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is great for appliances. Two years ago they had literally hundreds of postings on liebherr when you could only import them from Canada


http://ths.gardenweb.com/search/nph-ind.cgi?term=liebherr


http://ths.gardenweb.com/search/nph-ind.cgi?term=thermador+refrigerator

I haven't had experience with these two brands but I have a Conserve, another tall, skinny, 24-inch deep stainless refrigerator. We love it. You can find them at RCN at Broadway and 99th and you can see a picture if you put "Sugar Shack" into the AT archive search. It's in our slideshow for the "Smallest-Coolest" contest.

When living in Europe, landlords would proudly advertise that the house or apartment they were offering had "an American refrigerator". Unfortunately, we ended up with a European one and regretted it. The freezer never got really cold enough, the regrigerator had huge temperature variations. I asked about this and was told that energy constraints and bad engineering were to blame. I'd say it was a good idea to avoid European refrigerators altogether. And good luck getting it fixed.

Sharon-

What's "RCN"? Googled it and checked the White Pages, and nothing came up. Is it a general kitchen store?

Just a quick message re: the ConServe refrigerator at RCN... it's actually RCI Discount Appliance Inc at 2599 Broadway. I went there today (Dec. 30 2006) and they still have the fridge etc.
(I know I'm responding to messages that are over a year old, but it's still relevant.)

I've had the conServ for about 7 years and it has been great. Stay cold, freezer is amazin except that you need to defrost. Definitely recommend it
ann

The Liebherr is available in NYC at Krupps and it can be had online at homeclick. com:

http://www.homeclick.com/showpage.asp?catpath=Appliances%2FRefrigeration&manufid=771&i=cat&cm_ven=Google&cm_cat=Appliances&cm_pla=Leibherr&cm_ite=Liebherr%20refrigerator&cm_typ=General&cm_rnk=1&cm_mid=&cm_wid=H

The built-in model with ice maker is about $2300, not too bad for a small footprint full-feature refrigerator, that is also frost free. Many are NOT frost free, so be careful on some of the others mentioned.

I'm getting this Liebherr as soon as I can scrape the money together to redo my kitchen!

Just to be warned. The Liebherr, has great promise but what it lacks is customer service. The machine is loud, and very hard to service. I have a C1651 that is a 30" model. Owned it for one month and have yet to have it work. So far one service call resulted in a fix that only lasted 24 hours. Now they are replacing both compressors. Tell me would you want a fridge that is built in your house a second time? The technician gave me some good advice, stay away from Liebherr. When you call customer service you are calling not Liebherr but ADCO, a company contracted by Liebherr, then ADCO contacts out a service call. All this means is you are not talking to people who care about helping the brand, just controlling costs. Liebherr is well suited for the commercial market when its strong, but a competition with other appliance companies is proving fruitless. Personally I can not wait to swap mine out for a Sub Zero.