Christmas In August? Best Buy’s Big HDTV Price Drop

Will HD Guru include on its reports whether the plasma TV set has any cooling fans, and if so how many and where they are located.

For example the TC-P50V10 has 6 cooling fans (4 on top and 2 on the bottom back) while the TC-P54S1 has none.

Similarly, comment on the noise produced by such fans when they’re tunning at max speed (unit is hot in a hot room).

I believe if HD Guru starts including the information about the cooling fans it would be the ONLY site on the web to have such information.

I work at an independant tv store and have been doing so for over 5 years. We have had these prices for the past two weeks. The original price is marked up. You could get these prices any day of the week just by asking. Acctually in most of these tvs there is still over 10% profit for most retailers. Exspect lower prices as the holidays aproach.

I must say BB has dropped their prices dramatically over the past few weeks but it’s not enough. When I was looking in purchasing the Samsung LED LCD UN46B7000/7100 at the beginning of the month, I was researching them every where from e-stores, local retailers and directly from the manufactures and all where between $2600 – $2100. So I decided to downgrade to a 40 inch instead as the 46” was too high for my budget. BB had the UN40B6000 for $1800 vs Fry’s UN40B7000 at $1600 so it was an obvious choice. 3 weeks later (this week) Fry’s dropped their price down on the UN7000 to $1400 for the 40” and $1600 for the 46” and includes the Samsung BD-P1600 Blue Ray Player (worth $225) for free so I decided to return my 40” and get the 46” for the same price I paid for the 40” and received a free blue-ray player. BB has the same TV for $1799 but with no Blue-ray so how is that a good deal when Fry’s is dropping their prices below BB and includes a Samsung BD P1600 Blue Ray Player?

There are no deals here… Recession times … U want LCD screen deals check out dealmac.com new egg, tiger direct costco, Hd Guru should give real deals and not sponsored fake ones. Buying a screen over $1000 does not seem like a deal these days when you can find blue ray players @less than $200

Tracking weekly ads is exactly what we do. Due to a combination of factory to dealer incentives and recent price drops, a number of HDTVs on sale now ARE at the lowest price of the year.

If you read the copy, you would have learned how readers can use these new low prices as a base line to negotiate with their local retailers, since many B&M stores wouldn’t price match etailers.

And yet, these prices still don’t compete with e-tailers, and are most certainly not the lowest prices of the year. Go pull up the deal BB had earlier in the summer, bundling Blu-ray players with 46″ TVs for less than the prices above. $1500 for a 46″ is NOT, NOT NOW, NOT EVER, a deal.

In order to use these “new low prices” to negotiate for a deal you’d have to actually post some new low prices. Did Best Buy pay for this article? You should be ashamed to defend this crap.

Congratulations for falling for the hype! As you may have noticed from the comments, these are the every week prices. Pull out your ads from the last 6 months and take a look – a 40″ HDTV for $1000 isn’t a deal, its a rip off. Newegg or Dell will offer the same television in a 24 hour sale for $700-800.

Tracking weekly ads is exactly what we do. Due to a combination of factory to dealer incentives and recent price drops, a number of HDTVs on sale now ARE at the  lowest price of the year. 

If you read the copy, you would have learned how readers can use these new low prices as a base line to negotiate with their local retailers, since many B&M stores wouldn’t price match  etailers.

Want to learn how to negotiate the best deal? Read our “How To Negotiate the Best Deal” article. Here’s the (Link)

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for those who complain it’s too expensive, check out the site bestbuy.ca prices charged for similar products. Canadians pay 50% more expensive even with the exchange rate!

A big sale tain’t do much good if BB can’t deliver the TV for almost 30 days. The first delivery date for most of the USA for a 50V10 Panasonic is like Sept 25. And forget the 54V10 at all in many areas.

still too expensive. what’s the point of a big TV. it just makes you want cable, and want to sit around like a vegetable getting fat.

1andOnly – Not sure what their return policy is for stuff like this, but that seems like a pretty good bit of leverage if they don’t make good on the new lower price.

I bought a Panny 50V10 at my BB yesterday for 1999 – they pricematched the Amazon price. It’s set for delivery on Sept 19.

If tomorrow’s price is substantially lower, what recourse do I have? I put it on my BB card, so I don’t have a credit card company in my corner….

Best Buy must have out of their minds and so as you giving the Marked up prices and then bringing them down to the exorbitant original prices!