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Panasonic TC-P60U50 60-Inch 600hz High Definition Plasma $798 + Free Shipping (Ebay Daily Deal) *it's back*
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60" Panasonic Viera TC-P60U50 600Hz Plasma HDTV $798 + Free Shipping
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Buydig via Ebay has 60" Panasonic Viera TC-P60U50 600Hz Plasma HDTV for $798 with free shipping. Thanks DJ3xclusive
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Great find, repped.
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can one tell if screen is matte or glossy?
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Excellent tv for the money. I bought one right after black friday from Amazon and couldn't be happier. Just make sure you can control room lighting as it is a glossy screen. Also, be aware that this is a "dumb" tv with no apps, no 3D, or other costly gadgets. It's just a basic tv with a gorgeous picture. It has two HDMI ports and one set of component inputs as well as a digital optical and that's it. If you need more ports, you'll have to use a cheap hdmi switcher (check monoprice).
You won't find a better picture for the price. The thumbnail picture of the tv is WRONG. The pedestal is no longer a duck foot style pedestal and looks more like a Samsung or LG. Also, the tv has a clear piece trim plastic all around the bezel giving it a modernized look. Amazon has the same picture as the thumbnail but if you can go to Sam's to check it out in person, you'll see what I mean. The model at Sam's is the P60U54 but it's the exact same set, just a differentiating model number. This set has the same pedestal as the ST and GT series do |
Now this is what I've been waiting for! Time to bite
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Certainly a decent deal, but I would caution anyone buying a large TV to look at the return policy for defective merchandise.
For Buydig, the onus is on the buyer and I can't imagine what it cost to ship a large TV any distance. plus there's the bother of actually keeping the original shipping materials to package it properly for return. Eddie |
Good review of the TV here:
http://reviews.cnet.com/flat-pane...72893.html |
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"Television Returns If you aren't 100% satisfied with your TV purchase, you may return any factory-sealed new or open like-new Television within 45 days from the shipping date. We'll gladly exchange it or give you a refund, whichever you prefer. All returned or exchanged items must be in their original box and include all the original packing material, manuals, and accessories. When you receive your order, we recommend that you keep all packing materials in case you need to return the TV. If you just don't like it - we will accept your return; we just ask that you pay for return shipping and processing fees. You'll also need to pack the TV in its original box with all original packing material, and accessories. We'll arrange for a special shipping carrier to pick up TV (over 41 inches) from your home. We will provide you with the return shipping and processing fee prior to arranging the TV pick up or exchange. If your TV was damaged in shipping - It is important that you inspect the TV (not only the box it came in) prior to signing for it. If the TV is damaged (not the carton), please refuse the delivery and contact us at 1.800.572.3224. All damage related claims must be reported within 48 hours after delivery. A replacement will be sent immediately after we are notified about the damage. If your TV does not seem to function properly - we'll help troubleshoot and determine how to solve the problem; if we can't, we'll arrange for service to assess the television. If the service doesn't resolve the issue, we can arrange for a refund or exchange." Quote:
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I bought this TV on Thursday when it was on 2-day special at Fry's for the same price. The stand is square. The pictures on Pansonic's own site [panasonic.com] also show the square pedestal. Researching on the differences between the U50 and U54, I also found reports that the U54 is missing some of the picture adjustment settings that are on the U50. http://i.imgur.com/AG21UTg.jpg Also confirming that the screen is glossy. Great set though, at a great price. I'm very happy with mine. |
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We should also point out that it runs on 120 volts. |
No tax either, finally pulled the trigger on this. This was pretty much TV of the year for dumb budget 60" TVs. Hoping the return policy doesn't bite me in the ass. Frys has had this at $700 before though. EPP had this at $765 with tax prior to selling out.
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Seriously debating this or the P55UT50 that will be at costco starting on 1/31 for $749. That one will be about $20 more after taxes, and ease of mind of dealing with costco, but I would really rather have the 5 extra inches than the smart TV/3D which I'll probably never use.
