The LG 55EA9800 OLED TV, launched exclusively through Magnolia...
The LG 55EA9800 OLED TV, launched exclusively through Magnolia Design Centers within select Best Buy locations last month, is available for order “in any Best Buy store,” according to the BestBuy.com website. Due to “limited availability,” however, the $14,999 TV is on display only in the following Magnolia locations: West Los Angeles, Mission Viejo, San Francisco and Santana Row in California; Denver; Danbury, Conn.; Aventura, Fla.; Chicago; Novi, Mich.; Richfield, Minn.; Portsmouth, N.H.; New York City and Westbury in New York; Dallas, North Rim and The Woodlands in Texas; Springfield, Va.; and Bellevue, Wash. Although the Best Buy website also listed the $8,999 Samsung KN55S9CAFXZA OLED TV as a new product available in-store only, a quick scan of ZIP codes showed none of the Samsung models available at the roughly 20 New York City-area stores and none available in Best Buy stores in the Atlanta, St. Louis, Seattle, Chicago, Dallas or Los Angeles areas. It wasn’t clear which stores, if any, had the Samsung OLED TV on display. A Best Buy spokeswoman wasn’t able to tell us by our deadline how many Best Buy stores are showcasing the OLED, and she didn’t provide sales data for LG or Samsung OLED TVs citing company policy. Neither company responded by our deadline regarding early OLED TV sales data.