Samsung LE40F86BDX - best price?

Ctight

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Apr 9, 2008, 7:14:48 PM4/9/08

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Hi I'd like to buy a Samsung LE40F86BDX.

Cheapest price I can see is Ł930 from Pixmania.

http://www.pixmania.co.uk/uk/uk/669922/art/samsung/le40f86bd-lcd-television.html

Anyone beat that or suggest other places to try?

Many thanks in advance.

Ken Wright

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Apr 10, 2008, 5:58:05 AM4/10/08

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Personally after a lot of the reviews I have seen, I can't say I'm a big fan
of Pixmania. Also you have to take into account the delivery charge which
would appear to boost the price to £1,010. That comes with a 2 year
warranty.

Now, another approach might be to go to John Lewis who would like to charge
you £1,249 for it,
http://www.johnlewis.com/230453383/Product.aspx
albeit you get a 5 year warranty, and then ask them to price match Empire
Direct, who are selling it for £1,049 + £25 delivery.
http://www.empiredirect.co.uk/content/products/details/index~modelcode~SAM-LE40F86BDX.htm

This is slightly higher price wise, but you get the benefit of having bought
from John lewis who's aftersales care is excellent, and most importantly you
get a 5 year warranty instead of only 2. If this thing goes wrong you will
have an expensive pile of junk, so I really would recommend you go for a 5
year warranty whatever you do.

Also, check out reviews etc and litreally thousands of examples of people
doing exactly what I have said above with those two shops in particular at
the online forum Afterdawn.
http://www.avforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=262433&highlight=john+lewis+pricematch+lcd
There are a couple of huge threads devoted to the John Lewis price match
deal (One for LCD TVs and one for Plasma), and I actually bought my Samsung
LE37R87BDX exactly the way I have described above from those two shops.

For a pricematch to be valid the TV has to be on display with a priceticket
on the shelf, and for most of the popular models I believe this is true at
almost any of the Empire Direct stores.

Failing all that you might want to give beyond Television a call as albeit
out of stock at the moment (It does say stock due soon, but I'd check) they
have it listed at £937 with FREE delivery, which assumibg they do get stock
would be a saving again.
http://www.beyondtelevision.co.uk/thisProduct.asp?ID=1088

Regards
Ken..........................

"Ctight" <Cti...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi I'd like to buy a Samsung LE40F86BDX.
>

> Cheapest price I can see is £930 from Pixmania.

Adrian C

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Apr 10, 2008, 6:03:07 AM4/10/08

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Ken Wright wrote:
> Personally after a lot of the reviews I have seen, I can't say I'm a big fan
> of Pixmania.

FWIW Most of these reviews applied to the company as was before they
were bought by DSG and an internal french £10 million fraud operation
found and squashed...

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixmania>

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Adrian C

Ctight

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Apr 10, 2008, 5:59:16 PM4/10/08

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Wow. Thanks a million for taking the time to post this Ken. Very informative
and helpful.

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Ken Wright

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Apr 11, 2008, 1:56:50 AM4/11/08

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"Ctight" <Cti...@hotmail.com> wrote in message

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> Wow. Thanks a million for taking the time to post this Ken. Very
> informative and helpful.

You're very welcome, and I hope you get a good deal, wherever you go.

Besy Wishes
Ken.....................

Steven Campbell

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Apr 12, 2008, 1:51:12 PM4/12/08

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"Ctight" <Cti...@hotmail.com> wrote in message

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You may want to hold off and get the Samsung LE-A656 (new model) as the
LeF86 has quite a few "issues" at the moment.

New model: http://www.avforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=720970

F86 with problems http://www.avforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=590827