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If that doesn't sway you, the actual screen area of a 60" is 20% more than that of a 55" ;) |
Are the HDTV deals going to get better or worse as we move closer to the superbowl. Was looking for a hot deal on a 60 inch.
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I bought this TV around thanksgiving, LOVE it.
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Great customer reviews across amazon :woot:
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I bought the one from SAMs yesterday and have 90 days to return. We were originally looking for a 55", but don't need a smart TV due to Apple TV. Local SAMs had 4 in stock and none on display.
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I bought this from Amazon about a month ago and love it. The difference in size between 60" and the 50" that this replaced for me is amazing.
Changed my life. |
Does anyone have the length and width dimensions of the base? I got this from Fry's last week for $799 and will be building a stand/entertainment center for it before it arrives. Would like the base dimensions before I start cutting wood.
Thanks, -Joe |
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Dimensions with stand Height [inches (mm)] 34.8" (883 mm) Width [inches (mm)] 55.2" (1,401 mm) Depth [inches (mm)] 15.3" (387 mm) Dimensions W/O stand Height [inches (mm)] 32.9" (835 mm) Width [inches (mm)] 55.2" (1,401 mm) Depth [inches (mm)] Max.: 3.3" (84 mm); General: 2.6" (65 mm) |
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Typically vendors push Super Bowl sales to get people that want "the big TV for the game". From what I understand new models come out in February, so prices will be back to regular/high. Someone correct me if this is wrong, or has changed in the last year or two. |
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Correct me if I'm wrong. I was trying to hold out until this TV hit $700 (tax free, free shipping) but I'm afraid to hold out any longer so I think I'll bite on this one. I did notice that Buydig's policy is "inspect upon delivery", so that means you have to figure out any issues before the delivery guy can leave? What's reasonable to check for while you're making the poor guy wait, just immediate damage or is there some defect to look for? |
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Panasonic direct is now out of stock and this TV has dropped to page two with no way to order now that the 2013 line is out.
I bought three two weeks ago from the EPP site. Great TV, awesome picture and black levels. Using my three in a flight sim setup. Screen is glossy, not so noticeable in a dark room. |
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Why did you have to say that..I am still rocking my 50" LG plasma but man, I wouldn't mind trying something new :) |
My God times have changed. My 60inch Pioneer Kuro Plasma retailed at $6500 4yrs ago and a good entry level Panasonic plasma like this cost less than $800!!!
Isn't technology great? I can't wait till a 70inch OLED go down to $2000. Since 55inch cost $12,000 right now I am guessing give it about 10years? :) |
ok, so how does the ranking go regardding plasma, lcd, led?
1. Plasma, Correct? 2. ??? 3. ??? I completely forgot about LEDs...I'm guessing its last of the 3...but just a guess... |
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I would rather wait for Costco, just yesterday I saw the new Costco sales book and found this deal on first page. $20 more but comes with Costco customer service and extended service plan from Costco, cant beat. Beside that Costco TV isn't smart TV I guess. |
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Good deal on this TV! Too bad I cant fit a 60" in my room. Now when will budy dig offer the nexus 7...
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Thanks for the post, I'm in for 1!!
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so is this TV much better than the 60" LG plasma going on at Fry's for $699??
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I've been on the verge of ordering all day now. I just don't trust the shipping/ return deal. If it was amazon it would have been a no brainer. I just can't chance it.
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Plasmas = Thicker, heavier, use more energy, bad glare BUT amazing viewing angles, amazing picture quality, No ghosting/motion blur, pitch black BLACKS. LED = Very energy efficient, can be very thin, can be very light BUT worse picture quality, lighter blacks (dark gray), can have motion blur or soap opera effect, worse viewing angles LCD = Middle of the road energy efficiency, middle of the road thickness, middle of the road weight, lighter blacks (dark gray), can have motion blur or soap opera effect, worse viewing angles. I have 1 great Samsung plasma that I love and 2 older LCD's. I would have gotten 3 plasmas if my house would have allowed for it. Plasmas have a full glass layer over the top and are really bad with glare, so they are not ideal for all rooms of your house. I would strongly recommend a plasma for a room with very few windows or bright lights. If you can find an area where glare won't be an issue, and energy use and thickness of the TV don't matter, you MUST get a plasma. You will still get a small amount of image retention every now and then, if you leave it on a screen for hours at a time, but the issues of burn-in are pretty much over. |
i saw the UT 50inch for 799 at costco today.
