With the current economic dip now strongly felt in Australia, many companies have put up various marketing gimmicks to sell their products.  Stores in most malls offer discounts, extended warranties and freebies among the many other attention-grabbing tactics that they can advertise to entice buyers.  If not for our current living arrangement now (we’re still renting), where a small TV works for us, we would buy a bigger LCD TV with LCD mount.  That’s always in our to-buy-when-we-become-homeowners list.