Operation Jumbotron
The last time I bought myself a new TV was about ten years ago. I was living in the Victorian Hellhouse and when I was in So Cal visiting the parents I happened on a great deal for a huge TV. Well, huge for me, it was a 28" model. In my small apartment it took up a quarter of a wall. I drove it home and being by myself, it took me half an hour to get it out of the car and to literally roll the box upstairs, as it weighed slightly less than my car and there was no way I was going to lift it and injure myself. Hell, the guy at the TV store had loaded it into my car and it had stayed there until I got home 500 miles and a couple of days later. But when I hooked it up and turned it on, oh my, it was like a movie theater in my room.
That TV lasted about five years and then crapped out. But a great five years it was.
So I've been noticing that prices on electronics have plummeted lately and I started drooling over this 26" model. Yeah, two inches shorter on the diagonal but you know what? Its a widescreen, and a flatscreen. I didn't just buy it though. I checked around a little and even went to a local electronics store (and since they're awful I'll name them: Ultimate Electronics in Las Vegas. If you are a female no salesman will even make eye contact with you, let alone spoke with me. Even if you walk in specifically to buy something from them!)
They treated me worse than Henderson Hyundai, which says a lot because that's a used car lot, and they wasted two hours of my time trying to make me trade my car in for a crappy automatic POS and got hissy when I said I only drive manual transmission. How dare I not take the girly car they tried to foist upon me! I really believe the manager thought it was a slap to his manhood that I looked at the car he offered me and wouldn't even sit in it. Then he enlisted his second string sales guy who literally power walked me around the lot in the September heat without showing me a single car, just trying to wear me down with questions about why I'm so stuck up I can't take the car they want me to take off their hands. Hopefully the economy will kill what their crappy customer service has not yet managed to beat into a pulp.
Anyway, back to TVs, and the purchasing thereof. I went into crappy electronic store and I was more shocked than I should have been to find that the prices there were twice what the local warehouse store had.
So when I got my check and paid my rent and had money left over, I bought my new jumbotron. I walked in, grabbed the first guy with a nametag, had him get me a TV... and you know something?
Technology rocks. The box is about the size of the bag my last comforter set came in, and has a handle on the top. I carried it one handed up the stairs (no rolling! Yay!) and plugged it in.
Oh, yes.
I may be making too much of this whole thing, but I don't buy a lot of new things. I buy a lot of used things. But when I do buy new things, especially high end things, I want them to be fantastic. Like a car.
I love my car even though I also bought that from a crappy car dealer but I was in a bind and kind of had to buy a car NOW. And it's a manual and I love driving it.
And my TV is just... beautiful.
That TV lasted about five years and then crapped out. But a great five years it was.
So I've been noticing that prices on electronics have plummeted lately and I started drooling over this 26" model. Yeah, two inches shorter on the diagonal but you know what? Its a widescreen, and a flatscreen. I didn't just buy it though. I checked around a little and even went to a local electronics store (and since they're awful I'll name them: Ultimate Electronics in Las Vegas. If you are a female no salesman will even make eye contact with you, let alone spoke with me. Even if you walk in specifically to buy something from them!)
They treated me worse than Henderson Hyundai, which says a lot because that's a used car lot, and they wasted two hours of my time trying to make me trade my car in for a crappy automatic POS and got hissy when I said I only drive manual transmission. How dare I not take the girly car they tried to foist upon me! I really believe the manager thought it was a slap to his manhood that I looked at the car he offered me and wouldn't even sit in it. Then he enlisted his second string sales guy who literally power walked me around the lot in the September heat without showing me a single car, just trying to wear me down with questions about why I'm so stuck up I can't take the car they want me to take off their hands. Hopefully the economy will kill what their crappy customer service has not yet managed to beat into a pulp.
Anyway, back to TVs, and the purchasing thereof. I went into crappy electronic store and I was more shocked than I should have been to find that the prices there were twice what the local warehouse store had.
So when I got my check and paid my rent and had money left over, I bought my new jumbotron. I walked in, grabbed the first guy with a nametag, had him get me a TV... and you know something?
Technology rocks. The box is about the size of the bag my last comforter set came in, and has a handle on the top. I carried it one handed up the stairs (no rolling! Yay!) and plugged it in.
Oh, yes.
I may be making too much of this whole thing, but I don't buy a lot of new things. I buy a lot of used things. But when I do buy new things, especially high end things, I want them to be fantastic. Like a car.
I love my car even though I also bought that from a crappy car dealer but I was in a bind and kind of had to buy a car NOW. And it's a manual and I love driving it.
And my TV is just... beautiful.