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Which is why I always laugh when people say to replace a 15 year old fridge to "save" on electricity. Why? It's as cheap as the wind, making and shipping a new fridge isn't.
Really depends on how much your electricity costs relative to your efficiency gain on the new fridge.
But refrigerators are also largely a "solved" technology. We aren't radicallu changing how we run a compressor or insulate a unit. I ended up getting a new one recently because my old refrigerator's repair bill was going to be as much as a new unit.
Now, if units were more modular and easier/cheaper to repair? The math changes.
"I'm going to spend $1500 so I can save $8/month."
... For quite a few years and it pays itself back in 15/16 years, after which it probably still works for another 5 to 10 years.
Unless of course the manufacturer hamstrings it well before that time.
See: Samsung