Midea upright freezers SUCK!!!
I bought a large upright freezer from Lowes on 12/29/24, it was delivered on 12/30/24. It was plugged in and working fine. I transferred two years of frozen venison (approx 150 lbs) from garage freezer to new Midea freezer. Then got rid of old freezer. On February 1st, I noticed a foul smell in pantry and opened freezer to see my venison had turned brown and had a few shrink wrapped freezer packages had leaked blood. Freezer was warm inside and meat is spoiled. No Alarm, no indicator lights. Freezer fan and light were working fine, compressor was not operating. I unplugged waited 3 minutes and plugged back in, same issue-no compressor. I was a couple days outside of 30 days purchase so Midea dispatched a service technician instead of Lowe’s issuing a refund. Technician arrived days later to say compressor was seized and whole unit needed to be replaced. Again this is an $800 brand new freezer!!! Lowe’s is trying to see when they’ll have a replacement unit available to swap out and Midea is offering $150 for 150 lbs of venison. Shit product, shit service!