So went to Best Buy to look at televisions today. My mother was in the market for a new television and was fighting between the LG E7, Sony A1E, Sony 930E, and Samsung Q7F. The OLEDs looked amazing and my mom was very heavily considering the Sony A1E (it looked AMAZING). Unfortunately, my mother's the kind of person who leaves the TV on something like CNN and walks out of the room. Sooner or later, I felt we'd get permanent burn-in. When I mentioned the 930E, the guy working there mentioned they had an open box of that.
After looking at the open boxes, they had a 930E 55' for $1400, a Q7F 65' for $2000, a 75' 900E for $2000, and a 65' Q9F for $2700. The $2700 price tag caught my eye because the sticker price for the Q9F was $3500. This was an $800 discount. What gives?! Well after looking closely at the price tag and speaking with the attendant, apparently the discounted open box price was on a $3200 sticker price for the TV and not $3500. Looking at the open box sticker on the Q9F, it said the same thing. If we didn't buy the TV right there and then, they were going to have to raise the price of the television to $3200 open box.
On one hand, I could have been getting railroaded for a sale. On the other hand, the price on all only stores for a Q9F is definitely $3500 at the moment. Soon after, another couple showed up and they begin their pitch to them to pick up the television. I'm certain a part of it was to put the pressure on us for a sale. Well considering this was $800 of an open box return, and reviewing the Q9F in person, we decided to go for it and picked up the television as it was literally only $200 more expensive than a Q7F 65'.
We've set the delivery of the television to be two weeks from now because I wanted to report back here and ask how good of a deal is $2700 for a 65' Q9F? Is there enough of a difference to justify skipping on the Sony A1E, LG E7 because of burn-in problems? Or is this TV a little bit of overkill and we should downgrade? We have until January 14th to cancel the sale.