Discontinuing Your Choices

Discontinuing products, or ones that are similar to others they produced, is really annoying!

I get that things change.. tastes evolve and adjustments are made. What is annoying though is when companies will put out a product line and then make changes to that line even though it's actually a pretty decent one, and it looks different. The funny thing too is that I work on the company side, so I completely understand the need to make changes to product lines and things like that. It just sucks when you're a victim of that change!

What am I referring to here? Ceiling fans! LOL. You know you're old when you are shopping for, and complaining about, ceiling fans :D.

We decided that we need to install a couple ceiling fans in our place, as it helps a lot with summers and warmer weather, and even on the random days in the off season when we get a hot patch but don't necessarily want to turn on the air conditioning. The ceiling fans also come with a light, which we sadly don't have on the ceiling.. which is absolutely asinine in my opinion but that's a rant for another day. The light is one thing that I've been sorely looking forward to for a long time!

We installed a fan in our living room years ago, but made the unfortunate mistake of not getting it installed in both of the bedrooms while we were doing it. Damn did we pay for that mistake LOL the freaking fan that we bought downstairs is no longer sold! Fuckers!

It's not a huuuuuuge issue to have fans that are a little bit different but it goes back to that annoying thing: resale value. If you have a wild mixture of formats and shit on the things in your place, people will really dislike it and you will get some pushback. I guess in the ridiculous markets that are around right now it's not as much of an issue, but for normal times, if you've got a bunch of different fan styles and light styles going around, that's a detractor for buyers.

The crazy thing as well: I couldn't get the things off the company's website! They have a website for sure, but it's mainly troubleshooting and shit, not selling any of their products which is incredibly strange. You'd think that a company would love to sell direct to consumers instead of being tied into a relationship with stores and stuff. I was incredibly surprised on that end, but maybe if I locate the model number I can contact them and see if I can purchase one directly that way, but they can't advertise it? Really strange..

We are likely going to end up going with a similar color fan, but what annoys me is that the light is completely different than the one we've got in the downstairs area. I'm not a big pain, but when it comes to consistency for these things, I do prefer to have one thing throughout instead of a mix-match hodge-podge type stuff. We will see what we end up getting, I've looked online a bunch at the local hardware stores and found some that appear acceptable, but that hasn't gone through the wife-test yet to see if she agrees :D.

What about you, do you find it annoying when companies do this, discontinuing products that don't seem to have any issues with it? Let me know in the comments!