Holiday TV – President’s Day Discounts?

Holiday TV – President’s Day Discounts?
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​While we still have some time before Samsung’s (005930.KS) 2022 Mini-LED/Quantum Dot TVs actually become available, we checked in again to see if the pricing of the 2021 models has changed for President’s Day, a state holiday (formerly known as Washington’s Birthday) that is observed in only 38[1] of the states in the US on the 3rd Monday in February.   The results were mixed, with 40.0% of TV prices in the 35 we track increasing, 14.3% decreasing, and 45.7% remaining the same. There was almost no rhyme or reason to those changes, although that leads us to believe they are likely inventory related, but the only identifiable pattern being the price increases on almost all of the low-end quantum dot models, which saw some aggressive discounting during the Super Bowl.  Other than that President’s Day does not seem to be a time to take advantage of TV discounts, at least not this year.


[1] Not Observed in: Delaware, Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Carolina, Rhode Island, or Wisconsin.  Georgia & Indiana celebrate Washington’s Birthday on December 24th and New Mexico celebrates President’s Day on the Friday after Thanksgiving.