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Re: £500 for an LE6000 ??!!

solderon29 — Sun, 11 May 2008 09:58:01 GMT

I'll get me coat!!

Nick

Re: £500 for an LE6000 ??!!

Craig — Sun, 11 May 2008 06:05:36 GMT

Alex:

I wonder if I could P/X my BeoVision 601 + a long stick?

Alex, I like your way of thinking.

Craig

Re: £500 for an LE6000 ??!!

9 LEE — Sat, 10 May 2008 17:17:46 GMT

Alex:
I wonder if I could P/X my BeoVision 601 + a long stick?

Sure, as long as the long stick had a B&O remote sellotaped to it...

Re: £500 for an LE6000 ??!!

Alex — Sat, 10 May 2008 15:08:19 GMT

I wonder if I could P/X my BeoVision 601 + a long stick?

Re: £500 for an LE6000 ??!!

9 LEE — Sat, 10 May 2008 14:56:19 GMT

When i was in California last month i popped into the Rancho Mirage dealership and saw an offer for 6000 and 8000's with a minimum px i felt was a little on the low side to be honest.

I think the TV campaign is a great idea as the older CRT's are all but worthless now, and £500 is a crazy allowance for an old 80's/90's television. It's a different way of chopping prices and rewarding present B&O customers for their loyalty. I like it - positive thinking.

Lee

Re: £500 for an LE6000 ??!!

camshaft — Sat, 10 May 2008 14:25:26 GMT

Don't they already have a similar current program for trading in Pentas towards beolab 5's or 9's? I remember seeing a sign about it last time I was at a dealer.

Re: £500 for an LE6000 ??!!

Medogsfat — Sat, 10 May 2008 12:18:36 GMT

KingStreet:

The "rule" is simply a working B&O TV (with a working remote) is worth a minimum of £500 against any new Beovision TV ( BV8 26 excluded)
Its a one for one offer, so if you have two old MX TV's, or an MX and and LE, or whatever, you can get £500 per TV against two replacements.
Not sure why some see this as either cynical or not a good deal.
If you own an old ME or LS / LX / LE from the early 80's ( and there are many, many who still do ) you can upgrade to a Bvis 8 32, or Bvis 7, get the LCD equivalent in size & quality, and in effect, you would have had the use of a free TV - a very good, market leading, highly reliable one at that - for the last 15/20 years or more.
So not really like Bose.......

Now that's a very well put point - especially the last comment

Chris.

Re: £500 for an LE6000 ??!!

KingStreet — Sat, 10 May 2008 11:18:52 GMT

The "rule" is simply a working B&O TV (with a working remote) is worth a minimum of £500 against any new Beovision TV ( BV8 26 excluded)

Its a one for one offer, so if you have two old MX TV's, or an MX and and LE, or whatever, you can get £500 per TV against two replacements.

Not sure why some see this as either cynical or not a good deal.

If you own an old ME or LS / LX / LE from the early 80's ( and there are many, many who still do ) you can upgrade to a Bvis 8 32, or Bvis 7, get the LCD equivalent in size & quality, and in effect, you would have had the use of a free TV - a very good, market leading, highly reliable one at that - for the last 15/20 years or more.

So not really like Bose.......

Re: £500 for an LE6000 ??!!

9 LEE — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:03:10 GMT

Craig:
So if you are in the market for a new TV it would be worth buying an old one on Ebay just to part ex.
Craig

Hmmm... Supply and Demand drives any market, so watch the old CRT's start making just under £500 on ebay!!

Lee

Re: £500 for an LE6000 ??!!

Craig — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:41:07 GMT

So if you are in the market for a new TV it would be worth buying an old one on Ebay just to part ex.

Craig

Re: £500 for an LE6000 ??!!

solderon29 — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:20:15 GMT

A rather unoriginal marketing ploy,copied from Bose! Dealers are obliged to dispose of your old tv by law since last year anyway,they all get sent to China to be turned into i.pods!(the telly's that is,not the Dealers!)

Of course it's more dignified than giving a discount off the new set,which would set a precident!!

Re: £500 for an LE6000 ??!!

Roger — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:12:31 GMT

A similar deal will be offered in Scandinavia, but only if you buy the BeoVision 8 during the summer campaign.

Roger

Re: £500 for an LE6000 ??!!

9 LEE — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:17:16 GMT

Razz1971:
It must be 500£ if you buy a new one at your dealer.

That's correct as i understand.

Re: £500 for an LE6000 ??!!

wirralsimon — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:13:36 GMT

It would be shame if this meant loads of classic old B&O TVs with plenty of life left in them ended up in landfill because of this!

An LX is a much better buy than a low-end LCD and at a fraction of the price!

Simon

Re: £500 for an LE6000 ??!!

demonell — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:02:00 GMT

Jandyt:

Sounds great! Can you just clarify, is that £500 off the purchase of a new TV?
Andy T.

One would assume so unless they have completely lost thier danish marbles.. However, it's not such a daft move, as I suspect the average purchaser of a new bno tv is, stastically, unlikley to have a 15 year old crt lying about the place.

And those who do still have such golden oldies do so because either, they love them and wouldn't change for all this modern rubbish, or, because they can't afford or chose not to purchase a new bno set.

For those who think bno t.v.'s are overpriced. Or should that be extraordinarily overpriced, a mere £500 will not I suspect tip the balance.

All that said, it's a great headline grabbing campaign, so hats off to the bno marketing dept.

Or am I being too cynical?