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| Thread ID: 75148 | 2006-12-18 03:11:00 | How much is this TV worth? | george12 (7) | PC World Chat |
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| 507602 | 2006-12-18 03:11:00 | Hi, I have somebody who owes a lot of people (including me) a lot of money, and has a "TV" he would consider selling to settle his debts. He says he paid $15,000 for it a few years ago - it's a converted arcade machine, but it's a wide screen LCD about 1.5 metres in diameter, maybe even 2.0. The resolution is nothing special, I don't know what it is, but it's about TV quality. Any idea how much it would go for on Trade Me? |
george12 (7) | ||
| 507603 | 2006-12-18 03:29:00 | He's pulling your leg mate.......$15k for a TV?...LOL | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 507604 | 2006-12-18 03:31:00 | Does it work as a TV with full tuner options etc? And I assume you mean either screen width or diagonal, broadly speaking, diameter applies only to circles, tubes and spheres. If you are thinking of resale, unless it looks really good it may not fetch much more that $500. Of course on a good day with a following wind and a bidding frenzy it could go to a couple of grand even. As for the $15,000, I'd lay odds he's exaggerating, and he probably didn't pay for it either. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 507605 | 2006-12-18 03:33:00 | He's pulling your leg mate.......$15k for a TV?...LOL Did you never see the prices for a big plasma screen when they were new to the market? $15,000 would have been a snip. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 507606 | 2006-12-18 03:43:00 | I really wanted to see $5k for it... I don't think it has a built in tuner but a 75+" LCD must surely be worth something ... | george12 (7) | ||
| 507607 | 2006-12-18 04:34:00 | I really wanted to see $5k for it... I don't think it has a built in tuner but a 75+" LCD must surely be worth something ... So what is the input system? Do you need to connect AV from another source? Is it wide screen format? If not, that reduces its value, and is it cosmetically acceptable, e.g. supposing somebody had the gear to drive it, would they want it in their home? For that kind of money you'd want it to look good. I don't think it is worth $5K, in fact it sounds like it was a commercial display unit. I doubt it was ever an arcade game display either, you couldn't get far enough back from it to see all the screen unless it was in one of those sit-in drive simulators. Depending on how much money you want to recover, I wouldn't value it above $2000 but probably less. If you don't get your hopes up you can be pleasantly surprised if you get more than that. Go to Harvey Norman, Noel Leemings or whatever your local big screen seller is and look at their offerings at 42" and above. That will help you get your feet on the ground. At 75" it probably isn't LCD either, more likely plasma. Really big LCDs are relative newcomers on the scene. Google for ideas. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 507608 | 2006-12-18 06:45:00 | He's pulling your leg mate.......$15k for a TV?...LOLwhen I first saw plasma's the entry level was about 15 | plod (107) | ||
| 507609 | 2006-12-18 06:50:00 | I doubt it was ever an arcade game display either, you couldn't get far enough back from it to see all the screen unless it was in one of those sit-in drive simulators. I remember seeing screens of this kind of size for games like Street Fighter II in the UK, sit down consoles about 6-8 feet back from the screen! Picture quality would be pretty crappy compared to screens nowadays, and as Billy T and a few others say, how is it gonna be used? How are you gonna resell it? I mean in your shoes I'd rather have the $5k you refer to... has he got a car? you'd probably get more for that... :p As for prices on Trademe, not trying to be funny, but have you looked? Or you could ask Arcade distributors... |
Sick Puppy (6959) | ||
| 507610 | 2006-12-18 07:00:00 | Hi, I have somebody who owes a lot of people (including me) a lot of money, and has a "TV" he would consider selling to settle his debts. He says he paid $15,000 for it a few years ago - it's a converted arcade machine, but it's a wide screen LCD about 1.5 metres in diameter, maybe even 2.0. The resolution is nothing special, I don't know what it is, but it's about TV quality. Any idea how much it would go for on Trade Me? Great!! Tell him to sell it and then he can pay you and everyone back. Right? Right........:groan: |
pctek (84) | ||
| 507611 | 2006-12-18 07:33:00 | Great!! Tell him to sell it and then he can pay you and everyone back. Right? Right........:groan: Well that's what he seems to want to do, but he seems reluctant to consider letting it go for under 5k. And no, before you ask, I have an EXTREMELY small amount of hope for seeing any money. He's a chronic (spelling?) liar too. But I'll play along, the worst that can happen is I don't get anything, which is what I've expected for the last few months. |
george12 (7) | ||
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