What do y'all think about this asking price?

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Personally? No, I don't think it's worth that at all.

Someone here was trying to sell a KV-1543R for $450 locally. I don't get it, especially since I know they got it for free (beat me to it by an hour!)

One reason I can think of is the resurgence in retro gaming has everyone looking for high end Trinitrons that are have RGB or at least component inputs. Somehow this has translated into every Trinitron being worth its weight in gold (well maybe not quite... they're freakin' heavy).

It's probably also scarcity. The late 2000s/early 2010s saw everyone throw away their old CRT sets to upgrade and for a while you couldn't give away a really nice non-LCD TV. Now the stock is drying up and combined with a resurgence in everything retro, we're in a perfect storm of stupid pricing.