Ben and I have wanted a nice, new posh tv now for awhile.  But for what we wanted, we would easliy be spending $1000.00 or more.  No matter how we have tried to justify it, there is no justification for such a purchase right now.

Well when we went to get Baby Kit's year photos done at Sears, Ben was looking in the TV dept. w/ Sam while I was making the boy smile.  When we were done, Ben asked me to come look at something.  It was a used Samsung, 32 inch., HDTV with a flat panel screen.  I think he expected me to say no way, but when I saw the word USED - I knew that bartering was VERY possible.  The TV had a few dings, but it was a 32 inch, flat panel, hdtv!


So, I went to the salesman and said I had a few questions about a TV and brought him over.  As nice as pie I asked about the warranty.  He told us that it had the same warranty as the new TVs.  I then nicely asked about the price, which I thought was too high. 

The salesman immediately starting saying that it was already reduced and that there is no way that they would go lower.  Well that is when Ben knew to become bad cop to my good cop.  We have done this before and that is how we bought my SUV below cost, lol.

Well before you knew it, the salesman revelaed that the TV had no remote control or manuel as well.  He was whole-heartedly agreeing that it was overpriced and that we would be doing him a favor by taking it off their hands.  He then explained that he was just the assistant manager and only the manager could approve a further markdown.  So he took our name and number and we took his.

The next day Ben called and went back and forth with the manager.  Well, today Ben picked up our new TV, which we got for 70% off!  WOO HOO!!!!  We got this bad boy for $300 bucks!!!!  Can you hear me screaming WOO HOO!!!!!!!!!  And we don't need the remote cause our TIVO remote will do the job just fine and we got the manuel online for free!  WOO HOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The kids were so excited with the new TV that when we brought in the house, they started hugging it.  I must confess, I wanted to hug it too!  So I am now off, to watch my new, used TV!!!!!