Product review (3 stars): Engineered Design Flaw
Honestly, I have not purchased this yet. I need one and was floored to see what the price was on these things. As many have pointed out in their reviews, the price seems incredibly high. So I wanted to know why. I took my broken unit apart. At home, I have an inspection scope and used it to understand why the cost and what broke. First, I can see why this is so expensive. This, believe it or not, is a highly complex part when it comes to injecting molding. The tools to make these parts were not cheap. A great deal of engineering went into this part which is why I am a bit suspicious. The plastic section that brakes in this part was poorly designed compared to the rest of the unit. Most modeling software provides stress analysis that would pick this up and lead you to reinforce that section. Why I wonder? In my mind, this is an engineered failure point. If you think about; once you buy one of these pedestals, that's it. If you design in something that will fail several times in it's life time, that's some big money. What I will be doing is contacting Electrolux with my concerns and I encourage anyone to bombard their manufacturer with their displeasure regarding this part. This actually should be a recall. With all this said, a reasonable price should be $19.95 as the tooling has probably been paid for several times over by now.