On October 6, 2009 at 02:32, JonW747 said...
adt2- some folks around here just get their panties in a bunch whenever someone manages to do something on their own without overpaying a "pro" to design them a "solution".
It's great that he fixed it.. but don't come on here with some complete bullshit that his total invested time was 15 minutes. If it was simply the battery terminals as he says anyone should have been able to figure that out just by opening the battery cover, I've figured that one out an many occasions.
Repair prices are determined by the actual cost that the company has calculated that it will take to perform the fix. From the price of the circuit board to the average amount of time an employee will sit on a tech support call to the amount of time an admin will take to enter the order of the part, track the shipping, enter in the receipt of the part, entering the customer info into a database, charging the part to the customer, assembling the bill for the customer, a technician to do the repair, the time the technician takes to write up a service slip and enter his time on his weekly time sheet, the admin taking this info and coming up with a final charge, admin entering info into UPS for shipping, someone to box the unit up and attach the shipping label.. and so on..
The price is the price for a reason.. if you don't like it move to a commune and start baking bread to trade with the guy down the street for beads..