For me unless it is in the first three years of life or a known problem with a value to get fixed I wouldnt take it in.
For example if a TV is 5 years old and you paid 1k for it you pay roughly $200 per year for a TV. A repair is going to cost $100 to look at and a minimum of $200 to fix or be not fixable. So how much time do you get out of a repaired TV?
1 year, 2 years. You need at least a year to make he cheapest repair worthwhile. And that assumes you gvalue a new TVs quality equally to an old TVs quality and it neglects the risk of your tv being a total lost. Taking into account those two factors you would need at least 2 years out of the repaired tv which to me is a marginal value at best.
Now say in year 3 your 3k TV goes then I probably look at repair. But if Iam buying a commodity TV I dont expect much from it.
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