How Much are You Guys Paying for Broken TVs?

[Amraks]

Re: How Much are You Guys Paying for Broken TVs?

I'm just paying up 30 cents to a dollar a inch if they are plasmas a 30 to 50 cents.

Like you guys say hard to fix them. Some people aren't even willing to part with it for what I'm asking. Most recent one is one that was 6 years old I offered them 25 dollars for it, their reply was like wow we will just keep it.

Well have fun with that because not many people do what I am doing in my area.

I'm not going to ripped off nor do I think I am ripping them off, its a plasma parts are expensive for them. They wanted me to fix it I said 200 dollars above, then they told me what was wrong with it. They said it looked like a magnet went over the screen, so it was probably not really repairable.

[ntehicks]

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I usually pay about 1.00 an inch. Recently I picked up a 55" Toshiba full 1080 that had a burned up inverter the guy was asking 200 I offered him 100 and then it cost 40 to repair. My wife has decided to keep this one. I get about 1 to 2 tv's a month so far 100% success rate.

[tibimakai]

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The most taht I have paid is $125, but I try to keep it under $100. Most of them are around $50-$80. Though recently it slowed down the repair very much in LA area.

[drpj23]

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I usually will pay no more than $50.
I also will buy cracked screen models either to aid a repair on another tv (hey, $50 for all the parts (with a 90% chance they all work) is better than $70 for just one!) and I also part them out and sell.
But plasmas have not been my forte lately so I stay away from buying 2007 and younger but will always take a freebie.
I am currently working on 7 sets right now.

[kc8adu]

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i dont think i paid more than $50 for any of them.
got many free esp when i explain cost of just a lcd/pdp to replace a busted screen.
tearing down about 30 nec lcd4000 right now.these were the ones busted by incompetant staff at the city auction.most of these were still perfect till the idiots broke half the lot.these came from dayton intl airport.
otherwise i love these auctions.
where else can you score a mastr 2 repeater and 50 130w vhf spectra's for $100?

[electronicsurplus]

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We will pay $50 - $75 without broken screen and $25 with broken screen

[Freezer]

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Definitely everyone's region is different. I think I live in the ideal location. I live in a small college town, and people tend to give everything away for free. Right now I have 5 TVs and 3 computer monitors in my garage that I need to work on, all were free. Occasionally someone will ask $5 which I'm more than happy to pay. But it all works out, this is more of a hobby for me. If I am able to repair the TV/monitor I usually give it away to a friend or family member in need. Occasionally I'll sell one, and only ask enough to cover the cost of parts. To me it's about the challenge of trying to find and fix the problem, not make money by selling the repaired TV.

[Mike Jenk]

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Here in Virginia Beach, people think they are still gold with cracked screens and have a lot of "informed" people that research the INTERNET that claim its just a .99 bad capacitor, so they continue to ask $$$ for LCD/Plasma with it still not working. Just picked up a Samsung for parts, plasma PN51D with broken screen for 50 and they always start around 250.00 ++

[Hobby 1]

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Within the last year, I paid about $15 - $30 for a set with a bad screen, if it comes with a remote. For a set that I think is fixable, anywhere from $40 for a 22 inch to $125 for a 40 - 52 inch. Some sets I have gotten for less because of the condition (dirty or some neighborhood 'tech' has worked on it and bought Radio Scrap caps for it). Lots of buyers in my area, many pay less. I try and be a bit more fair. I used to pay more in the past when sets were more expensive but the market is getting cheaper and its harder to resell when every weekend some store has a sale on a crappy brand and buyers use that low price for comparison. I only buy the better brands. And some sellers still think that their broken screen set is worth $300 - $400 just because they paid over a thousand for it a few years ago. It is just a hobby for me and I have big screen sets in every room that have been paid for by the sets I fix and resell.