What to do with my TV ?

[ANZinSingapore]

After all these years, I have finally bought a new flat screen LED TV.

Now, what am I going to do with my perfectly good LARGE Sony Trinitron 36" TV   ??


Anyone have any suggestions ?


Do people buy these older TV's here in Singapore ?

I bought it in Australia approx 15 years ago.

[Old Mike]

Leave it on the void deck

[some solutions]

The options I can think of:

- take it to Cash Converters and they'd give you some cash for it (but you'd have to lug it there yourself) - don't forget to take your ID as they will want to see that.

- donate it to the red cross (they have a shop up on the Siglap estate but it's only open on Fridays and selected Sundays - their website gives details).

- put an advert on the condo notice board, or (if you don't live in a condo) the local supermarket notice board.  We had an old Sony TV and sold that and a DVD player for $100 to a neighbour (nothing wrong with the TV, very good picture in fact but big and old and not as fancy as a flat screen).  If you don't want any cash for it, just say that it's going free - buyer collects.

- give it to the Karang Guni man if he'll take it

- again, if you live in a condo, ask the cleaners if they want it.  We had a portable DVD player which wasn't working and one of them took it off my hands because she said she had a nephew who might be able to get it working, so I would think they'd definitely be interested.

- if you live in a house, you could put it outside with a big notice saying 'Free to Good Home' and leave it there on a dry day and I reckon someone will come along and take it.  But if you live in a house, I would think that there must be a Karang Guni man who does the route around there.

[ANZinSingapore]

Thanks folks...

All good suggestions...

I'll take one of them up shortly.

I just need to go out an get some furniture this weekend - suitable for a flat screen stand.

Cheers

[Kubes.SG]

Give it to your maid.  She can get it shipped home cheaply.   We had an old Sony 34" CRT TV and when it finally expired we gave it to the maid who shipped it back to PH where the wizards there fixed it up.  Don't bother with the local charities, they have hundreds of millions of $$$ in assets.

[MrSceptic]

its got to weigh over 100kg right, and would have thought that a 15yr old TV is worth so little that the cost of shipping in anywhere would be prohibitive. Still it's worth a try as at least it would benefit someone. The alternative is to pay someone to take it away

[do-gooder]

Give it to your maid.  She can get it shipped home cheaply.   We had an old Sony 34" CRT TV and when it finally expired we gave it to the maid who shipped it back to PH where the wizards there fixed it up.  Don't bother with the local charities, they have hundreds of millions of $$$ in assets.

We offered our old TV to our maid, who seemed very enthusiastic to take it.  Then it sat in our living room for a couple of months until I finally got fed up and called some charity guys who take away old furniture and such.  They came along to remove it, using the service lift - shortly after we noticed my husband's $2000 bike had also disappeared.....

[i would]

chuck it. We had the same issue when we upgraded to plasma. Although maids will literally take anything free that's going, I had same experience as previous poster where it sat around for two weeks going nowhere because the maid had to wait for payday or some friend was going to take it blah blah blah. In the end I left it in the basement carpark and it was gone in 15 minutes. I think the gardener took it. Sometimes it's just better to pass it on and let the universe take care of who gets it next. You got 15 years out of it which I'd say is good value.

[DB]

drag it to the kerb mate

[achilles_ath]

Three options:

1. Offer to the maid if it makes sense.
2. List it on sgfreecycle yahoo group which is for getting rid of stuff like this for free. I got rid of two TV's last year smoothly. I chose the people based on perceived need
3. Ask your condo security guards/staff if any of them are interested. They deserve it.

[atfc]

After all these years, I have finally bought a new flat screen LED TV.

Now, what am I going to do with my perfectly good LARGE Sony Trinitron 36" TV   ??


Anyone have any suggestions ?


Do people buy these older TV's here in Singapore ?

I bought it in Australia approx 15 years ago.

can sell them to "garung guni". they collect all sorts of stuffs. or you can try cash converter to see how much it is worth.