I Sold TVs for 40 Years. Here’s What Really Happened to the TV Repairman

🛒 Everything I learned in 40 years on the selling side of the counter, in plain words. 📘 BUY IT ONCE - get it here: https://askvincentthomas.com If your family ever had a man come to the house, kneel behind the television and have it working again before the coffee got cold, you already know who this is about. Then one day nobody fixed televisions anymore, and nobody ever told you why. I'm Vince Thomas. I sold televisions and appliances for 40 years, and some of the best men I ever met worked at the bench in the back of the stores I called on. This is what really happened to the TV repairman. In this video: • How a country with hardly any TV sets built an army of repairmen almost overnight • The honest ones, the crooked ones, and the state agents who hid in living rooms to catch them • Why color TV was the best thing that ever happened to the repairman, for about ten years • How service calls dropped from four a year to half a call, and who made that happen • The day I sold a man a new set while he was holding his repairman's estimate • Who still fixes TVs today, the new right-to-repair laws, and when your set is worth fixing No gimmicks here. Just the men I knew, the facts behind them, and what a salesman saw from the other side of the counter. Tell me the name of your TV repairman, the town, and what he charged. If you were the repairman, tell me the name on your shop door. I go through every comment. Chapters: 0:00 The repairman and the little mirror 3:10 How fast television took over 4:41 Leon's bench in the back room 6:07 Crooked repairmen and the state stings 7:39 The fifty-dollar tube 8:26 The guide I put all of this in 9:15 Color TV and the ring of wire 11:55 The sets that stopped breaking 14:26 Mr. Kunkel shuts his shop 15:40 Leon's empty bench 16:56 When new got cheaper than fixed 18:13 I sold him the new set 20:44 Leon's last day 22:01 Where the repairmen went 22:37 Flat screens finish the job 24:23 The last repairman I could find 26:40 Who still fixes TVs today 28:38 The right-to-repair laws 29:34 Should you fix your TV? 30:34 What really happened to the TV repairman 31:31 What I found in his tube case Watch more: I Sold TVs for 40 Years. Here's What Really Happened to Zenith and RCA    • I Sold TVs for 40 Years. Here's What Reall...   $733 Million in Sales. Then Two Guys Closed Every Store on Purpose    • $733 Million in Sales. Then Two Guys Close...   $720 Million in Sales. Then Korvettes Closed for Good on Christmas Eve    • $720 Million in Sales. Then Korvettes Clos...   #TVRepair #VintageTV #Nostalgia #Zenith #RetailHistory