The sad state of the used tv market

[Chad Hauris]

What I would recommend if you are in the TV repair business is to:
1. diversify your income streams
and 2. change your repair focus to products which people WILL pay to repair.

We have a repair shop that specializes in Jukeboxes, PA amps, antique radios, tube stereo equipment, guitar amps, arcade machines, phono needles/cartridges etc. People have held on to these pieces of equipment and they WILL pay to have them fixed. We have more work out there then we can do at one time.

There is not too much out there to repair as far as TV's and much of the time the modern sets are not economically repairable. Most old TV's have been junked whereas the old jukes, guitar amps etc are still held in high regard and appreciation. We have done a very few TV's but most of the TV work we do is for our own collection.

Also I would recommend diversifying your income streams...My business partners and I all have other full-time jobs and we don't rely on the shop to support us solely, because even though we have a lot of work it still wouldn't be enough to make your whole living at.
If you are just working in the TV repair biz I would seriously recommend thinking about some of these changes now because I don't think that business will get any better.