50 inch plasma for $1230

[Michele]

In the Sears Memorial Day circular, they made a mistake in the model number of a 50 inch Panasonic plasma TV. They are offering the TV for 1699 minus 400 in rebates or something like that. Anyway, Sears knows it's a mistake, but Best Buy doesn't and they price matched it for us with their 110% guarantee....so we got an extra 70 bucks off. We bought it on Friday....Russ said the Sears online ad still has the wrong model number and you can just print out the ad and bring it to a Best Buy (or maybe even Circuit City). $1230 is less than Best Buy can purchase the TV for....or so their computers said.

The model number is TH-50PZ80U

It's a 50 inch Panasonic Viero and it's 1080p whatever that means. Best Buy's regular price was 1999 and Sears' regular price is 2299. So it's a deal!

The TV is ridiculously huge (to me). But I thought I should pass along the deal. Hopefully it will still work. Sorry I couldn't post it earlier!

[spotty_dog]

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Our 27 inch CRT (with the rabbit ears) seems so old-skool! Way to stimulate the economy, eh?

[v-girl]

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Our 27 inch CRT (with the rabbit ears) seems so old-skool! Way to stimulate the economy, eh?

Do we have the same TV? Except our rabbit ears were tossed 10 years ago when we bought our house that was already cool with a big antenna in the attic! Yeah, we know we're cool. No, we don't have cable. And we're too cheap to replace our DVD/VCR combo since the VCR part still works so we spent $30 on a DVD player at Wal-Mart. We're just a step above my teen years in the mobile home park.

[Michele]

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The TV we replaced was a regular 25 inch TV......we bought it just after our trailer park days. We also had a cheapieDVD player that Daegan broke so it was upgraded to another cheapie player....we still have the VCR I bought the summer after HS. We do have a Wii but other than that we weren't "livin' large" electronically by any means. I know this is probably opening the flood gates for him.......

I guess that's also why it seems so excessive to me!

Anyway, he said he thinks the deal might be dead....said some Best Buy's were refusing to price match because it was so low.

[v-girl]

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I wanna see the cheapie DVD player and VCR hooked up to the ginormous TV! Ha ha!

[Vanquisher]

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I would jump on this in a year or two from now, but right now we don't have the space or money to dish out. Cool deal though.

[spotty_dog]

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I guess that's also why it seems so excessive to me!

I pulled out a measuring tape to see what 50" looks like, I bet it's monstrous compared to your old set! Video games must be larger than life.

[moonlight]

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Michele........... Ohhhhhhhh maaaaaaaannn. If I was still there I SO would have done it! DH has been drooling for a new TV when we get back home. I don’t know how much longer I can hold him back!!

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right now we don't have the space or money to dish out.

The space thing didn't bother my DH! He got our 50" in a trade-off for some shifts from a much richer resident who was upgrading to an even better TV. That monstrous black box has been sitting in our tiny living room for the past year, and I'm sure that's why I had to get glasses recently!

Thankfully, we're moving to a bigger place next month for fellowship, so we can enjoy the thing properly. (Ironically, we're renting from a doctor's family who wanted to move closer to their kids' school for a few years.)

In retrospect, I would think twice about getting the 50" until we had enough space to sit a good distance from it. But a great deal is hard to pass up.

[Vishenka69]

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I so wish I knew about this two weeks ago before we got our new TV. Now I feel that we seriously overpaid on ours. Congrats on the great deal.