Sony TV Scrappage Scheme

Sony have launched their TV scrappage scheme on the 29th April, where any Sony customer can trade in their old TV for anything between £50 and £150 off the price of a Sony Bravia LCD TV from John Lewis. Sony are the first major electronics company to test a trade in scrappage scheme of this kind in the UK, and they are anticipating that sales will jump as they did last year with their first run of their sucessfull trade in. John Lewis are one of the first UK stores to sign up for the Sony TV scrappage scheme, and you can also get similar trade-in scrappage deals from Comet, Currys, and Tesco Extra. No information on the scrappage allowances have been added to their website ( www.johnlewis.com ) so until then the only online shop where the scrappage discount is available is Comet.

How the John Lewis TV scrappage scheme will work…

• Visit John Lewis using the link above
• Select the TV you’re after
• Use the code shown at the top of the page
• You get a free 5 year warranty from John Lewis which you have to pay for from other shops
• You also get free delivery, and we presume free pickup up your scrapped TV

The beauty of the John Lewis TV scrappage scheme is that you can trade in any TV and it doesn’t matter if it works or not. Sony will still offer you a discount no matter what the size, shape or colour. if you’ve got an old tv in the attic, now is the time to take advantage of the John Lewis TV scrappage scheme. We assume that the John Lewis discounts will be similar to Comet’s where you can expect to save around £50 on the smaller TV’s, £100 off the 40” sets, and £150 discount on the 46” Sony Bravia TV. Comet do have £200 off the 52″ LCD Bravia, but that appears to be a one off.

John Lewis Sony TV Trade In Scrappage Scheme is green…

If you drop rubbish off at the local tip, you notice the large number of TV’s that people have dropped off. Sadly many people don’t think twice about throwing a TV set away and using up landfill and polluting the area. The John Lewis Sony TV trade in scrappage scheme will go some way to keeping those TV’s out of landfill as they can be recycled. The main aim of the exercise is to get people to buy a new TV, but the environmental aspect is a nice side effect.

If the Sony scheme takes off at John Lewis, Comet, et al, we expect many other TV manufacturers to follow suit and offer their own version of the Sony TV scrappage scheme at John Lewis. How long before Sharp, Panasonic, Toshiba, and the rest of them take to cotton on is anyone’s guess, but it won’t be long.

The TV scrappage scheme at John Lewis has come at just the right time for UK consumers, as many people are having to switch over to digital TV with the analogue signal being switched off soon. The John Lewis Sony TV scrappage scheme will end in July, so now is the time to act before all the best models are bought up from John Lewis!