Hi,
I don’t seem to be able to find any reviews for Hisense washing machines using the search on the choice, or via Google. (+hisense site choice com au +washing +machine)
Also can you do Boolean searches on the Choice page https://mc.libguides.com/c.php?
Looking at the most recent washing machine reviews that Choice has done, Hisense isn’t a brand included in the reviews. This means Choice hasn’t recently reviewed Hisense washing machines.
Choice has reviewed other Hisense products such as fridges and and TVs.
Welcome to the Community, @renovator.
The link you gave doesn’t exist, and https://mc.libguides.com/ is Mississippi College LibGuides, which doesn’t sound like it’s related to Choice.
Hisense also owns the some of the Toshiba brand (it seems only the electronics part), if that is of any help. @mark_m was able to find the other part was sold to Midea (Midea Australia Official Website | World's Number 1 Appliance Manufacturer).
No, you cannot use Boolean searches on either the Community or the choice.com.au site.
You could use another search engine and such as with Google require searching of a particular site using in the case of CHOICE site:choice.com.au (note not site choice.com.au (a space between site and the site name) in the query). Though running several searches with various terms did not show any hits for any Hisense washing machine on the choice.com.au site.
For the Community site use site:choice.community in the search terms. Bing and Yahoo as well should allow searches using these operators. Not every search engine supports all the options as Google do. Again no hits regarding Hisense washing machines.
That’s exactly how I search CHOICE and other forums (most of which don’t have a good search function either).
Note that @renovator did say they used Google and didn’t find any HiSense washing machine reviews.
Looking to Canstar which redirected to Appliances Online they have 3 models shown with just 19 reviewers ratings. Most relatively recent and the oldest from Aug last year. This suggests Hisense have only recently chosen to market WMC under their brand in Australia. As a comparison other popular brands such as Fisher & Paykel have thousands of consumer ratings across their range with some models showing results from many hundreds of consumers.
It’s not to say Hisense is a poor choice. First impressions are not necessarily the most reliable. It may take some time to establish a reputation. Choice where there is a large number of brands and models (such as Washing Machines) tends to focus on brands and models which are more popular. Perhaps in the next round of testing Choice may pick up the range? Although it’s unlikely there will be a reliability rating until Hisense have both volume and time in the market.
There is an older topic on this site that refers to a Hisense model, but as the issue was for a machine model now 6 years past. As it is so old it may not have any bearing on the reliability or service for newer models.
