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How Often do you replace a TV or why the TV Black Friday Madness ?
Bluescope
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The images and videos from the midnight opening of the Black Friday sales seemed like chaos. People fighting over cheap and often poor quality TV's at what i will admit are decent prices.
A part of me did feel like i was missing out. Surely these are great deals if people are getting into fights over then. But then I thought what the heck do I need another TV for ?
My current main TV is about 5-6 years old but a nice Sony flat screen. I was thinking surely now most people have flat screen's ones why the panic and everyone trying to buy them now ?
So I was wondering how often do you replace your TV set ? Do you upgrade to a new model every few years or wait until the one you have breaks down. Can you quite explain why the mad rush for TV's ?
A part of me did feel like i was missing out. Surely these are great deals if people are getting into fights over then. But then I thought what the heck do I need another TV for ?
My current main TV is about 5-6 years old but a nice Sony flat screen. I was thinking surely now most people have flat screen's ones why the panic and everyone trying to buy them now ?
So I was wondering how often do you replace your TV set ? Do you upgrade to a new model every few years or wait until the one you have breaks down. Can you quite explain why the mad rush for TV's ?
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1)Ebay
2) Make a profit
3) Brag to friends
4) Count the cash
No more TVs wanted here until some OLEDs come along at a sensible price.
I looked at new ones (Smart) and the picture quality was dramatically enhanced so I bough one at a reasonable price.
Last week I saw a very large curved screen in John Lewis and that picture is stunning but at a couple of grand I'll wait thanks.
So I'll replace my TV if,
1 if it had deteriorated
2 if the technology has advanced so much and the price has dropped
Not really considering the makes of the TV's.
I think the people that get involved in these midnight scrums deserve everything they get, they are being whipped up into a frenzy by the retailers who more often than not blatently lie about the savings to made. If you wait a couple of weeks you'll often get the item for the same price or only £10/20 more.
Too many gullible folk out there.
I'm the same, I don't replace things when a newer model comes out kind of thing.
I bought my current TV when I was 40 when I decided to upgrade to a flat screen. So that's 3 tellies so far in my adult life.
Don't ask me how many washing machines I've gone through since I was 16, I've lost count. They sure don't last as long as TVs.
However, my Dad bought us 2 small flat screen TVs from an M&S discount store. I don't know how much they cost but we have one in our bedroom and one in the kitchen. They are rubbish though. Unless you are stood immediately in front of them the picture goes shadowy and black. A complete waste of time and if I had the money I would replace them.
Ditto
I was wondering how many people are getting home and finding damaged etc products that they'd just fought tooth and nail for
Cant help but wonder if this is to do with online culture, the internet exisits without boarders, but ALOT of the people on it are in Amercia and as such and can reflect US culture more than others (internet shopping could be argued as similar) but Brits have seen Black Friday on the internet, and think they want one for themselves, certainly the shops have taken that attitude. Thanks giving is like a starting pistol for US shoppers, but we dont have that here, so we dont really need that starting pistol, yet this year its almost an exact copy of the US Black Friday.
I dont want to say "lessons need to be learnt" but juding by the crowds, store were worefully unprepared for the demand, hopefully they do it better next year.
Im not pleased with either store or customers today.
My last tv lasted 15 years, it was replaced by a flatscreen which was a good cheap price anyway.
What is the matter with these cretins?? They end up being jostled or get into a fight- over a poxy tele? Electric kettle? CRETINS.
That said, I'll get a new TV when the existing one breaks or when I can no longer control my craving for one which enables me to plug my USB in and play mpg, MP4 and MKV files. Until then I'll happily play them through my laptop via a VGA cable connected to the TV.
I had a Philips 100hz that was replaced after 15 years this year; still perfect and I couldn't give it away
Neither did we until recently when we had to replace my dad's - it's cheap and cheerful but not bad at all.
This sale thing is ridiculous though, a colleague today got a call from her hubby who was at Tesco saying they had (I think) 60inch tvs for £300 and should he get one? They don't need one, at all, he just thought it was a bargain
I imagine they have a blank screen when you switch them on, then appear in grainy black and white and after about a minute they turn full colour.
That's okay, but shaking the screen dry afterwards requires a crane.
Fair point, but I was thinking about the supermarket stuff that people are fighting over.