[DLSLUG-Discuss] want to buy: 2 used LCD monitors

[Stanley Brinkerhoff]

Supply and demand.  People are still trading out their CRT's for LCD's, very
few people have LCD's they are trading out for new LCD's.  Also -- keep in
mind a 22" LCD is a wide 19" LCD -- there is little benefit for someone to
upgrade from 19" to 22" except an inch or two on the sides.  If t here are
used LCD's -- people pay top dollar for them to save anything over retail.

+ LCD's are still at best 4 years old.
+ LCD's either work, or dont -- and people dont get rid of t hem until they
fail.
+ Businesses and home users arent motivated to upgrade from last years 17"
standard to the marketplace full of 22" lcds as there is very limited
benefit.
+ Many newer LCD's use cheaper technology than older LCD's.  A 23" $150 LCD
is a lower grade product t han yesterdays $300 17" LCD.  (I still have my
$500 Dell 18" LCD I bought 6 years ago -- 4 apartments - 3 jobs -  2 cars -
and 2 girlfriends ago -- and has no dead pixels -- compared to these cheapy
Acer 17" lcds that routinely die).

Go with a free CRT, buy a 20" LCD for $100 from BestBuy, or continue to hope
someone is going to sell you a monitor worth $125 for $25.  Are these
families so picky to not accept a free PC because it doesn't have an LCD?
That seems horribly odd.

Stan

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:18 AM, mike upper valley <
mike.upper.valley at gmail.com> wrote:

> i've not come up with reasonable possibilities.  the problem seems to
> be that prices for new LCDs have dropped dramatically in the past 6
> months and the "used" market has not adjusted. for example, new 22-24
> inch name brand LCDs with multiple year warranties have been starting
> at $150 on sale. i still have 2 compaq presario desktops that i would
> like to donate to families through a local grade school, but i do not
> have monitors  to go with them.  so i'm looking for 2 inexpensive LCD
> monitors to buy. regards, mike
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