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Agreed. My wife browses all the expensive appliance sites. Stainless has a nice finish which must be kept smudge-free. Stainless pans can develop water-spotting and lime deposits, don't kid yourself. There is such a thing as stainless steel polish, and it's needed if you want to keep your pans all shiny-new looking.
"Stainless" steel is called such mainly because it doesn't rust. For that reason, it was the first good substitute for silver in good-quality table-settings. Stainless is easier to maintain and easier to keep clean than other kinds of cooking surfaces, so for things like food prep counters and cooktops, it's great if you can justify the cost. In dishwashers, a stainless-steel interior is superior because soap scum and residue doesn't build up on the steel as much as it would on the traditional plastic interiors, and you don't end up so much with little flakes of old soap on your dishes after a couple of years.
But I honestly don't know what the advantage of a stainless steel refrigerator would be. It might be a little easier to keep clean on the inside -- if it _is_ steel on the inside -- and it might hold the cold a little better. But the few people I know who've gotten them, get them for their looks, to match other stainless appliances in the kitchen, and I don't know that this justifies the higher price.
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