Look at what someone posted on CL

[radiotvnut]

My friend, who sells stuff at the flea market, went to some yard sales in an attempt to find things to flip. He said he saw plenty 19" TV's that worked fine for $5 and $10. Did he buy any of them? Nope, because we already have TV's that no one is interested in. He bought one 13" TV/VCR combo for $2 that was supposed to be broken; but, it turns out that the channels only needed to be programmed into it's channel memory. He said that if he could get $20 for it, he'd be real happy. He did see a 12" B&W at a yard sale for $15. He tried to reason with the woman who had it; but, she let him know that the price was $15, take it or leave it. She probably thought that if a working TV wasn't worth $15 to someone; then, they don't need a TV. I can understand that; but, I can also understand that with current TV trends, you'd be lucky to give away a 12" B&W.

There's only one type of person, besides collectors, that will buy a CRT TV - the type who can not afford anything else. Just the other day, someone called me to see if I had any TV's. He said he'd just moved to town, didn't have a lot of money, and just wanted something to watch. He said all that the stores had were flat panel sets that he couldn't afford and the pawn shops wanted a minimum of $150 for anything they had. I had a 19" 2004 BPC Symphonic and an '88 19" Sony Trinitron in a woodgrain plastic case. I had both TV's connected to the DTV converter and, of course, the old Sony had the best picture and that's the one he bought for $30. I used to get more than that for a 19" B&W and there was a time when I never sold a 19" remote/cable ready color TV for less than $100.

I wonder how long it will be before we can buy 32" flat panels for $99 at wal-mart?

Whatever, I'll just keep using my old tube TV's that no one else wants.

[DaveWM]

if you want a tv you can just drive around before garbage pickup.

I got a perfect 32" stereo tv with built in digital tuner. guy had just put it out on the curb, I asked he said sure, and even offered to help me put it in the back of the truck.

He told me it worked fine and it does, nice pic no issues at all.

if they dont work its prob just a 75cent cap that can be quickly found with a ESR meter. That was my other freebe, another 32" stereo around 2005 vintage.

[freakaftr8]

This is good for the people that cannot afford the new biggist and baddest flatscreens (which in my opinion wont last as long as the freee CRT they just trashpicked). Like me, I see these 27" and 32" CRT sets all over the curbs lately. Working with a free sign on them.

As for the Walmart sets, I agree, entry level sets. My brother bought one in 2007. Dead. I just got done replacing 15 or so lytics in the PS to det it working again. But the blue and green lines running down the screen kinda are hard to ignore. This was a Walmart $500 dollar set too. Made by ILO.

Originally Posted by DaveWM

if you want a tv you can just drive around before garbage pickup.

I got a perfect 32" stereo tv with built in digital tuner. guy had just put it out on the curb, I asked he said sure, and even offered to help me put it in the back of the truck.

He told me it worked fine and it does, nice pic no issues at all.

if they dont work its prob just a 75cent cap that can be quickly found with a ESR meter. That was my other freebe, another 32" stereo around 2005 vintage.