The 3 pack of the GE brand is $105.

I found this which looks similar and half the price: Water Filter

What do you think - is the Amazon one (made in China) a piece of junk, or does it perform as well?

My LG French Door works just fine with the generic brand. I change ours about every 2 years. We’re on a private well with good water out of the ground.

I get generic ones online and they work just fine for my fridge.

I think the brand name stuff is a racket just like brand name shaving razors are.

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Originally posted by mcrimm:
My LG French Door works just fine with the generic brand. I change ours about every 2 years. We’re on a private well with good water out of the ground.

2 years?

Mine says to change every 6 months

I did let it go to 1 year this time and honestly could not taste any degradation in water taste.

My LG fridge says 6 months. I buy them through Amazon Subscribe & Save so a new one automatically arrives every 6 months and I get the Subscribe & Save discount (10% off the already outstanding Amazon price).

For the first time, I'm trying an aftermarket filter that is NSF 42, 53, and 401 certified. It gets excellent reviews and is 67% less than the actual LG brand (Amazon price to Amazon price).

Amazon brand work fine.

The Amazon and every other after-market brand I have used have worked fine my GE fridge.

It shouldn't be rocket science to build and sell a good water filter.

That said, most people who use water filters have no way to tell whether the filter is doing everything it should be.

A product category like that is rife with profit potential for underdelivering, and what protects people from that is buying from a source that has something to lose by bad publicity. Original make is fine, of course (GE for GE fridge, e.g.), and something branded by (not just sold by) a solid company (Amazon, Home Depot, Lowes, etc.) is fine. Their name and assets back the product and if something went wrong that would hurt them. This gives them the incentive to do a good job outsourcing and doing ongoing QA on production.

However, I wouldn't buy no-name offshore brands for stuff that I'm planning on consuming, even if sold by Amazon (or any other merchant) just to save money. No way, Jose. I'm betting the folks that got the melamine in their baby formula thought they were saving some change.

For water filters, there's too much incentive to cheat, and for non-brand-name suppliers, too little penalty for getting caught.

I buy Amazon generic for my LG. I reset it at 6 months and change the filters every 12 months. City water.

We tried the generic Amazon filters once for our LG. The water tasted odd. Thinking it might go away, I ran a few pitcher’s worth through it and still tasted odd. I decided not drink water filtered through mystery Chrinese materials and went down to Home Depot and bought the LG brand filters. Water immediately tasted fine. Ymmv.

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Originally posted by P220 Smudge:
We tried the generic Amazon filters once for our LG. The water tasted odd. Thinking it might go away, I ran a few pitcher’s worth through it and still tasted odd. I decided not drink water filtered through mystery Chrinese materials and went down to Home Depot and bought the LG brand filters. Water immediately tasted fine. Ymmv.

Which are made in China...

Yeah, probably. All I know is I can taste the difference. The name brand tastes like water. The generic ones tasted like chemicals. *shrug*

Filters should be NSF 42 and 53 certified. Many good filters made in USA. The activated carbon inside is typically made from coconut shell and imported from Asia but not China as China has only one small coconut production area. Coal based activated carbon made in USA not used as it contains heavy metals. Some filters add filtration media to remove heavy metals (lead, mercury, and arsenic) in the water, all filters remove chlorine, chloramines and most orgamic chemicals. Filters life depends on incoming water quality could be 6 months to 2 years.

Tagged. Good to know. Thanks.

We use the amazon ones...Lowe’s filter is too expensive

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Originally posted by PASig:

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Originally posted by mcrimm:
My LG French Door works just fine with the generic brand. I change ours about every 2 years. We’re on a private well with good water out of the ground.

2 years?

Mine says to change every 6 months

I did let it go to 1 year this time and honestly could not taste any degradation in water taste.

My fridge tells me when to change. Then it asks me if I did. I lie to it twice before I change it.

I tried cheaper filters. Did not last long. Did not taste good. Did not filter as well. Went back to LG brand. It's a few bucks, if you search online for the name brand devices.

The generic filters are made by the same manufacturer as the other off brand filters sold on Amazon.

I've had no problems with the Amazon branded generic filters.

I use the EveryDrop filters for my fridge, and have been very happy so far.
I have been tempted to try the Amazon Basic version, but was hesitant to change what has been working.

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Originally posted by Seotaji:
The generic filters are made by the same manufacturer as the other off brand filters sold on Amazon.

I've had no problems with the Amazon branded generic filters.

The ones I bought looked physically different. I worked in manufacturing. In my experience, no, it was not the same product. There's no way those two different filters came out of the same place. At least for my specific brand of fridge and what filter it takes.