No Price Drop for TVs this holiday or is this FUD?

[raginranger]

A saleperson at CC told my Dad he assured him there would be no price drop this holiday season for TV's because they lost too much money on dropping the price last year. He even went on to say prices might rise!! Anyone with common sense knows that the cost and price of technology gradually drops so this seemed like complete BS to me. Does anyone think this guy was right or is he just full of sh*t?

[Bizi Jones]

lol, I wouldn't go by anything a CC salesperson says...and then apply it industry wide...

[GTsmokeya]

I work at CC and I can tell you prices fall. But most people in our industry do not expect the fallout like last year had, so prices wont drop as much in percentage from last year but it will go down.

GTsmokeya

[WhoDat]

Originally Posted by raginranger

A saleperson at CC told my Dad he assured him there would be no price drop this holiday season for TV's because they lost too much money on dropping the price last year. He even went on to say prices might rise!! Anyone with common sense knows that the cost and price of technology gradually drops so this seemed like complete BS to me. Does anyone think this guy was right or is he just full of sh*t?

He's full of Sh*t.... Keep your eye on this web site for the hot deals for this holiday season.

http://bfads.net

[LynxFX]

Black Friday (Day after Thanksgiving) is the day you'll want to check out for the best deals on cheap HDTV's. I say cheap because it is usually on the nonbrand name displays. But they are great starter tv's. Last year at our office we picked up two 37" for $500 each.

As for brandname stuff we should still see the same modest sales and bundles as any other holiday season.

[evo_dadi]

Originally Posted by WhoDat

He's full of Sh*t.... Keep your eye on this web site for the hot deals for this holiday season.

http://bfads.net

+100000000000000000000000 this is one of the best time to go shopping.just remember to go to bed early and wake up about 2am to get inline

[WhoDat]

Originally Posted by LynxFX

Black Friday (Day after Thanksgiving) is the day you'll want to check out for the best deals on cheap HDTV's. I say cheap because it is usually on the nonbrand name displays. But they are great starter tv's. Last year at our office we picked up two 37" for $500 each.

As for brandname stuff we should still see the same modest sales and bundles as any other holiday season.

Black friday.net has leaked info for Sears.....

Televisions
Hitachi 42" 720p Plasma $599.99
Olevia 52" LCD $1299.99
Sharp 42" LCD $799.99
Sharp 46" LCD $899.99

Now, even though I want a 1080p TV...this is hard to pass up for $599 for the other room in the house.

[WickyWoo]

The problem is that LCD panel supply is less than demand

They have to get the TV prices down because they need 27" equiv(32inch) models under $500 for the next group of consumers to bite

Lots of stores have dropped CRT, and that's just going to continue because people are willing to pay more for the flat

[tron3]

Originally Posted by WhoDat

He's full of Sh*t.... Keep your eye on this web site for the hot deals for this holiday season.

http://bfads.net

I beg to differ for one very minute reason. We all know most of this eletronics stuff is housed in varaious plastics. Plastic resin is made from petroleum - the same stuff where we get gasoline and other such fuels.

Well, we know how the price has been rising. This in turn can increase the price of electronics, even if slightly. A few nickles and dimes per part in a tv with hundreds of pieces, and suddenly the price is dollars more! The alternative is to make housings flimsier and with cheaper materials. So, either we pay the cost or suffer the cost of not paying it.

We can hope that other substrate materials and manufacture process helped lower the total cost on the whole. The price of oil affects the economy more than you think guys. It's not just the cost of shipping which rises. Glass tubes are still cheap because sand is so abundant and virtually free. But we still need fuel to melt and process it.

I can see prices falling, maybe not as sharply as we hope.

[Thundercrash07]

Over here they're already falling again.

[dialog_gvf]

Originally Posted by raginranger

A saleperson at CC told my Dad he assured him there would be no price drop this holiday season for TV's because they lost too much money on dropping the price last year. He even went on to say prices might rise!! Anyone with common sense knows that the cost and price of technology gradually drops so this seemed like complete BS to me. Does anyone think this guy was right or is he just full of sh*t?

Gee, maybe he wants your Dad to buy now and not wait?

[gvortex7]

There is no such thing as "no price drops" or "no sales" in the United States. This is a consumer market driven by prices, and there is no greater reason or time to drop prices on consumer electronics then the Holiday Season. This is the time of the year when most manufacturers make the bulk of their revenue/profit.

[GTsmokeya]

This is a dangerous thread I know about blackfriday.net and other such website's the only problem is now I want to spend my money and buy another tv for which i have no space.

GTsmokeya

[quetzalcoatl]

Well all you have to do is wait 11 days if you are going to get the TV from Best Buy. Since with the 60 day price match it will take you until the day after Christmas. Then you donot have to worry about the line in the morning to get it.

[GasCat]

To the OP: Uhh that would be FUD.

[Maxell]

Television is one of the few areas in retail in which they make profits and rarely sell close to actual price. Unlike many laptops which make little to no money or sometimes costs the company money when they are sold for about $400.

But some brands might be found cheap. There's a westinghouse 42" 1080p LCD going for about $1200 at my best buy.

[WickyWoo]

Yes, and there's a reason why they're so much cheaper than the name brands

Because they're crap

BB employees call them "boomerangs" because so many of them come back