Best Place To Shop For A Flat Screen

[Nisa]

Anybody know a good discount place to shop for a flat screen TV in BKK? I want a name brand but nothing fancy or big, it is a second TV for a bedroom, and just want to get the best price.

Edited August 27, 2011 by Nisa

[WilliaminBKK]

Powerbuy or Tesco both have flyers online

[beano2274]

My friend just went to the Mall today and got a Samsung 50inch 3D Plasma TV, was labelled at 27000, but it is on promotion at 25,000, and if you have a Thai wife and she uses a Credit Card you get a further 8% discount too.

Realise it is a bit too big for your needs.

Edited August 28, 2011 by beano2274

[Nisa]

My friend just went to the Mall today and got a Samsung 50inch 3D Plasma TV, was labelled at 27000, but it is on promotion at 25,000, and if you have a Thai wife and she uses a Credit Card you get a further 8% discount too.

Realise it is a bit too big for your needs.

Be interesting to go check out and look at ... I've yet to see how these 3D TVS look.

[Nisa]

Powerbuy or Tesco both have flyers online

Thanks for that. Never been or noticed a Powerbuy but we shop at Tesco a lot and nice to know we can go online and see the sales before going.

[somchaimaidai]

I just got a 42'' LCD last week and surprising after comparing Makro, Tesco, Carrefour I was strolling around Emporium and noticed that, certainly for the size I was interested the electrical section of Emporium was the cheapest. Also as a previous poster says if you have a Thai credit card you can get additional (I got 8%).

[givenall]

Powerbuy or Tesco both have flyers online

I bought mine at MBK 5th floor video shop i got a 55Samsung 6400 series for 55kb . This is selling for 64kb at Powerbuy.

Don’t just pay what they ask and bargain with them to get lower price

[ricklev]

Powerbuy will usually give you the same 8 percent discount for cash or with your Thai ATM card. Just ask...

[lomatopo]

Samsung has an 11 day Sale on going, 25 Aug - 4 Sep.

A decent bargain TV might be the Samsung 32" LA32D403 (Series 4) for 9,490. That price should be available at any retail outlet.

The Samsung 40" LA40D550 (Series 5) is 16,490.

[aussiebebe]

Powerbuy is probably the most reasonable as it offers the 8% discount. Another chain 'Digital Best Buy' only offers 5% with credit card or 8% if paying cash. Tesco and other supermarkets sell TVs are much inflated prices, although they do offer clearance items, which offer the lowest price without any warranty. If you want the cheapest then non-brand name TVs like DiStar on clearance can be found for under 8000baht.

The biggest factor is the resolution; if you don't want to watch HD movies (Blu-ray or downloaded via USB) or use the TV as a computer monitor then don't be pressured by a salesman into shelling out for a Full HD TV. A non-HD screen TV will be fine and far cheaper. They are clearly labelled; a Full HD screen is 1080 by 1920, which is just under 2.1million pixels. A non-HD screen is around 700,000pixels - fine for DVDs and cable/sat TV. The large TVs sold cheaply are never Full HD which seems counter intuitive - how can a TV be 50" and not HD? Well, all the pixels are larger too.

[infernalman7]

Places with most choices are:

- Siam Paragon (Power Mall)

- Central World (Powerbuy)

They do deliver from their other branches to your place. So it doesn't really matter where you're buying from.

[Atmos]

Tesco and other supermarkets sell TVs are much inflated prices, although they do offer clearance items, which offer the lowest price without any warranty.

I will disagree with this; we moved to a new location in March and new TV was on the list, having checked prices at specialist electronics stores in the city we found the same model, same warranty, was available at that time from Tesco-Lotus - they were running a promotion on the brand.

A month before or a month after may have been different, but pays to shop around.

As we live rural was also pleased there was no negotiation required over delivery - no fee - as one 'specialist' dealer we went to had a scale of fees based upon distance.

[negreanu]

Powerbuy is probably the most reasonable as it offers the 8% discount. Another chain 'Digital Best Buy' only offers 5% with credit card or 8% if paying cash. Tesco and other supermarkets sell TVs are much inflated prices, although they do offer clearance items, which offer the lowest price without any warranty. If you want the cheapest then non-brand name TVs like DiStar on clearance can be found for under 8000baht.

The biggest factor is the resolution; if you don't want to watch HD movies (Blu-ray or downloaded via USB) or use the TV as a computer monitor then don't be pressured by a salesman into shelling out for a Full HD TV. A non-HD screen TV will be fine and far cheaper. They are clearly labelled; a Full HD screen is 1080 by 1920, which is just under 2.1million pixels. A non-HD screen is around 700,000pixels - fine for DVDs and cable/sat TV. The large TVs sold cheaply are never Full HD which seems counter intuitive - how can a TV be 50" and not HD? Well, all the pixels are larger too.

The price difference between 720p and 1080p is so small now. It makes no sense to go 720p unless its a small screen size. Used to be major difference in price but these days a couple of thousand at that.

Would recommend sinsiamelectronics in silom they have she awesome deals from time to time and powerbuy. Just note that most of the discounted sets are last years models - this years high end models are very unlikely to have major savings - New sony models still in the 99k+ range.

[Nisa]

Thanks Everyone ... ended up looking at a number of places, including those mentioned here, and found the best deal at the place I went to first (by accident) which was The esplanade in Ratchada. There was a vendor selling TVs for the next few weeks on the bottom floor. Lots of discounted prices and then additional discounts if paying with their card (0% interest) or cash. Ended up getting a Sony 32" (KDL-32BX420) which was about 9700 after the 12% cash discount but I offered 9k and he gave it up for 9300 baht.

Just curious ... I have about 90 channels in my apartment complex through True but I have no cable box and the signal is actually pretty crappy and clearly not digital. I can't beat the price (free) but was curious if we went through True or some direct and had our own dish would it be a Digital Signal with HD programming?.

[SurfRider]

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I recently bought a 32-inch LED Panasonic at Power-Buy. I'd strongly suggest looking at the newer LED screens vs. LCD

I wanted a model that doubled as both a TV and Computer Monitor. If you shop around, you can sometimes find a great deal.

I lucked out on price - it's an "ancient" 2010 model - originally 43,000 Baht - selling in recent months for 39K - recently reduced to 24K for a one month Panasonic promo - The day I arrived, planning to probably buy a Samsung 32-inch LED-- they had received a fax from the mother-ship reducing the last unit they had to 14,990

I couldn't be happier with the sharpness, clarity, and brightness -- I can sit 24 inches away and it's like having a new pair of eyes.

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[SaNim]

Powerbuy or Tesco both have flyers online

I bought mine at MBK 5th floor video shop i got a 55Samsung 6400 series for 55kb . This is selling for 64kb at Powerbuy.

Don't just pay what they ask and bargain with them to get lower price

I got the same for 50k @ Homepro about 1 month ago