getting ready to scrap expensive TV

A little bit of gold with a lot of plastic waste, I hate flat screen TV's.

You going to repair or scrap it.

Originally Posted by miked

This is what i did with the flat tv's for a while. Plug it in, hook it up to a source ie cable, turn on the sound and see if it works. If it works then take a photo of the broken screen while it has a picture.
Look up the tv on ebay and check the sold price of the various boards. This will tell you if its worth your time to sell the boards.

I have picked up 3 so far, all at the curb. Hoping to save them and do one day of troubleshooting/breaking down/fixing. I appreciate the insight Miked about the selling of the motherboards potentially, as it feels nice to get a second use out of something if it can be saved and keep someone else device keep running. It is nice here in New Brunswick there is provincial drop offs just like California @Cyberdan so anytime I've broke down other electronics with plastic housing I carefully take apart the shell and place all the un wanted stuff back in and replace the screws... I appreciate the government taking care of some of the waste that would just be trashed, and if I get a bit a coppa outta it then it is all gravy.

Miked pretty much nailed it. If you wanted to make a little bit of coin with a flat screen ... reselling the boards would be the way to go. The one that Dan found would be a really good candidate because it's brand new. A certain number of flatscreens get damaged in transit from the factory to the store. The customer never knows till they take it home and open the box.

The store will usually tell you to drop it off at the electronics recycling building and they give you another one.

I've repaired a couple of used ones. There are usually three circuit boards when you remove the back. The most common one to fail in this area is the power board. We get a lot of power surges just before the power goes out in a storm. The other prime cause is home backup generators. The less expensive ones are really bad for electronics because their power output varies so much.

The other thing to go is the backlight. That's a harder repair but sometimes it can be done if you're careful in your work.

As far as straight up scrap value goes ? They aren't worth bothering with. Lots of effort for very little gain.

I've got a really nice one that needs a back light repair. It's been sitting in the closet for almost four years now. I keep meaning to get a round tuit but can never seem to find the time and energy to make it happen. Too many other things to do.

Originally Posted by hills

I've got a really nice one that needs a back light repair. It's been sitting in the closet for almost four years now. I keep meaning to get a round tuit but can never seem to find the time and energy to make it happen. Too many other things to do.

Story of my life lol. I've got 25 TV's in on the shelf that are just waiting to be worked on with more coming in daily. I enjoy working on TV's, but they take up so much space for repairs. I want to fix as many as I can, but there are just not enough hours in the day. When you get around to working on that TV I would recommend you buy a set of those orange TV repair suction cups. They work super well for removing the glass panel (especially on units 50"+).

Originally Posted by CopperMiner

If you're into DOA / Damaged / Salvage goods, Wal-Mart has B2B auctions where you can bid by the pallet or truckload. I am sure Costco, Best Buy, Target and the other guys has some similar way to work.

Amazon would be the exception. They claim to resell returned items and they have a section for that on their site, but TV reporters tracked perfectly good condition items returned by customers all the way to destruction by a third party hired by Amazon.

https://liquidations.walmart.com/

Edit: Amazon part.

Thank you for the link! I'm currently looking into trying a salvage lot or two of salvage TV's and other items and those prices look pretty reasonable.