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Yeah, and the flatscreens are constantly coming down in price. Soon, they'll be so cheap that no one will give you anything for a used one. Of course, that's assuming that you can find a used one that's actually worth repairing. I've heard many people talk about how common it is for caps to go bad; but, I haven't gotten lucky enough to find one of those. All the ones I find have expensive problems that I don't want to fix. At this moment, I have a 37" Sanyo LCD that my original intent was to fix and sell it. After spending $32 to replace one of the inverter transformers, it still had the same problem. Now, I could spend $50 on a new inverter board; but, I'm afraid it still wouldn't be fixed and I'd have over $80 in a POS that I couldn't do anything with. Even if I get it going, there's the chance that it will crap out in a day, week, or a month; and, the buyer will be jumping down my throat about it. As far as used TV sales, I need to just say that it was fun while it lasted and move on to something else. The only used TV I have for sale at the moment is an '84 19" Curtis-Mathes knob tuned color set. I finally let my flea market friend take it and I think he has $30 on it. He said a lot of people have looked at it; but, claimed they didn't have any money. I'll bet if it was an HD set for $30, they'd come up with some money in short order. Another woman expected a DTV converter to be thrown in and he told her that for the price he had on the TV, she could buy her own converter box. Another person was in shock that he wanted so much for such an old set and he told them that it was a working color TV and that they needed to go buy a new TV if that one wasn't worth $30 to them. After he told me all this, I told him not to come off the price and that if it didn't sell, I'd keep it for a spare TV. Unlike most people today, I don't have to have HD and I don't feel the need to "keep up with the Jones's". And, I don't care how old it is. If a working 19" color TV isn't worth $30; then, it's not worth my time to even fool with it. And, since most people have some sort of set top box (cable, satellite, or DTV), that old knob tuned TV will receive just as many channels as a new set. It's just that people want the "latest and greatest" and they want it for nothing.
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