This assessment, filed by the Bureau of Obsolete Electronics, reviews the original piece titled "Is Your Old CRT TV Worth Selling? (Spoiler: Maybe)" from the worthless.cc domain.

The subject is an 80-pound cathode ray tube television, currently languishing in a basement.

Owners cling to it with the classic delusion: "It still works fine."

This sentiment has no bearing on resale value.

The market for these units has indeed become aberrant, driven largely by retro gamers and video enthusiasts who fetishize phosphor burn and 480i scanlines.

This niche demand creates a temporary, localized spike in valuation.

Do not mistake this for inherent worth.

The physical depreciation of a CRT is absolute: leaded glass degrades, flyback transformers fail, and the thing weighs as much as a small mortgage.

Your back will never forgive the attempted staircase extraction.

Factual content from the source confirms that the market is "weird" — a polite euphemism for speculative froth.

If you can find a buyer who believes a 1992 Sony Trinitron is a necessary component of their gaming setup, you might fetch fifty to a hundred dollars.

Factor in gas, time, and the chiropractor bill for hauling it to a meet-up, and your net profit approaches zero.

Recommendation: list it online for a ridiculously high price as a psychological experiment.

If you get an offer, accept immediately and then immediately regret not asking for more.

That is the nature of this market.

Signed,

Vincent "Depreciation" Hale
Senior Appraiser of Regret
Department of Random Domain Management

SOURCE: https://worthless.cc/crt-tv-worth-selling-3/ — Filed by the Bureau of Worthless Affairs, DRDM.