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All the "thrift" stores around here have not yet gotten the message, either. I have a friend, who is in the resell business, and he buys ultra-cheap TV's to resell. He has no problem buying 13"-20" CRT sets for $10, or less. Here lately, he's had no problem selling CRT TV's; but, $25 seems to be absolute top dollar for a later model 20" CRT set. He doesn't like to fool with anything over 20" because they are too big and heavy. In other words, they don't bring enough money to justify the amount of room they take up and how heavy they are. I think the main people buying CRT sets from him are the poor and people who want a cheap TV for the kitchen or kid's room.
Sometimes, he finds older knob-tuned TV's at yard sales and if he can get them cheap enough, he grabs them for me.
He did tell me that some of the yard sale people are still living in the past. At one sale, they had a 25" console for $100. Another sale had a 12" B&W for $25. He tried to get them down on the B&W set because he knows I like them; but, they would not budge. There was a time I could have gotten $25 for a 12" B&W, back in 1990. The last one I actually sold was about 10 years ago for $5.
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