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B.D. asks from Pittsburgh, PA on February 05, 2012

Does Superbowl = New TV in Your House?

Reading the paper this week they stated some absurd number of new televisions that will be purchased to watch the "big" game. Really??? We are still in an economic downturn so why would people plop down money for a new TV just to watch the Superbowl. Maybe I'm too logical...

So did your household purchase a new TV to watch the Superbowl?

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J.F. answers from Tallahassee on February 06, 2012

Absolutely not. The TV that we have works perfectly fine.

Although, I guess if you were in the market for a new TV that it would have been a good time to buy because there seemed to be lots of good sales.

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J.W. answers from St. Louis on February 05, 2012

A few years ago we were having a big Superbowl party and bought a new TV.

I don't think people buy them for the Superbowl, they have wanted to make the purchase for a while and use the Superbowl as the excuse to pull the trigger.

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☆.A. answers from Pittsburgh on February 05, 2012

LOL!

Kind of like roaster pan sales peaking in Mid-November?
And heart-shaped cake pans in Feb.?

Nah--we didn't need a new one!

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S.W. answers from Minneapolis on February 05, 2012

We don't even have "TV" just streaming, and even if we did, we wouldn't even watch the Superbowl.

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B.. answers from Dallas on February 05, 2012

Haha! You'd just have to walk in our house and take a peak at our old 15 inch tube TV. No, we don't make frivolous excuses, to purchase frivolous things.

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J.F. answers from Tallahassee on February 06, 2012

Absolutely not. The TV that we have works perfectly fine.

Although, I guess if you were in the market for a new TV that it would have been a good time to buy because there seemed to be lots of good sales.

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K.L. answers from Erie on February 07, 2012

I thought about surprising hubby with a new TV last week. We didn't care about the game much (just loved seeing Pats go down), but this is the best time of the year to get a deal on a TV.

Ultimately, I decided against it... we'll keep waiting for the 27" non-flat screen TV that I bought in 1995 to die before blowing a bunch on a replacement ;)

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M.B. answers from Washington DC on February 05, 2012

YUCK. NO. ...and no, I didn't marry an idiot that is interested in such nonsense, either.

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K.O. answers from Atlanta on February 06, 2012

my hubsand tracked TV prices for a year and a half before he bought one. The superbowl priced TV's are so jacked up that even "on sale" you pay more for them than you would in October.

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K.M. answers from Chicago on February 05, 2012

Heck NO, never would ... Plus we have a monster of a TV as it is 73" do not need anything new anytime soon. Now, if I were looking for a smaller second or third tv like a 30-42 incher this may be the time due to sales, but not just for a game.

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M.B. answers from Austin on February 05, 2012

Nope.... we bought this tv for $20 1 1/2 years ago at our church rummage sale... our other one was giving some problems....

This $20 one is working just fine.... no, it isn't HD or anything.... about 27" ....

We don't have the money for something like that right now...... trying to come up with money for property taxes and what we owe through the IRS......

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B.G. answers from Champaign on February 05, 2012

A couple of years ago stores like Best Buy started charging rather large restocking fees on tv's that were returned the week after the Super Bowl. Seems too many people were "buying" a big screen tv just to watch the game. Haven't heard anything like that happening this year, ... yet!

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M.M. answers from Washington DC on February 05, 2012

Ummmmm yeah we did.
But not for the SuperBowl. Last year the Bears played the Packers in a playoff game and since we were watching a 20" tv in our new house we bought a 55" for the game, only to see my Bears lose. :o(
We used our tax return and the tv was on huge sale. And that 20" tv was 25 years old.

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L.M. answers from New York on February 06, 2012

Nope we bought a new TV a couple of years ago when Circuit City went out of business, for a great price.

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A.G. answers from Houston on February 06, 2012

No, but the fact that a lot of people are is good news for the economy .

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