Product review (5 stars): 99% chance there is nothing wrong with your latch if your striker broke it just needs reset.
THIS STRIKER WILL FIX YOUR WASHING MACHINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mine just broke so i ordered a new one to replace it. I read so many comments on here about even after replacing this striker the door will not close even though the striker looks perfectly identical to the old one it replaced. This is because when the striker broke the internal latch stayed in the closed position. There is a VERY good chance the $60 latch is fine it just needs to be opened back up to accept the striker. I did this by taking the striker out of the machine and opening the thing up to see what was wrong. You can probably get it to work again without taking everything apart if you stick a flat blade screwdriver in the latch and use some pressure and flip it back up. If not and you are a handy person you can remove the latch and open it up and reset it. There is a metal bar in there that i slid out and it popped backwards. When i stuck the rod back in i tried to insert the striker and it worked and saved me $60.

It's like on a car door, when i was a child i closed the latch on my moms car door when it was open with my fingers because i liked the click sound it made. Then when my parents tried to shut the door it would not close because the latch was in the closed position. The only way to get the door to open again was to pull on the door handle while pulling the latches back out with your fingers.