Has anyone ever had a standard 4:3 TV repaired before? I've got one that is less than 4 years old, is relatively nice (around 36" or so) and one day it just stopped powering on. Picture never showed signs of going bad, all the plugs and connections seemed to work, but I hit the power button (on TV and remote) and I get nothing. I spoke to one place near me who repairs TVs and the guy said it was like a $25 fee to look at it, which is deducted from the repair if I decide to have him fix it. Has anyone ever had a TV like this fixed? Is it reasonable to think it might not cost much more than say $50? Much more than that and it isn't really worth it to have it fixed to me. But I'm not really in a situation where I can easily afford to go buy another. Any help anyone could provide would be appreciated. Thanks.
25 bucks is not bad to open it up. I imagine anything costs more then 50 bucks nowadays. If it is over 200 bucks go invest in a new one.
between parts and labor, its going to cost more than $50. Its probably going to be more in the $200 range.
When I had one fixed a year ago, I had a hard time finding places that will look at them - all the places were HD only. If you are pretty sure you are going to go ahead and get it repaired, $25 doesn't sound like a bad amount to diagnose.
I agreed with this. I might call the guy first and ask him the same question you posed to us re: average costs for repair first, though.
My 57" blew out the other day, 5 years old. Called up the repair guy and says would cost me $450 to fix it. I told him just get it out of house. He took it away free of charge. Still not sure made a good decision or not.
Definitely not a good decision. You had one bad part but dozens of good parts. Guess what he's going to do with those good parts? There is a really big market for television parts. There is a guy on ebay that buys really cheap brand new HDTV's and parts them out. There are common parts on the cheap brands and the expensive brands.