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damnit, I was just about to post this deal thinking I snagged the thread of the century.....
http://www.frys.com/product/6254830 buaah, buaahhhh.... |
Uhhh...that's ok. The dude has accumulated over 375 negative feedbacks with the last 12 months - 49 of those within the last month. You people can throw your $$$ away if you want on this fraudster but I prefer to buy a TV from a dealer that I can walk up to and meet face to face - like Best Buy for example. I would NEVER shell out $700 for a TV from a guy on flea bay - just my 2 cents. Not trying to crap the thread but just giving some sound financial advice. You can take it or leave it..
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Fact: Plasma has best picture quality and cheapest. End of story. |
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The costco price is $749, and with tax about $820 Buydig is $800, so about a $20 difference, which is what he was referring to. So the Costco 55" UT50 comes out to about the same as this 60" U50 |
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Amazon/Costco/Frys/etc. have tax for a lot of people on here. Some people don't realize that eBay offers a much better deal for a lot of us on here (although I do wish the return policy was a bit better, just have to be careful).
Also I wouldn't wait much longer on a good TV deal this year. There's really only a week or two left in "deal season" as far as I know (correct me if I'm wrong). Prices are about as low as they're going to go and many models will start going out of stock soon. Get yourself a set while you can IMO. ;) |
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I got this TV from Frys.com a few weeks ago. WOW! First, the shipping was free (otherwise it would have cost $145!!). When the freight company showed up and I saw the box...it was HUGE!! There was only one guy (no idea how he would have gotten it into my house if I hadn't helped him). He did take the box apart so I could inspect it. My personal opinion is that if the front glass isn't cracked, you're probably good to go. I did buy a Squaretrade warranty for it, just to be safe (used 40% off coupon at the time) It's certainly not a PERFECT tv...but I gotta tell ya...the image quality is unbelievable! You can see the most minutest of details! Separate strands of hair. Really amazing sharpness. The glare is a bummer. There is a company on Amazon that sells an anti-glare/screen protector...but it's expensive. I found the speakers to be much better than I expected. Extremely happy with the purchase, and feel 'safe' with the warranty. It's a big 'ole TV, that's for sure. Do NOT try to lift it by yourself. You could break the glass or drop it (and it's a solid 80+ pounds OUT of the box...in the box, it's about 100 pounds). I was surprised that it doesn't put out hardly any heat at all. Get yourself from HDMI cables from Monoprice and enjoy.
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It's not that heavy, supposed to be 78 without stand, but I mounted them to my homemade stands for my sim by myself. Just a bit wide...lol
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...30932d764c.jpg They look great all together though. Really impressed with the image. http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...ca3952e491.jpg Ad the black levels for night flying are great, can see all the stars.... http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...94597654c7.jpg Looks like I need two more now! |
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Needed to get the displays so I can fly and stay motivated. Was going to use three projectors, but lost the room in the house to our home theater, so I got stuck in the third bay of the garage (not complaining, I like the theater). Anyway, no room for the projectors now so went with three 60's and since these don't have all the bells and whistles, which I didn't need, and the price point was right ($764 from Panasonic EPP when they were in stock), they work great. Bonus is the image quality is excellent! http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...459a824213.jpg http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...94e7a0b5ca.jpg http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...b580e2c513.jpg |
wow that sim setup is awesome!
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tnks OP.. picked up 1.. b4 I missed like the last time... hopefully be here b4 superbowl...
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Awesome TV. I picked one up a few weeks ago and the glare is a bummer, but damn, it's a sweet TV.
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Awesome sim setup! I'm incredibly jealous!
