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I've had mixed results when it comes to buying/selling/flipping CRT TVs specifically color sets, in Elkhart County, Indiana where I live none of the Thrift stores (GW mainly as the only SA that was left in my area closed its doors permanently at the beginning of the pandemic last year) haven't accepted CRT Televisions since 2014 (CRT TVs larger than 9") they still accecpt CRT TVs that are smaller than 9" (the ones that are the small 5" and smaller portable TVs with A/V Inputs and radios built into them), but I have found many older CRT TVs (B & W and Color sets) on facebook marketplace locally for for well under $100 and I've been able to get them fixed up and I've put them to use or sold them (or people I know from church have given me old CRT Televisions as well.
I've only ever bought a new TV once and it was a 15" LCD HDTV but it died after about a year and a half, other than that I've only ever bought used TVs or curb picked TVs and fixed them up and used them, until they died and were no longer able to be repaired anymore. I've got 3 small CRT TVs a Magnavox (Philips) 13" Color CRT TV from 1989 with its original remote which still works yet that I got from someone from Church, and I have a 9" Zenith Color TV (System 3) from 1986 that still works like brand new yet that I picked up from SA several years ago for $5, and then I have a 5.5" Montgomery Wards (Toshiba rebadged) portable color TV from 1984 that also works like brand new that also came from SA for $5 just shortly before they quit taking CRT TVs in 2014.
I use them mainly for bench testing VCRs that I work on and DVD Players and Video Game Consoles that I'm working on.
My Current HDTV is a 65" Smart Flat Panel TV that I "Trash picked" from the local recycling center at the grocery store (recycling center where you take cardboard boxes and glass jars and plastic jugs etc.) and it turned out the only thing wrong with it was that there was no more updates for the smart software on the TV, but everything else on it works fine, and I just use a Roku for the "smart" functions of the TV and I use a good quality Amplified HDTV Antenna for my OVA Channels (which there are over 30 channels in my area).
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