Got the best deal on a flatscreen TV ever

[LoveBWVVBR]

Last week I found a flatscreen TV (with the remote) sitting on the curb on trash day. It looked like a nice TV so I figured I'd take it home and try it. Well, it wouldn't power when we plugged it in. DH wanted to put it back on the curb, but I looked up the model # and "will not power" on youtube and found a video that gave us the solution in about 30 seconds. One 97 cent capacitor later our new TV is good as new It's a 32" Samsung and the picture is really nice. We are going to replace our current TV with it and put the current TV in the guest room. I love YouTube videos...I swear, I've learned how to fix so many things on there

The moral to this story is that if you see a nice, newer flatscreen on the curb, don't automatically assume that it's broken and can't be easily fixed

 

[rszdtrvl]

Last week I found a flatscreen TV (with the remote) sitting on the curb on trash day. It looked like a nice TV so I figured I'd take it home and try it. Well, it wouldn't power when we plugged it in. DH wanted to put it back on the curb, but I looked up the model # and "will not power" on youtube and found a video that gave us the solution in about 30 seconds. One 97 cent capacitor later our new TV is good as new It's a 32" Samsung and the picture is really nice. We are going to replace our current TV with it and put the current TV in the guest room. I love YouTube videos...I swear, I've learned how to fix so many things on there

The moral to this story is that if you see a nice, newer flatscreen on the curb, don't automatically assume that it's broken and can't be easily fixed

Good job! Free is always the best price - well, $.97!

I paid $3 at a yard sale for our 19" flat screen tv that we have in the bedroom. For $3, I will trust you when you say a $150+ tv works!

 

[xlxo]

Here's some other money saving TV tips...

• a paper clip can be an antenna for free local content. Otherwise an ATSC antenna in a window that faces local broadcast towers can help get more channels.
• if it's not a smart TV, chromecast or roku can help

 

[MOpGrad2013]

 

[Shelly F - Ohio]

YouTube rules. We fixed out A/C unit by finding the solution on youtube. It cost us $35. We fixed the washing machine for $48 Sears wanted $300 to fix it.

Last Christmas my Dad picked up a Dyson vacuum on the curb all that was wrong it was clogged with pine needles. Works like a charm.

 

[tvguy]

Glad that worked out. As you can imagine at a TV station we have a few TV's. We've kind of stopped replacing the the 25 year old Sony tube TV's that still work like a charm, because none of the new flat screens lasts more than a few years. Flat screens frankly, as disposable TV's.

 

[lost*in*cyberspace]

Glad that worked out. As you can imagine at a TV station we have a few TV's. We've kind of stopped replacing the the 25 year old Sony tube TV's that still work like a charm, because none of the new flat screens lasts more than a few years. Flat screens frankly, as disposable TV's.

Who wants to watch a 25 year old CRT TV? No high def? Forget it!

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

Can't beat that one!

 

[mikehn]

I can see why someone would put that out on the curb. 60" is now the norm for flat screen tvs.

 

[havaneselover]

I can see why someone would put that out on the curb. 60" is now the norm for flat screen tvs.

I refuse to go over 42". I don't get the big tv thing.

Awesome find, op.

I remember when flat screens came out in the late 90s. My ex and I would look at them at the sony shop in downtown Chicago. They were $20,000

 

[pryncess527]

I can see why someone would put that out on the curb. 60" is now the norm for flat screen tvs.

Good lord. not every room can support a 60" television. I'd hardly call 60" "the norm" Perhaps the norm for a living room, but so many people have TVs in the bedrooms, kitchen, home office, etc -- I'm sure there are PLENTY sold that are under 40 inches.

 

[supersnoop]

Last week I found a flatscreen TV (with the remote) sitting on the curb on trash day. It looked like a nice TV so I figured I'd take it home and try it. Well, it wouldn't power when we plugged it in. DH wanted to put it back on the curb, but I looked up the model # and "will not power" on youtube and found a video that gave us the solution in about 30 seconds. One 97 cent capacitor later our new TV is good as new It's a 32" Samsung and the picture is really nice. We are going to replace our current TV with it and put the current TV in the guest room. I love YouTube videos...I swear, I've learned how to fix so many things on there

The moral to this story is that if you see a nice, newer flatscreen on the curb, don't automatically assume that it's broken and can't be easily fixed

This is often referred to as the "capacitor plague." Around 2005, some company in China stole the formula for a new capacitor from a Japanese company, but copied it down wrong. They produced billions of faulty capacitors that were used in almost every electronic device made. Dell took a ~$700MM hit fixing or replacing motherboards. TiVo's power supplies got hit hard, too. If you can handle a soldering iron, almost anything failed electronic item can be repaired very cheaply.

 

[LoveBWVVBR]

I can see why someone would put that out on the curb. 60" is now the norm for flat screen tvs.

Lol...I'm pretty sure they put it out on the curb because it wouldn't power. A 60" TV won't fit in our TV cabinet, so I'm plenty happy with my 97 cent 32" flatscreen

 

[puffkin]

Lol...I'm pretty sure they put it out on the curb because it wouldn't power. A 60" TV won't fit in our TV cabinet, so I'm plenty happy with my 97 cent 32" flatscreen

I would have been thrilled We just bought a 32" Samsung for my DS's bedroom for Christmas. While I do like my big TV's (we have a 55" in family room, 65" in basement, and 48" in living room) I think a larger TV would be a bit overkill in my DS 10x10 bedroom

I actually asked around figuring some people would be upgrading TV's and I might be able to score one cheap and most people were keeping their smaller sets to move to a kids bedroom/office/spare room, etc.