Try our new info resource - "Aladdin's Cave" (Main menu)Just added a separate link to Ash's Dropbox thread (shortcut)
£550 for a micowave? Did the salesman wear a tricorn hat, and a couple of flintlock pistols, and go by the name of Dick Turpin? You were robbed!
Speaking of fixing TVs, I used to be a telly fixer. I once had a Ferguson 9000 colour TV. Anyway, in a skip up the road, there was a TV just like mine. I took it home and removed all the pcbs for spares (which came in handy later) and, to make it safe, I broke the neck of the crt to release the vacuum. As I was putting it back on the skip and old geezer asked me what was wrong with it. I told him it had just stopped working so he pulled it off the skip and said he finds tellies on skips and takes them to the repair shop to get them fixed and then sells them.I smiled and wished him good luck.