WeLuvDCL
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I just have to share this story with people that will really appreciate it. 
We have been wanting to upgrade our kitchen since the day we bought our house in May 2009. We had other items that needed to be fixed first, mostly the yard, landscaping and painting outside of house. We don't need to redo the entire kitchen, just want to replace the white appliances that are turning yellow and replace the stained formica countertop.
Last Thursday as I was driving home, I saw that someone about 10 house down the street from us had a Samsung stainless steel dishwasher that was sitting out by the curb with a FREE sign on it. I called DH and told him about it and luckily it was still there 2 hours later when he came home. It's digital so we figured their was probably something wrong with that part but we decided to give it a try anyway. He loaded it in the SUV and brought it home, the manuals were even inside. I googled the model number and it came out in 2008 so it can't be more than 3 years old. He finally had a chance to test it out this weekend. He hooked it up, put some dishes in and started it up. It made a grinding noise for a few seconds, then the grinding stopped, it ran for about 1 minute and then showed a LE error code.
So back to google I went. I googled model number and error code and someone posted with same problem and how they fixed it. Hubby followed their steps and then also cleaned the inside of the diswasher thoroughly. (It was disgusting! He had to soak and scrub some of the parts to get the grease off.) He hooked it back up, I put some dishes in and it ran like a charm. Very quiet and clean dishes. Still running good through 2 more cycles!!
I googled one more time to see how much money we saved and this dishwasher sold brand new for $899.
The next day after we picked up the dishwasher. DH was on his weekly shopping trip with DD to Home Depot (DD3 likes to go to ride the lawnmowers so it's a Daddy and me ritual on his day off...lol) He went to the appliance section and saw a sign that said there was an additional 20% off clearance appliances so he started looking around. He found a LG stainless steel double wall oven marked down to $899 from $3199! And a mathcing LG stainless cooktop marked down to $249 from $1099! With an additional 20% off those prices! He called me and I thought he was joking. He gave me the model numbers to look up on-line and I immediately said "Buy Them!" They were display appliances but the guy at HD even printed out the manuals for us.
In 2 days, we scored 3 stainless appliances for under $1200 including tax! And 2 of them are pratically brand new - never been used display models! 
Thanks for letting me share my excitement!
We have been wanting to upgrade our kitchen since the day we bought our house in May 2009. We had other items that needed to be fixed first, mostly the yard, landscaping and painting outside of house. We don't need to redo the entire kitchen, just want to replace the white appliances that are turning yellow and replace the stained formica countertop.
Last Thursday as I was driving home, I saw that someone about 10 house down the street from us had a Samsung stainless steel dishwasher that was sitting out by the curb with a FREE sign on it. I called DH and told him about it and luckily it was still there 2 hours later when he came home. It's digital so we figured their was probably something wrong with that part but we decided to give it a try anyway. He loaded it in the SUV and brought it home, the manuals were even inside. I googled the model number and it came out in 2008 so it can't be more than 3 years old. He finally had a chance to test it out this weekend. He hooked it up, put some dishes in and started it up. It made a grinding noise for a few seconds, then the grinding stopped, it ran for about 1 minute and then showed a LE error code.
So back to google I went. I googled model number and error code and someone posted with same problem and how they fixed it. Hubby followed their steps and then also cleaned the inside of the diswasher thoroughly. (It was disgusting! He had to soak and scrub some of the parts to get the grease off.) He hooked it back up, I put some dishes in and it ran like a charm. Very quiet and clean dishes. Still running good through 2 more cycles!!
I googled one more time to see how much money we saved and this dishwasher sold brand new for $899.The next day after we picked up the dishwasher. DH was on his weekly shopping trip with DD to Home Depot (DD3 likes to go to ride the lawnmowers so it's a Daddy and me ritual on his day off...lol) He went to the appliance section and saw a sign that said there was an additional 20% off clearance appliances so he started looking around. He found a LG stainless steel double wall oven marked down to $899 from $3199! And a mathcing LG stainless cooktop marked down to $249 from $1099! With an additional 20% off those prices! He called me and I thought he was joking. He gave me the model numbers to look up on-line and I immediately said "Buy Them!" They were display appliances but the guy at HD even printed out the manuals for us.
In 2 days, we scored 3 stainless appliances for under $1200 including tax!
And 2 of them are pratically brand new - never been used display models! Thanks for letting me share my excitement!
WOW! doing the happy dance for you! 
