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Tech Video of the week: Computer repair fraud.
Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Well another week has gone by and here is another video clip pick of the week. This is by no means a new clip but for those of us out there that might enjoy using a computer but do not have the first idea how to fix it if it stops working. Have a look a this. These folks took a pefectly functional computer and then pulled a simple plug lose so that it would not boot up and then took it to a variety of different places to have it repaired. And it just goes to show you what you don't know might be bad for you.


The quick fix for this would have been to simply plug the cable back in and let the customer know that it was something that simple and if you had to charge them a fee the least you could do would be to show them so that if it ever acts that way again they could repair it themselves. Unfortunately that is not what happened with most of the places that they took this computer to most either tried to sell something that they computer did not really need or charged an extremely high rate to plug in the cable.


There was one local repair shop that was nice enough to fix the problem and charge them nothing. Whatever you do beware if and when you have to take your computer in to have it fixed if you know nothing about them then chances are you are going to be mislead if you are not careful.

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