LCD Tellys will they get cheaper after xmas?

mandragora_2

http://www.bargaincrazy.com/epages/BargainCrazy.sf/?ObjectPath=/Shops/BargainCrazy/Products/F0102439/SubProducts/F010243901S

Today's deal of the day could be worth a look, if you want a monster-sized telly!! Quite a big reduction, review look ok, and cheaper than anywhere else I can see selling the same model. Mind you, don't take my word for it, I know nowt about tellies!

Darth_Marty

Marty_J wrote: »

If it cost a store £500 to buy a model of TV nine months ago, and now it costs the store £650 for the same model, what do you imagine will happen to the price to the consumer?

You say that and its valid of course but we all know from experience that tech comes down in price, usually fairly dramatically.

I fail to see why, when money is tighter than it has been in years, this would be any different.

Time will tell.

MX5huggy

The fall in the pound is more than offset by the falls in commodity prices, metals halved, oil down two thirds, and price of shipping stuff. Pay rates in China will be falling etc etc.

randomtask_2

I have been told by a Sony employee that prices on most big electricals will increase in the new year by 30%. The £ is now very weak which increases the cost of imports and I suspect manufacturing volumes will scale back as Japan's economy is slowing faster than most. So it will cost the UK more to import products that will be lesser in number...

My take on it is once current stockpiles run out, the prices will start to rise as 'fresh' stock will be more expensive to bring to market.

h4zel

Sorry to go off at a tangent but does anyone know why there are no silver tv's anymore?? I have a lovely silver Sanyo 27" but I'd like a 37" ...but they're all black now days?!!

londonman81

Sorry to go off at a tangent but does anyone know why there are no silver tv's anymore?? I have a lovely silver Sanyo 27" but I'd like a 37" ...but they're all black now days?!!

Apparently silver has gone out of fashion as quickly as it came into fashion.
As an example, I recently saw advertised a silver hi-fi system which was being sold at a massive discount versus the same system in black. I called the shop and asked why, and they said purely because the silver colour does not sell well and so has been discontinued, hence the massive end of line clearance price...unfortunately I couldn't get my hands on one as they'd all gone!

I can only guess that the same is true of the silver TV's. Black is indeed classic it seems....

h4zel

thanks londonman..... black may well be classic but in my lounge it would be intrusive! ...guess I'll be sticking with my 27" for a bit longer then! lol

Cat695

randomtask wrote: »

I have been told by a Sony employee that prices on most big electricals will increase in the new year by 30%. The £ is now very weak which increases the cost of imports and I suspect manufacturing volumes will scale back as Japan's economy is slowing faster than most. So it will cost the UK more to import products that will be lesser in number...

My take on it is once current stockpiles run out, the prices will start to rise as 'fresh' stock will be more expensive to bring to market.

It will be a stalemate then as people just won't buy, companies won't be able to afford to drop their prices so I guess the recession will be a long one....a sony tv is not exactly a life giving need so people will just keep their old ones.

Leopard

Cat695 wrote: »

It will be a stalemate then as people just won't buy, companies won't be able to afford to drop their prices so I guess the recession will be a long one....a sony tv is not exactly a life giving need so people will just keep their old ones.

People in Britain just won't buy. Because they won't be able to afford imported goods.

People in Europe will buy. Because their currency hasn't devalued by 30%.

Europeans will still be able to afford LCD televisions because their money has held its value and they haven't got themselves hopelessly into personal debt. They've been horrified for years by the level of personal debt in Britain. Britons have been living beyond their means for a decade, putting things they could never afford on to credit cards and relying on their houses to increase in value.

The level of personal debt in Britain now exceeds that of the whole of the rest of Western Europe put together.

Everyone but the British themselves could see that this bubble was going to burst.

Be under no illusions as to how long this recession is going to last in Britain, how much worse things are going to get, how far the £ is going to continue to fall and how much personal catastrophe is going to befall how many people in Britain in the next year or two. Most of whom still don't realise it.

Rainbow_Butterfly

This is something im very interested in too as we are in the same situation. Want to replace our very sad little 28in crt telly with a nice 40ish in LCD one. Have about £400 to spend. I also dont know if its worth waiting for January or not. Eek.

Will be following this thread with interest. xx