the breaker, made sure nothing was touching the drip tray, etc. No go, while the other burners and oven work fine, and these burners/ignitors, if swapped out with the working ones, work and spark normally. I won't go into all our other woes (there have been a lot), but the long and short is, when the Bluestar works, it's pretty great, at least the range top (I'm less enthusiastic about the oven overall, but it's not bad, per se), but getting service for it, and it's needed it often, has always, every single time, been a real pain in the patooty, to put it mildly....See Moredodge59
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