With the headlong rush to buy flat screen LCD tv's there are literally hundreds and hundreds of these Avants available for sale. So many in fact you "can't give 'em away".
The service counters are for "anoraks", they mean very little. She won't be watching the service counters, she'll be watching the picture. So, does it have a good picture at the "standard" settings?? That is the most important thing.
Default picture settings are Billiance 32, Colour 32, Contrast 44. If it does not look good at these settings, walk away!
Does the DVD player work? Test it, it's no good complaining when you get home!
Most digiboxes will work just fine with the Avant 32DVD but you may have to control it with it's own remote if it is not in the chip. Many hundreds are. My wife will not use the Beo4 to control our Sky boxes, so I have given up trying to convince her. She still watches D*ck van D*ck or some other "who done it" from America so it must be simple!!!
And finally.......I would offer £350 on the grounds that you need to buy a remote and leave it at that. They are like London buses, there will be another one along soon!