
In the auto world, it’s known as a lemon. Consequently, the car often requires more repairs during its lifetime than the average vehicle. In many cases, the initial problem signals that the car was poorly manufactured. Think of it like the brand new car that comes out of the showroom needing repairs within a few weeks of purchase. While the set is likely to experience few or no problems after repair, the odds that it could rise once it needed to be fixed in the first place. How else are you going to get a 70-inch 4K TV from a name brand like Samsung for a price like that?īut before you hit the ‘Buy’ button, I have to caution against buying an open-box TV. And the retailer is selling a Samsung open-box 70-inch 4K TVfor just $388. For example, Best Buy now is selling an ‘open-box’ LG 55-inch OLED TV for $1,031, which is roughly $200 off the regular price. The price difference sometimes can be hard to resist.


The TV merchants will then try to fix the set (if a repair is truly needed) and re-sell them with lower prices.īest Buy calls them ‘open-box’ TVs while Amazon refers to them as ”certified refurbished.’ Best Buy, and other retailers and online sellers, will often slash prices on TVs (and other electronics) that have been returned for a variety of reasons including missing parts, faulty components or simply sub-par performance. What is an open box TV and should I buy one? I’m guessing it’s a TV that was used before and brought back, right? - Gene, Annapolis, Maryland. I was looking at Best Buy the other day and I see that they have even bigger discounts on TVs that are called open box TVs.
