Re: OT: cheap LCD
James <[email protected]>
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On 09/17/09 23:17, Andy Civil wrote: > James wrote: >> What store has the best prices on monitors? > > Price doesn't matter as much as the ability to return the monitor if > there's a dead or stuck pixel. Since the manufacturers don't define a > small number of dead pixels as failure, you need a store that will > override this policy with a 'no questions asked' one. I think that > means Costco, Future Shop or Best Buy. I bought my 24" at FutureShop just because of that possibility. > > > > Future Shop are known for having genuine sales on selected product - > wait for what you want to come up. For example, a LG 22" monitor $60 > off, at $199.99 this week in FS. I ended up buying an LG 22 at Canada Computers for $160. I was willing to risk a dead pixel (it has none though). > > P.S. those "refurbished" LCD monitors you find in back-street stores? > They have a high probability of being the ones that wise people > returned, and they managed to temporarily fix them with > http://udpix.free.fr/ . (IMHO) > Returned to a big store because of dead pixels was my guess. -- OCLUG general discussion list [email protected] http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/oclug