Appliance dealer: Appliance manufacturers commonly modify existing models without giving the modified versions new model names  Some people have complained that this practice makes it impossible for consumers to be certain that the appliance they are about to purchase is identical to the one they may have seen at a neighbor' s or read about in a consumer magazine  Yet manufacturers' modifications to existing models are invariably improvements that benefit the buyer
Ttherefore, consumers have little reason to object to this practice
Appliances usually carry a model number that provides substantially more detailed information about the product than does the model name.