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Originally Posted by oldtvman
If you plan on making a living at repairing tv's these days you might want to have an alternative income source, because in the summer,most shops have very little to do, it is extremely hard to make a living in consumer electronic repair these days
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I think that depends on where you live.Around here in lower Delaware and the Eastern Shore of MD is a resort area. In the summer there are thousands of vacationers and tourists and the motel rooms,condos and vacation homes have tvs that break due to sitting all winter, power surges and especially lightning.A lot of people are still trying to hold on to their older tvs until they have to replace them also.But you need to be able to repair tvs from the 90s to early 2000s and especially projection tvs as people are more likely to get them repaired and the new technolgy tvs. The new stuff(Plasma,DLP and LCD) are board level and lamp changes. You still have to understand what is going on and do some troubleshooting before you order boards. Ordering the wrong board and restocking fees can get pretty costly.And in home service of the large tvs is where the money is,not in carry in.We do some warranty work to keep work coming in during the slow times.I take all the projection tvs people don't want fixed and sell them. I don't take anymore portable tvs people want to give to me anymore. The used market for tvs under 36" is pretty much dead. Can't sell them.Unless you're dealing with people like on this forum. But for the general public forget it.Our shop is full of 27" tvs that are almost impossible to sell anymore.And there's an upright 27" console tv some people never picked up after the repair we can't give away. The last console like that sat in the shop for 3 years and we had to sell it dirt cheap.