![]() For that price, you may not get another one if they cash you out. Walmart will actually attempt to repair your TV. On the other hand, their service was very easy to work with. On one hand, it sucks because I'd rather have had another TV, but since it was a bad tuner, it still works with a cable box. When one died, they gave me back my money, but had me keep the TV. I have a pair of 20" Sansui TVs I got from Target for $61 each a few years ago and I took the warranty on them. In fact, Walmart is advantageous in that their warranty is as comprehensive/more comprehensive than BB or Target and it's cheaper. $28 for the $200-$300 3yr warranty is an absolute no-brainer and you have 90 days to choose it. If you're doing the 50" TV at Walmart, there's a chance you get an Element from them if you take the 1hr guarantee. For Westinghouse, I probably would skip the warranty. They had Best Buy give me a new (and better) one. I know they stand behind their products because their repairmen have come to my house to fix my stove, refrigerator and dishwasher on several occasions. If an Element TV is $200 and a warranty is $80 and you can get an LG or Samsung for $300, buy the LG or Samsung. And according to the complaints you'll see all over the internet, these things have a frustrating failure rate. Well, I assure you that when you buy an Element TV, you need one because if it goes south, you're screwed. There are people who will tell you to never buy an extended warranty, that they're a scam, you'll never need it, etc. ![]() Well, the same goes with extended warranties. You have to choose new or used on a case-by-case basis. One of the dumbest sayings that goes around /r/frugal is the thoughtless parroting of "never buy a new car, always buy used", except that some new cars barely depreciate and it's better to buy new. No! Of course not, silly! We have to ship it back to California from New York at our expense! Which, at a TV of that size is about $200. We ask them how they want to do this? Send us a new or refurb TV and we ship ours back in the same box? Take it to an authorised repair centre? Return it to the point of purchase, which is Target? You have to go through some sort of convoluted email system to talk to anyone. We contacted Element in California and after about a month of back and forth, they finally agreed there was a defect! Oh, joy! Any other company would have copped to it in the initial call. Via HDMI and the other ports, things look fine like Roku and Google TV and game systems. One day we decided to hook it up to the coax signal and everything is tinted red. I got this TV (46 or 47 inches, I can't remember) for something like $171 or whatever about a year and a half ago.Īt my house we have Time Warner cable, but I don't pay for anything but the basic 2-13 channels and it's because it's cheaper to take that than the internet alone. ![]() Target discounts in stages: 30%, then 50%, then 70% and then 90%. Generally you don't see TVs go down much there.
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