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A sad state of affairs. I have watched the ads in the classifieds for the little tv shop down in Berlin & I guess they used to get close to $100 for used 19" sets then the price kept dropping, $75, $65, $55, finally bottomed out at $35. I think the newest ad was back up to $45. I know you can't afford to do much to a tv set for that amount of money. I know used tv's were a good business at one time. There were a couple vendors at Bargain Bill's flea market & all the used furniture stores had a row of sets. The first line of your post says it all. When even a good, working, modern set won't sell for a dollar, why is someone going to bother even trying to sell a 40 year old tv?
The tv we have in the bedroom is a 13" Samsung that my wife picked up when we were in KY/OH. Got it for $35 at an indoor flea market. The vendor has a large booth full of used electronics. I've been to his place probably 6 times over the last 4 years & I have no idea how he sells enough to pay the rent. Most of the inventory just sits & sits. It was Wal*Mart that did this, of course. If it wasn't for them most folks would still be buying their sets from hometown tv shops; they would pay high prices, probably double or more what those Flung Dung sets are going for now at Wally World. That would keep the price of used sets high, as well. Old Wal*Mart isn't evil, they just play havoc with the economies here in small town America.
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Bryan
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