Monday, December 6, 2010
Gay Dec-5-10
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The forenoon was pretty much like every other Sunday. We picked up Grandma along with Ed and Loraine and headed for early church. We got home around 11:30 am and Cheri fixed us a salad for lunch. We can’t get the Green Bay Packers game today, what a bummer that is. The day before yesterday our bedroom TV died. So we still had some Christmas shopping to do and decided to buy ourselves a new TV for the bedroom this afternoon. We headed out for Lakeland and stopped at Wal-Mart to see what they had. We didn’t like any of the TV’s that they had. The old one was a 19 inch and so that is what we were looking for or maybe a 22 inch. While were there Cheri pick up a Christmas present for Cece. Then we stopped at Best Buy to see what they had and found a 19 inch LED for $179, so to do some comparison shopping we went over to hhgregg to see what they had. They had one we almost bought but wanted to have the extended warranty and they wanted $80 for two years which was too much, also they don’t have any stores west of the Mississippi River. Because we travel and if we had a problem with it and we were out west we wouldn’t be able to get it fixed. Then we went to Sears and found nothing we liked there so it was back to Best Buy. We were looking at the 19 inch LED set when a salesman asks us if we had any questions. So we talked a while about the new LED verses the LCD. Being the LED is the latest technology we decided that’s what we wanted. Then I made the mistake and asked him if they had any 22 inch LED sets on sale, of course they did. We decided if we got a new TV mount that would swing we would have room for the 22 inch LED TV. So now I am excited, and told the salesman that we wanted the 22 inch. He checked and they didn’t have any more in stock. I asked him to check the other Best Buy store and they didn’t have any left. He also checked to see when they would be getting more in and it didn’t show any being shipped. Now I am really bummed out. The salesman said let me see what I can do. He came back and asked us if we would take the display model. He said it would come with the full warranty and the extended warranty was only $29 for four years verses $79 for two years over at hhgregg. I asked him if the mount was on sale and he said he would check and came back with a $25 discount on it. So the TV was marked down from $280 to $220 and then the salesman took off another $15 because it was the display model plus the $25 discount on the mount. Then we added the four year warranty that will replace the TV if anything happens to it. We felt the $29 for this was a good idea because we travel and it will get some shaking from traveling. Then I wanted to know if I could bring everything back if it didn’t fit and exchange it for the 19 inch. He said that wouldn’t be any problem. Yep I have heard that before and I asked him how I can be sure, he said because I am the store general manager. So with that we felt better and headed out the door with the new TV hoping that if would fit. I made a quick stop at Harbor Freight to pick up a quarter inch torque wrench. When we got home I went right to work on checking out to see if the mount and TV would fit and it turned out to be better fit than the old one was. I got it mounted and hooked up. All that is left to do is rerun the cables and dress things up, that’s my job for tomorrow. What a great day it was plus the Packers won.
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