Nostalgic dialog: buying & selling used TVs

[radiotvnut]

I was talking to a friend that owns a shop and he seems to think that the sale and repair of used "regular" TV's may get better. He says that if you look at the sale papers; they are not pushing those cheap CRT sets. They are pushing the high $$ flat panel stuff. He says that there's a lot of people that can't afford the new stuff and might pay a little for a used CRT set. $100 for a used CRT set would be better than $600+ for a flat TV. He says his "regular TV" repair business has picked up over the past few months. When I was there the other day, someone brought in for repair a mid '80's 19" Emerson with rotary tuner. I did remind him that there will still be a lot of people that will do without food to get the newest TV and would not look twice at an old set. I also reminded him that in a few years flat TV's will be pretty cheap. I guess time will tell.