Post Number 401

The Yale Blog is actually 400 posts old as of yesterday. I have tried to start tagging each post(except this one), so you can access your interests quicker. Unfortunately, I have to tag the older posts....which I have not done. You can still do an old fashioned search


Thank you for reading and thank you to Shawn and Pat, who provide the pictures, slideshows and surveys....

New Products

Everyone know the new cars roll into the showroom in the late fall.....Early spring seems to be the time for appliances. I usually try to attend two shows, the New England regional and the much larger Kitchen and Bath Show next week in Chicago(beats working)....

Most manufacturers seem to be intrigued with exotic laundry colors...The most interesting pieces were the new Bosch 24 inch laundry with bigger capacity, which is great news for city dwellers and other tight closet applications. KitchenAid has their own double drawer dishwasher..

Have a look at the highlights...

Rebates...How to Buy A Bosch Kitchen

I am dedicating this weeks posts to the manufacturers penchant to rebate their own product. Todays contestant is Bosch. Lets look at a suite of really upscale appliances from this brand.



You are looking at a 30 inch ceran, double wall oven with convection on the top, a fully integrated french door refrigerator(love that look), an over the range microwave hood and a fully integrated dishwasher.

Bosch is a great value for a premium brand. This kitchen of appliances sells for about $10,000, but Bosch has $2,400 in rebates for the month of March...and this is an expensive package for this brand.

For people renovating with a smaller budgets and still wanting marquee labels, Bosch, like JennAir and KitchenAid is a great alternative.

Rebates..How to Save $1175

I blog about rebates, because rebates have become a huge part of our industry. We have listened to the car advertisements promising $500 cash back. Typically, the car averages $20,000 or more. So how about $1200 in rebates on a kitchen that is $7,000

The average breakage, however, or people who do not turn in rebates is 80-90% in groceries. So instead of lowering wholesale price, manuacturers bet on this "breakage". But $1175 is a little different than a coupon for 75 cents off that Green Giants peas.

Have a look at one example:

JennAir Pro kitchen: Dual fuel convection range, french door shallow depth refrigerator, over the range microwave hood and stainless interior dishwasher







Our delivered price $6774

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factory rebate 500
buying group 400
Yale Instant 275


Final $5599