Here's the official weight from the Panasonic website: Weight W/O stand [lbs] 70.6 lbs. Weight with stand [lbs] 81.6 lbs Gross Weight [lbs] 101.5 lbs. |
I got the LG plasma 60 from this thread: http://slickdeals.net/f/5806432-L...up-at-frys
only 699, and kinda surprised it had no traffic on the thread. Bought it on a whim, and floored by the quality. The TV is damn beautiful with the small bezel, and image quality is what you expect from plasma.... simply awesome. Kind of surprised, since I havent been too impressed with LG LCD's and LED's. |
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btw jst bought this tv any recommendation an articulating wall mount. tnks..
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/24..._beat.html |
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Panny has the only better than average score in the image quality of the whole bunch, but I'll give it to you, the LG did score higher in remote, and number of ports. Two of the top things everyone looks for when buying a TV :) |
The only TV I might think about taking over a panny is LG. IMO Panny has a slightly better picture but Reliability and Warrenty are very important to me.
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Am I reading this thread right? This TV can't plan 1080p video well? Want to make sure that..this isn't the case before pulling the trigger. Also how is this tv against burn-in. Does it require that 100hours of breaking in like other plasmas?
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If that sounds like too much work then don't get a plasma. If you just want to plug it in and let the family go wild with the brightness cranked, don't get a plasma. Get an LCD. Plasmas require a bit more than just plug in and go to get the most out of them. |
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That's from over a year ago and the only recent model they've tested since then is the VT50. I'd say PCWorld isn't a very good place to get TV reviews from. They haven't tested the ST50, GT50, UT50, or U50. And rating the Panasonic's as below average for web connected features is ridiculous. If you look at Cnet who's tested far more tvs and uses actual calibration devices they are huge fans of Panasonic. http://reviews.cnet.com/best-hdtvs/ http://reviews.cnet.com/best-high...ition-tvs/ http://reviews.cnet.com/best-plasma-tvs/ If you don't want to read through them Panasonic comes up 13 times and has the top stop on all 3. LG comes up once and at the bottom. |
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On the fence on getting this and fear of plasma glare. I have a 15'x15' room with one 8'x6' window. Right now the 32" lcd sits on the corner next to the window so par of the window is behind the TV. There is only only ceiling light. I wonder what has been your experience on optimal placement of plasma?
Eventually I'd like to put the TV on the NE wall and the window would be on the N wall. Is sunlight coming from the side create much glare/reflection? If this TV was easily returnable I'd jump on this in no time.... |
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Anyone w/ past experience? TIA :cool: |
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MW-Mounts-125-lb.-Capacity-Low-Profile-Full-Motion-Universal-Mount-MW125C64 [costco.com] |
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We had the option to put the tv on the wall perpendicular (and close) to the sliding glass door with the overhead light directly in front of the tv, but I think the reflection would not have been acceptable there without closing the blinds over the door during the day and turning off the light. That being the door that the dogs go in and out of most of the time I think it might have been a pain. The ambient light downstairs is fairly low so i think those actions would have made it an acceptable location but I think where we have it now is probably the best. Even with that minor reflection issue for us, I am completely happy with this purchase. I hesitated around thanksgiving last year when this was $699 on an EPP deal (this was my first plasma purchase and there were several large LED's on sale at the time as well) and I kick myself now for not jumping on that. I ended up getting it a couple weeks later with the EPP for $764. The picture quality is outstanding. We have a 55" Vizio upstairs (with a matte screen in a very bright room) that we have been very happy with as well, but the deeper blacks on the plasma make much more of a difference than I would have thought. Once I get another blu-ray for this set up I probably won't watch movies upstairs anymore. Regarding other issues that I remember seeing about this tv: - I remember reading rumors of a plasma hum when i was researching this tv but I have never noticed it on ours. - I bought a digital receiver so that I could use some floor speakers from our old analog entertainment system, so the number of HDMI inputs was not a factor for me since the new receiver