Product review (5 stars): Saved us at least $125
Our Whirlpool clothes washer, which is maybe five or six years old, stopped draining. Various articles on the web stated that there was about a two-thirds chance that a broken switch was the reason. It could also have been a bad pump (much more expensive) or just something stuck in the drain line (a bit of a pain to find and remove).

You can test to see if the electrical connection with the switch is good, but we didn't have a tester. To the touch the switch part that is activated by closing the lid seemed broken, and the part was so cheap with free shipping that we took a chance and just ordered it.

Buying and installing it ourselves saved us at least $125 in appliance service fees.  We carefully followed a YouTube video on how to take off the old part from our washer and replace it with this new one.  I wouldn't say it was a snap, and it took us probably an hour and a half in total -- watching and rewatching the how-to video, pushing back the top control panel  and removing the "skin" or cover of the washer (fairly easy), installing it (easy, though you've got to move the washer cover and lay it down) and then (the hardest part) getting everything back together and setting the washer back properly on its base.  Our washer is not exactly new so there was some rust on the bottom of the base, which made getting the cover seated properly took several tries. Now that we've done it once, we could do it a lot faster and easier the next time, if we ever have to do it again.

We plugged in the power cord, turned the Whirlpool on, and presto, it worked perfectly.

Anybody with a couple of basic tools and an hour or so could probably replace this part. I would say that two people working together makes the job much easier. My spouse and I worked on it together on a Saturday morning.

Delivery from the vendor was within the time frame promised, but don't expect the same kind of two-day rapid delivery that you get on orders fulfilled directly by Amazon. I think delivery took about a week. The part itself is a bargain.