She died. Just last month…
Our trusted 15-year old Samsung television, who wept with the whole family as we watched Schindler’s List, gasped with the children when they thought Experiment 626 aka Stitch will die in the second movie, cheered for R2D2 in all six movies of the Star Wars saga, finally couldn’t be resuscitated.
For two weeks, we had been prowling across Abenson, SM Appliance and other stores to look for a replacement. The Duplitos had been resistant to temptation so far. The object we are trying to resist – a P199,900 Samsung plasma television set with Ultra FilterBright, deeper black and dark images and clearer vision 18 bit color processing.
Charged to my credit card, that’s only P11,000 something a month at “0%” interest (yeah, yeah) and P370 per day (blech!).
See how happy they are? More space means more harmony in the family… (am I really this gullible?)
Must resist…must resist…
What do you think guys? Are the marketing guys going to bag another victim? Help!
July 31st, 2007 at 6:24 pm
Hi Salve,why not buy a slim fit flat screen tv instead. It would save you much much money for the kids. haha
July 31st, 2007 at 5:27 pm
Oops sorry here’s the link I was referring to : http://tech.yahoo.com/blog/raskin/6813
July 31st, 2007 at 5:26 pm
Hello Salve, this is my first time to comment but here are my arguments against buying the LCD /plasma tv. 1st is the electricity cost. (check out this link) Apparently,newer TV’s consume more electricity than the traditional cathode ray tube TV’s. Not to mention the fact that initially you can expect your electricity consumption to go up initially as a result of the excitement of owning THE TV would give you “a whole new audiovisual experience” (ie if you would normally watch 2 to 3 hours a day having a new TV might increase that by an average of an hour each day). For some families it doesn’t stop there. It leads to an increase use of other applicances like the karaoke system or DVD player. It might lead to the temptation of wanting to buy an audio system to complete the “viewing” experience”. I hope tha you will be able to include the above in totalling the monthly expenditure in the cost of owning the new TV.
July 31st, 2007 at 4:54 pm
une clarification, s’il vous plait: good EQUITY mutual funds have historically doubled every four years.
July 31st, 2007 at 4:51 pm
Salve ma cherie, moneysmarts isn’t here to dissuade you or anyone from buying a plasma TV if you have the means
unless you present here your budget and SAL for our perusal. It’s a want but definitely not a need. Don’t buy if your net worth is less than P 200k.
Okay lemme try: good mutual funds have historically doubled every four years, projecting into the future (relying on the moneysmarts disclaimer
) P 200k will be P 800k after 8 years. By then plasma TV technology will be definitely much cheaper!
Or you wanna do that $5.99 switch?
hehehe. Correction, it happened at Costco Wholesale Store.