Re: FS: (18) LCD1901HD 19" HD LCD MONITORS, NEW IN BOX

[nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston)]

"Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>"Dave Houston" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>
>> Plus - a story in today's NYT recommends waiting til January when dealers
>> will be dumping excess inventory.
>
>In today's quarter by quarter business world, Christmas usually means the
>last chance a vendor will get to pump up their sales figures, even if those
>sales don't push up profts they still make Wall St. happy because it means
>the company is not holding inventory into the new year.  That's when we see
>plenty of markdown ads as vendors fear the older, more expensive models will
>have to be sold at a loss.  The Superbowl skews those figures a bit, giving
>some 1st quarter relief to TV makers when the folks who didn't make the
>Christmas purchase now spend their $ on a big screen TV.
>
>There was lots of industry chatter last year about Olevia entering the
>market and doing a lot of damage to the price structure that had been fairly
>stable up until then.
>
>http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:KdltcRasBhkJ:www.syntaxbrillian.com/pdf
>/news/NYTimes_Article.pdf+Olevia+forces+prices+down&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=8&gl=us
>&lr=lang_en
>
>I recall reading somewhere that their plan for this year was to market a 23"
>HDTV for $99 by Christmas time.

Target has the Olevia 219H 19" LCD HDTV (1080i) for $299 so I think a $99
23" model is still a ways off.

http://www.target.com/gp/browse.html/ref=sc_iw_r_1_0/602-1807789-1766224?node=293488011