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At our shop we have been able to sell some of the good quality modern 27" sets that we have fixed, such as JVC's and Magnavoxes from the late 80's/early 90's, as a replacement to people who come in with sets that have fairly big problems.
We then take the old one in as a trade in to use for parts.
We were able to sell a late 1980's GE ctc-169 console to a lady who had a 1988 RCA with power supply problems. She preferred the console style. We have found though that mostly what we sell is service, that of repairing the client's set or if it's a modern one with big problems, that of providing a good reconditioned subsitute.
We really have not been able to sell TV's outright as that kind of customer usually will be looking at the wal-mart etc to buy rather than a service shop.
I did donate a lot of working 1980's sets that I got from Texas Recycles Day to the Helping Hands thrift store and most of them sold.
I think though unfortunately b/w sets are kind of disliked by the general publi c because you can get a 13" color set so cheap like $79.00 and people are too used to color these days.
I know the touch pad works by causing a change in capacitance when touched that causes an osc. frequency to change, and that change is detected and used to switch whatever gets switched. I would help out on the sams too but I don't think our library goes that recent.
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