has plenty. - Smart TV features are not an issue for me either because like someone else has mentioned there are other devices that provide those features that have a much higher chance of getting updated with new functionality as changes and additional features come out. We only have our XBOX hooked into the system so far and it has been awesome for that. One difficulty that I have noticed while gaming split screen (that i did not notice on the Vizio) is playing minecraft. When one player opens a menu (crafting or opening a chest, etc) it is a fairly bright chunk of image in the middle of that screen split, that causes the same general area in the other split to get, or at least appear to get darker, in some cases making it hard for the other player to see what they are doing. I have not tweaked any of the tv settings so far, it is factory default, but I'm thinking I should probably try some tweaks and see if I can reduce or eliminate the problem. This is not a big enough issue for me to regret this purchase either tho. Hope that helps... |
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Home Depot project. Inch and a half galvanized pipe, it's threaded at both end and they will cut it for you. I had them cut it in half (can also use two inch black pipe if you like). One pipe flange Four 5/16th bolts, eight washers, four lock washers, four nuts One of their one inch thick 18" round unfinished table tops (I added a 24" x 24" 3/4 play wood under it) Two U-bolts 24" x 48" 3/4 plywood (I bought the whole sheet and had them cut it as I needed three) Thin mount from monoprice.com Cheap, easy to put together and easy to adjust.... |
Anyone have calibrated settings for this tv or is each unit too different? Anyone get a ca shipping eta?
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My Settings: Picture Mode: Cinema Contrast +97 Brightness +62 Color +61 Tint 0 Sharpness +10 Color Temp Normal Color Management Off C.A.T.S. Off Video NR Off And In Advanced Picture: Block NR: Off Mosquito NR Off Black Level Light 3:2 Pulldown Auto |
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tnks for the settings |
Estimated delivery: Thu. Jan. 31 - Wed. Feb. 13, FML
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Not sure if anyone has gotten tracking information or a call. But I just called BuyDig and they said they were out of stock and expect new stock come in by Friday and my order will ship out Friday or Monday. I ordered at ~3pm PST on 1/27.
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I ordered on Sunday and they have provided me a fake tracking number………. Are they scamming me?
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I ordered mine Monday and Tuesday they sent me an email that they shipped my order, they also provided a tracking number ( the tracking number does not seem to work) According to the email that i received i should receive the tv by Friday...
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Ordered mine on Sunday, the 27th, no shipping details released to me yet. I noticed that the shipping details link they provided me is no longer there either.
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Well damn, now Frys is selling this for $700 (no tax for me, free shipping). According to my tracking number (freight shipping through "Team Worldwide") the TV will arrive today. Buydig's policy says if the TV isn't broken you have to pay return shipping/processing fees which would likely cancel out the $100 difference. Even if the TV is damaged it looks like they prefer replacement over refund so it looks like we're stuck out of the Frys deal. :( lol
http://slickdeals.net/f/5833390-F...e-Shipping |
Since my order didn't ship yet I was able to cancel and jump on the frys deal. Even with tax I still save some $ plus get it sooner.
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Edit again, they called and shipping it today. |
Mine arrived today. Picture is awesome. Really nice TV.
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Mine arrived today too. I was lucky enough that I called in sick today to received it if not will be Monday.. Now I'm felling much better.. Going to Home Depot to get parts to make a stand. Also my articular mount arrive yesterday.. I guess 2 60" will be enough for this Super Bowl... Go 49ers!!!!! Big tnks SD!!!!!
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OT: Squaretrade warranty just added w/ (2/2/13 only $49 off)
I just got 4 years warranty coverage from Squaretrade for only $70.99 after today's upto $49.00 off promo.
Go to squaretrade and generate quote by entering ebay item # [squaretrade.com]321062984656 [squaretrade.com]. Then choose 3yr or also add 4th yr and apply new coupon generated from today's earlier slickdeal (Squaretrade 49% off (up to $49) ANY Protection Plan, today only 2/2/13 until 9pm EST..) I realize that we have only 1hr 15 min left in the Squaretrade promotion, HTH. |
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