Comments | windexcowboy: TVs.

windexcowboy

TVs.

May 29, 2006 22:08

Do people still repair TVs? and is it worth doing? I came home today to find my Samsung HDTV had bit the dust, despite being well taken care of, plugged into a UPS and all of that ( Read more... )

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periol May 30 2006, 05:05:00 UTC

i don't know your definition of cheap, but there are still television repair operations out there - it's just rarely worth it. my guess would be $200 for the repair job, but it could be more if you have to pay for shipping for it to go somewhere.

agent179 May 30 2006, 06:52:21 UTC

There's a TV repair place on Kings Rd. I think. Down closer to the train station. So you may not have to ship it somewhere.

Yeah mrfantasy May 30 2006, 13:41:20 UTC

They're a Sony shop by what they sell but I bet they repair all sorts of stuff. Of course the thing's like 100 pounds so you'll have to figure out how to get it there. But you got it up the stairs once, I suppose.

Re: Yeah mrfantasy May 30 2006, 13:42:20 UTC

Or you can figure out some way to swap it out with your co-worker's nearly identical TV and then they'll just think it got broken during the move . . .

Replacing mrfantasy May 30 2006, 13:49:37 UTC

Best Buy is selling what I assume is the descendant of your TV for about $560.

So if it's going to cost more than about 2/3 of that to repair, it's probably worth replacing.