This past weekend the HD Guru® surveyed managers of two regional CE chains on Long Island, NY. They spoke about very low sales and very light floor traffic, due to the Wall St. financial meltdown. One manager commented “this has been the slowest week since 9/11”! In an attempt to keep moving inventory and counter consumers’ Fears, Uncertainties and Doubts (FUD) the HDTV makers are once again lowering the retail pricing on HDTVs and have increased the use of “instant rebates”.
Sony, LG and Samsung reduced prices up to $200 on select models, while other set makers are using a subtler approach, quietly offering “instant rebates” to dealers. The manufacturers expect retailers to use the additional discount as a “sale price” reduction.
Here is a list of price reductions this week. Use this article as a guide. Remember, these are manufacturers’ suggested retails and not the far lower, heavily discounted prices you will find at the HD Guru’s Pricegrabber Shopping Banner Ad (on the lower left side of this page), or at your regional or nation consumer electronics retailer.
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Comments
shankar Posted on 22nd September, 2008
Yes, I called Amazon and got $100.00 off my LN46a650 after receiving it.
First they refused then said OK. Shipped price 1599.00 now.
n00b Posted on 22nd September, 2008
Wow what a great deal 50 dollar rebate for a 32 inch? pfft.
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enter Posted on 23rd September, 2008
Actually Circuit City already has a lot of these tv’s for cheaper than the prices that the guru has provided.
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yodah Posted on 25th September, 2008
Well, I am in the market for a Panasonic plasma and haven’t seen any price breaks yet, so I guess I will wait. Hope these guys start matching the lower prices soon!
DavidJ Posted on 11th October, 2008
There’s been a lot of finger pointing between Verizon Fios and Samsung and there sometimes incompatiblity. It seems as though lots of folks are dealing with the same kettle of fish. Sony’s name was mentioned in the dispute. I’ve decided to install a Clearstream antenna and probably purchase an HD to avoid the entire dispute and get the full HD signal as opposed to the compressed dish, cable, version. As far as programs; who needs 200 channels or a $3600 bill for three years of 200 channels, when only a fractionof them even interest me. Verizon blames Windows for other problems. It really is there problem, not mine.
Is there any experience with the WD series of Mitsubishi DLP HD TV’s? I have a 62 inch not quite 3 years old and has numerous problems. A repairman tells me “It is not worth fixing - disposable - sell it for parts!”
Any one else with similar problems?
JJT Posted on 3rd November, 2008
I find it interesting that Olevia is going bankrupt, Sony is having huge financial problems but Vizio had profits last quarter. They must be doing something right….
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