3 samsung tvs

Would it be worth it to buy 3 samsung tv. 1 50in 1 37in and 1 32in. he wants 75 for them. he says the 50in can be fixed and its a 50 dollar board. im thinking about buying the 50in for 20-30. what do you guys think?

They dont work.think ima go for the 50 alone

Originally Posted by mudlight2

Would it be worth it to buy 3 samsung tv. 1 50in 1 37in and 1 32in. he wants 75 for them. he says the 50in can be fixed and its a 50 dollar board. im thinking about buying the 50in for 20-30. what do you guys think?

A huge red flag is when someone tells you a 500.00 TV can be fixed with a 50.00 board and they are selling it dirt cheap. If they know enough to be able to tell you what board you need, how much it costs, and yet are too "busy" to repair it are usually suspect. It just doesn't make sense.

I fix LCD/Plasma TVs from time to time when I come across them (and will purchase one here or there) but I would NEVER buy a TV from someone that is telling me it's only a xxx.xx fix and I'm getting a deal. I would much rather buy a TV from someone that has no idea what is wrong with the TV.

Your buying a can of worms.

I wish I would come across some flat screens sitting on a curb

Originally Posted by TheRecycler

Dude, don't buy any tvs. Too many folks are chucking them. Get one of those and sell instead. I'm sitting on 24 tvs right now, all for free.

Unless you are really proficient at fixing TVs I totally agree with Recycler. No one wants to buy a TV with a cracked screen, it cost more to fix than a new one. It's pretty easy to say it has a bad power supply and won't turn on (an easy fix) and sell it, then to disclose it has a cracked screen. You won't find out until you buy the replacement parts you have a total lemon.

Additionally, usually if the power supply is damaged, it is often caused by or results in damage to a secondary board like a buffer. You very well may have to replace 2 or 3 boards.

I'd also have a hard time buying from someone with SEVERAL TVs. Usually if one breaks, they replace it. When people have several large screen TVs it right away seems that they were trying to fix the TVs, which again is a whole new can of worms.

Originally Posted by jghilino

last week i found a 32" lcd working tv, this week i found a purple dyson upright vacuum with nothing wrong with it

Jghilino's posts also have an underlying message of caution. The cost of TVs is constantly falling. I saw 32" TVs for 150.00 on black friday. People throw away working LCD TVs. While they do have some resale value, it's often not what people think. I can buy a brand new 50" TV any day of the week for 500.00. Usually I see TVs selling for 1/2 that on CL about 250.00 which I think is fair. You can easily get into the 150.00+ range for boards. This is the reason you find fewer and fewer TV repair shops. It's becoming a disposable appliance that is cheaper to replace rather than fix.

Originally Posted by jghilino

What we have here is someone that buys tvs and attempts to repair them. Hes selling them to you because theyre not worth repairing. I am starting to see the whole picture now. There is no other reason why someone would show you 3 non working flat panel tvs and want those prices. AVOID any business with this person.

Yep, you got it.

Thanks for the replies guys! I was thinking that swell. Why would he have so many and not fix the easy one. I only communicated via text. But the more I asked the shorter his responses were. I think I'll pass.

Find and try to fix free ones for practice. As always buy what you know and know what you buy.

Originally Posted by Jonniebrass

Find and try to fix free ones for practice. As always buy what you know and know what you buy.

I think that is the most important thing when you lay out cash for anything. What has happened in the last few years is it has become common knowledge that many TVs had bad capacitors ( samsung was really bad). They have FIXED this problem. Many people purchased TVs trying to fix them only to realize that there were no bad caps and they had no idea how to trouble shoot a TV and purchased a paperweight. Now they want to unload them because they really don't know how to fix them.

Most of the problems I've seen lately are with the MosFets on the power supplies being stuck open or closed NOT caps (samsung), but as I posted before, a bad power supply often is caused or causes failure in other boards.

If you want to start to repair TVs, my suggestion would be this..

Find TVs that are holding their value with a cracked screen. You will be able to turn it on and verify it is working. Then look for the same TV (or one that uses the same boards) that has a good screen but won't power on. It is pretty easy to swap boards, you have a working TV, some good extra boards, some scrap, sell the TV, repeat. In addition to having a cheap working TV, you will have extra boards that you KNOW are good and you can flip them on Ebay.