repaired TV sales have you noticed a very large decline

[ReeceyBurger123]

Re: repaired TV sales have you noticed a very large decline

Ive a 2003 Samsung 42" plasma set, all working well--Maybe its worth summit

Dont tell me its a PS42P3S I have the same one needs 5vstby repair though I should get about £40-£50 for it lol

[whiz62]

Re: repaired TV sales have you noticed a very large decline

I have had the repair bug now for 3 years and have repaired TV's for friends and neighbors and purchased many on craigslist to keep my hobby going. I look everyday in my area and I do see a decline because of new ones being so much cheaper.

Recently I had to get rid of some because I had no more room so I ran ads on Craigslist. I keep records on what I have in them and just want to move them but I get ridiculous offers at times. I did come come off asking price somewhat cause they needed to move. I still came out ahead.

Have learned to educate the seller on price for older models and have made some good deals lately. Got two Panasonic 42" and a 50" Plasma's for $130 and that includes repairs. These are for me.

I still pick up LCD's when I can get them really cheap, but not gonna pay more than $25.00 for at least a 42 something inch and I have a good idea what is wrong.

It is just a fun hobby for me. Don't think I could rely on it for steady income.

[CapLeaker]

Re: repaired TV sales have you noticed a very large decline

yep... in the box store I get a 40" RCA smart TV with Roku stick for CAD$260 that I can pay for on a CC. At that rate nobody cares if the TV lasts 2 or 3 years. Still better than 2k to 4K for a high end TV. I don't touch any LCD's with CCFL's anymore unless it is a friend.
I also noticed that folks are not spending any money, unless there is a deal on it. At the recycling depot one only finds utter junk, that no one wants anymore. I haven't even found an old stereo PA, a half decent PSU or anything that matter for quite some time now. So I do think the economy is stressed to the limit at least around here.

[comptek]

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one of my old favs is the classic i can collect now!
FOR SALE SAMSUNG 42" LED TV MINT CONDITION WIFI BUILT IN £170 ............
"give you £60 and can collect now" lol or they want it delivered 15 miles away, i always tell em to shove there £60

yes its been a battle lately i have found gumtree good for sales lately but it is slowing down

[ReeceyBurger123]

Re: repaired TV sales have you noticed a very large decline

one of my old favs is the classic i can collect now!
FOR SALE SAMSUNG 42" LED TV MINT CONDITION WIFI BUILT IN £170 ............
"give you £60 and can collect now" lol or they want it delivered 15 miles away, i always tell em to shove there £60

yes its been a battle lately i have found gumtree good for sales lately but it is slowing down

I got that, I was selling a brand new Samsung 55" 4K nano crystal Led Smart Tv for £600 and someone messages me saying "Hi will you take £300 for Tv, I need one as they stole my sons" my response was "no way in hell" lol piss takers I call them. I wanted to say "Do I give a fuck if they took your Tv? Whos they? So I have lose out because they took yours, no way piss off" But that would get me in trouble though lol people are sly like that and bullshit you to try to get sympathy.

[ReeceyBurger123]

Re: repaired TV sales have you noticed a very large decline

You wouldn't belive them amount of times I have had people say this or similar to this "my daughter has been rushed to hospital I will leave it" like wtf and I know they just said that not to buy something as I can see them commenting on something else someone selling for cheaper alot of the time. Sly pricks people are.

[comptek]

Re: repaired TV sales have you noticed a very large decline

yes had that too Reece lol its always laughable the excuses, i held a tv for a week for someone they said a week tuesday so tuesday came and i sent "hi still ok to drop the tv off today?" there reply was stop "Fu*****g bugging me and F**K off ! then blocked me lololol

[ReeceyBurger123]

Re: repaired TV sales have you noticed a very large decline

Haha I think I shown you the screen shot with my reply to that woman when it happened. I have a back up account for people who block me I then message them get talking then ask why they blocked me lol I only do that for time waster then name and shame them.

[Alastair E]

Re: repaired TV sales have you noticed a very large decline

Thats one very good reason--I Don't do farcefuck or twatter,--Too many goddamned timewasting gorks!

Simple emails and texts work ok for me! Easier to see the traders and booters offering daft money, got 'em saved, Long lists of texts. I message 'em back saying such like, --You have been messaging me since 2013 with crap offers, Same answer as always--Sod Off!

[tom66]

Re: repaired TV sales have you noticed a very large decline

I've all but quit the repair business, except for odd friends and for personal interest, there's just not enough money in it. I exclusively do engineering consulting now - pays a hell of a lot better! I've repaired a couple of test equipment items as well, but ended up keeping them for my personal interest. I suspect there's a lot more money there if you could get the faulty stuff cheap, but some sellers insist on absurd prices for faulty stuff.

I can pick up a new, fully working 55" 1080p OLED from LG for £1299 inc VAT. Yes, it's curved, and perhaps not as prestigious as a Panasonic PDP, but I'll bet it actually looks a little better. No one is paying £3k for an old Panasonic plasma.

[stj]

Re: repaired TV sales have you noticed a very large decline

you should see what the fucking bankers are hording!

a friend works in one of those places, told me they have a huge store-room filled with high end laptops, servers, big monitors etc - all faulty.

they wont sell or bin them because of all the paperwork they would have to fill in to please the tax agency or enviromental scum.

[Alastair E]

Re: repaired TV sales have you noticed a very large decline

If you ask me, 'bankers' is mis-spelled...

[ReeceyBurger123]

Re: repaired TV sales have you noticed a very large decline

Facebook is awesome, with out it I dont know how I would cope lol

[tom66]

Re: repaired TV sales have you noticed a very large decline

you should see what the fucking bankers are hording!

a friend works in one of those places, told me they have a huge store-room filled with high end laptops, servers, big monitors etc - all faulty.

they wont sell or bin them because of all the paperwork they would have to fill in to please the tax agency or enviromental scum.

It's the same for most companies.

E-waste companies won't pay much to dispose of the waste. Most of them charge per kilo. But they need the WEEE cert, which only the E-waste companies can provide.

If they just give the stuff away to the employees, they can't close the paperwork up, as some random employee is unlikely to be able to certify the equipment was reused appropriately and not dumped in some bin somewhere. And let's be honest that probably does happen sometimes...

When I worked at (nameless American multinational STB and satellitics company) we had to dispose of around 500 STB prototypes. These were assembled at a factory and were in every way completely functional UK Freeview HD receivers with 500GB or 1TB SATA HDDs in each. Every single one was crushed...for a very simple reason. Some of them had development software on them, and there was no way for us to determine, at a glance, if the box had "safe" (copy protected) firmware on board. If it didn't, then we couldn't sell it, because it could be used to rip off content (not that that doesn't happen already...) The company wasn't prepared to pay employees to go through and check every single box's firmware (which required us to dump the NAND and NOR and compare it to the reference article.) It was also not worth disassembling every box to extract the HDD, as it would have required 20-25 minutes per box.

As a result, they were all loaded onto a massive pallet, and crushed into small cubes, and recycled into raw materials. And the company paid for the privilege, about £10,000 if I recall correctly.