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Originally Posted by GA Russell
Well, if someone can suggest another 40% off discounted to $180, I'd be happy to consider it.
My TV is a Panasonic CRT from 1982! That's how much I watch television.
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That's about the same as mine, GA. I have a 13" CRT--don't remember what brand. I have a 21" or so flat screen boxed up. My remote control with the 13" consisted of telling someone to get up off of the couch and change the channel. I've used the cable only for Internet.
This from the guy who sold the first plasma TV in this 25,000 population town, quite a few years ago now (how do I know? There were no other stores in town which sold them at the time!).
I've tried to give away the 13" TV to some charities around here--none of them will accept them, because no one will buy them in their thrift stores, and none of the "poor" people in town that they serve will accept them, even for free! I had resigned myself to leaving it at the curb (someone will almost always take something left at the curb).
A lady on FreeCycle wrote that she has three daughters, and that she needed three TV's _desperately_ (her words). I wrote her back nearly immediately, telling her that I'd give her the 13" inch TV, and I'd throw in the necessary digital converter and a nice set-top antenna for it, for free. _And_, I'd deliver it to her (she lives in a small city about 45 minutes away). I never heard from--she must not have been desperate enough to take that dinosaur.
Thankfully, through FreeCycle also, a lady said that she would accept it--I just need to take it to her house in that same small city about 45 miles away (with FreeCycle, the recipient is supposed to take care of picking things up from the donor!). I hate destroying perfectly good things, so I told her that I'd take it to her.
Every morning, when I get up out of bed, the first thing that I do is see if someone has written "SUCKER," in magic marker, across my face during the night.
As you can imagine, I have zero, zilch, nada interests in Echo's, Alexa's, advanced Kindle's (mine probably is the _original_ model--it does what I want it to do, just fine, so why change it, I reason).
I feel like I just gave an Andy Rooney monologue . . . .