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LCD Tellys will they get cheaper after xmas?
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Rainbow_Butterfly wrote: »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
I'm in exactly the same position, I'm going go do some looking around tomorrow, see if anywhere has a decent deal on a 32" LCD. Since there's no guarantee prices will fall in a few months, I figure if I see a deal I thinks reasonable, I'll go for it now.Sigless0 -
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.
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Completely true.
Things are about to get FAR worse..............:idea:0 -
Rainbow_Butterfly wrote: »
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
If it's any help to you in making a decision, I put my own money where my mouth is.
Like you, perhaps, we were intending to upgrade from CRT (Sony 36" fed by Sky+) to HD sometime in late 2009 or early 2010, when the analogue signal is switched off in our region.
This was not because we're using analogue but because we thought we'd wait and see exactly how Digital Terrestrial settles down once analogue is decommissioned and digital is given more power and elbow room. We also wanted to see how well FreeSat progresses in the next year and whether we could thus scrape Sky off our boots.
But the way things have now gone, and clearly will get even worse in 2009, we revised that strategy and bought a 52" Sony LCD last week.
Companies like Sony and Samsung (or Pioneer and Panasonic, if one prefers plasma to LCD - but the title and topic of this particular thread addresses LCD, not plasma) have traditionally introduced new and better models for about the same price, whereupon there has been a window of opportunity for canny consumers to snap up the previous range at discounted prices.
What's changed fundamentally - and will affect future pricing - is not so much the desperation of retailers to sell during a recession (and in Britain it's going to degenerate into a depression) but the huge fall in the value of the pound.
The large international manufacturers (who appear still to be permitted by Britain and the EU to control pricing and prohibit discounting of their product by their dealers) strive to operate on a Europe-wide basis. Fundamentally this is to protect their dealerships from customers purchasing their items more cheaply in neighbouring countries.
Whatever may be the manufacturing cost of the item, in order to prevent everyone within range of Britain and Northern Ireland now abandoning their local Euro dealers and buying their kit 25% or 30% more cheaply in Bankrupt Britain, they will have to raise prices here for that reason alone.
So, what seems certain to happen is that Sony and the others will raise their prices in 2009. And, instead of the superseded models being discounted for a while (while stocks last) these will hold their existing prices.
When those stocks run out - and the best stuff is disappearing fast because some people (particularly if they've been abroad recently) have worked this out - the buyer who waited will be left with the stark choice of paying 25% or 30% more for a new one or paying the same price as now for models that those who bought before Christmas didn't find appealing.
I wonder just how long it's going to take before it dawns on people in this country that their money isn't worth much any more - either abroad or for buying imported goods. Probably not until they finally come back from their next holiday shell-shocked and penniless. (If they've still got a home to come back to.)
Things are that bad, in (and for) Britain.
So, buy now, while you still can...
Don't laugh at banana republics. :rotfl:
As a result of how you voted in the last three General Elections,
you'd now be better off living in one.
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the huge fall in the value of the pound.
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I wonder just how long it's going to take before it dawns on people in this country that their money isn't worth much any more - either abroad or for buying imported goods. Probably not until they finally come back from their next holiday shell-shocked and penniless. (If they've still got a home to come back to.)
Things are that bad, in (and for) Britain.
So, buy now, while you still can...
Got it in one. I agree 100%.0 -
Thanks for the info, I will be having a look about now then. Where is a good place to look? I tried currys but can only get a 32in there for 450! xx0
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Rainbow_Butterfly wrote: »Thanks for the info, I will be having a look about now then. Where is a good place to look? I tried currys but can only get a 32in there for 450! xx
funnily enough, ive just today recieved an email off RICHER SOUNDS telling me about their 'boxing day' sale.
Theres both a Sony and a Samsung 32" going for 300 quid
Panasonic 350 quid
(If you decide to go, tell them your a VIP member (Join the site for free VIP membership)):idea:0 -
due to the lack of HD content i am waiting until i get a new TV.
Hopefully by then OLED wont just be a rich mans thingThe orginal post in this thread has a very very slim chance of being about money saving. The post is more than likely to ask a question that google could answer better than any of us.0 -
If possible we are looking for 40ish in for 400ish. Will check out richer sounds. xx0
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Sony KDL40V4000 will be 500 quid in the sale
(originally 900!)
http://whathifi.com/Review/Sony-KDL-40V4000/:idea:0 -
There'll be a stampede for those!
Richer's Boxing Day sale is always brilliant. I remember fighting my way through the hordes to nail a £250 set of Sennheiser HD 600 cans for £99 a few years ago. Came back with a Sony CD player as well! All sold out by the end of the day.
Take turkey sandwiches and get there early! :money:
Don't laugh at banana republics. :rotfl:
As a result of how you voted in the last three General Elections,
you'd now be better off living in one.
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