thats funny, I just took my 4 year old Stainless Steel, over the range , GE microwave to the dump. I didn't throw it away though, I boxed it up proper, manual and all and left it in the "leave stuff, take stuff" section. It had crazy functions like a scheduler, you could leave voice memos on it, and a slew of other features I never came close to using. Anything more than a popcorn button, as thats about all I use them for, is complete overkill imho.

The turntable went out on it at first, no big deal, just turn that off EVERY time you use it. Then a few months later the magnetron went on it. It was still under warrantee, but I had to pay the labor. It would have cost me more to fix it under warrantee that to go and buy a brand new one. After some quick research it turns out that GE is notoriously bad for prematurely failing magnetron's, so I reluctantly, decided to cut my loses.

It disgusts me, that in this day and age, our economy has become so disposable. Glad to hear your problem was simply a fuse.

go china! ftw!