We removed dust and installed a new 3 TB Hard-Drive, a new fan and a Radeon 7850 AMD GPU for your sons gaming needs.
A Terabyte can store up to 700 days of music. He will never run out of space.
We also installed a new version of Windows 8.1 Home Edition so he can play games with his friends!
That'll make $1430.
>MUH GAMES
i can see some of the dumb parents falling for this...
>3tb
Please tell me is the seagate one with 30% of drive failure
That never happened.
Neither did this. I should know, I run my own small pc repair shop
>implying you never did that you filthy repair shop owning goy
>That'll make $1430.
Do people actually get paid this much to modify other people's computers by adding a few placebo tier upgrades?
>That never happened.
Bullshit.
>uninformed people get ripped off
More at 11
yes
You have to gauge it correctly so you don't get a bad reputation within your town, especially if its a small town. But yes. Small Business walk-in IT repair is basically a day-long game of spot the retard.
If they walk in and don't know whats wrong AND give you free reign to 'fix' it. Do whatever. Even better is if someone retarded wants a gaming build. Normally you can chat with the customer for a few minutes before they leave you with it. And using more and more vague terms.
If the person looks stumped, you're golden.
If they look scared, unsure, or blank, they might know you're talking shit out your ass. In which case doing the least, or quickest, amount of work is best.
anyone that isn't a dribbling retard can easily fix everything themselves
>overestimating normies
user plz
Kek 3tb is nothing i filled that shit within a year
I have a coworker who asked me what upgrades she should get after I told her about my Fury I had just bought for $260.
Her system was a first gen phenom with ddr2 and an nvidia GPU she couldn't remember the name of.
I told her it would be best to start a fresh build and to either get an i5 k series or wait for zen, but recommended the fury as I was enjoying it.
She ended up getting an 8350, an overpriced msi motherboard, 16gb of ddr3 at a speed said motherboard didn't suppport, and a 1050ti. Her goal was to be "vr ready."
This was like 2 weeks ago.
I almost wanted to flat out tell her she dun fucked up but I didn't have the heart.
>7850
Nice, I already have one sitting in my closet. Time for crossfire.
No. I would charge around a third of that.
No
How much would you charge to re-install WinXP Home edition?
My mom wakled into a shop with her system, running slow. Can you guys make it run better?
Sure.
Re-installed, charged her $300 for a new WinXP Home license p[;use $250 labor. That was three years ago. Her entire system wasn't worth $150.
And, they wiped out everything on her system .. all software, all pictures of her grandkids, all her email, everything. And, she had specifically told them she needed all that that, they promised her nothing would get lost.
Welcome to the Real World, user. Filled with scum.
> inb4
> user, wai you not take care of your mommmy?
I do, and I did. She thought she just needed something simple and didn't want to bother me because I live 800 miles away. If she had waited 2 months, I would have been visiting for Christmas and probably bought her a new system & configured it for her. Nothing you can do when you get the phone call a week after the damage is done.
"All my pictures and email are gone! Can you get them back?"
I never even knew she had a problem since I'd cleaned and configured the system the previous Christmas.Facebook makes grandmothers even more stupid and helpless than they already are. She has to click on every link in case it's the Link that God Himself meant for her to get her Inspiration from this hour ....
>She has to click on every link in case it's the Link that God Himself meant for her to get her Inspiration from this hour ....
Is your grandmothers name Terry by any chance?
A local store takes 70 dollars to run ccleaner and defrag. Almost wanna get into the business myself
70 to run completely useless software?
>buddy has issues with his p c heating up
>gives it to some repair service to change thermal paste
>pays 50 bucks for it
>pc starts working slow as shit
>ask him for a dxdiag
>he starts tripping balls after checking his specs
>the repairman replaced his parts with older garbage
He's the kinda person the macs were made for.
>weaboo
>buddy
We believe you
Computer tech at a local shop here
Here are some of our prices (can change and barter to make a sale if necessary)
diagnostic - free
virus removal - 89.99
OS restore - 79
OS restore with data - 99
ram install labor - 40
500 GB HDD replacement and OS restore - 164
500 GB HDD replacement and OS restore with data 184
PSU part and labor 80? (usually just a 350 watt)
Those are some of the usual ones and like I said depending on new HDD size and other factors we have free reign to adjust. As another user said people are stupid and I wish I could just do it on my own and make bank.
LMAOOO
Fuck this enraged me but I'll tell myself it's fake to feel better
user you have no idea how scared normies are of computers.
Tell her.
You'll feel better. maybe you'll get laid also
You gotta charge a labor fee though. Don't be stupid.
>let's fix computers and only charge for parts
>let's match newegg prices so we sell at a loss
>rent? What is rent?
It's a business you idiot.
>ram install labor - 40
wow..
>diagnostic - free
this just data mining for nudes? right?
When did I say the business or myself doing work should/shouldn't charge a labor fee? I was referring to doing something on craigslist/out of my own home without having to worry about extra rent if you were referring to my last sentence? Much easier to get people into a brick and mortar location though then some NEET's home.
You're right.
I also think they should charge a labor fee for diagnosing it too. Like 20 or 30 dollars.
Yea that ram install labor fee makes me gag desu senpai. That's not even with additional cost of overpriced ram. Yea the diagnostic is just a way for us to run a hardware stress test to determine if they need new hardware or to see what we could fix/charge them to fix their problem. I have been known to mine for nudes though. Best nudes I've seen so far are lesbian couple that came in and did some BDSM photoshoot. You also get shy/quiet grills that come in and have some weird /d/ tier porn.
Computers are cheap and labour is expensive, no wonder a lot of people just chuck their PCs in the trash and buy a new one.
Computer repair shops are the reason I actually started to learn more about hardware and fixing things myself. Many years ago I was a total pleb and had a HDD fail in a laptop. Went to the nearest repair shop. They basically used a bunch of ambiguous terms to make it seem like the problem they were dealing with was very complex. In reality, they ordered a shitty $40 HDD from Amazon, waited for it to arrive, then took a few screws out and replaced my old HDD with the new one. Charged me over $200 for literally using a screwdriver and about 10 minutes max of work.
If a customer checks their computer in for a diagnostic fee I can usually almost guarantee you they are leaving some sort of payment for later. Very rarely do you have someone check something in just to confirm something they might already know then take it home still not working. Worst case is someone without case who checks something in and leaves it at the shop for weeks after repeated missed calls and emails. We try and basically just recycle it or resell their stuff if they don't pick up after a certain date. Diagnostic fee is interesting but it's what our store is known for in the area. I would say even if we did implement a diagnostic fee it would probably get waived if they ended up actually paying for the actual fix.
Oops meant to respond to Can confirm that's what we do. The problem is a lot of customers use terms wrong or differently or don't even know what they're talking about. I've seen a guy bring in a portable DVD player asking us to fix his laptop. I luckily have a backroom so customers can't see how easy HDD and ram upgrades are. But yea Just order the HDDs as needed then replace and install an OS whole process takes like 2 days waiting for Amazon prime parts.
>You also get shy/quiet grills that come in and have some weird /d/ tier porn.
My penis requires more stories.
From what I recall (Haven't had any in awhile) the last computer I had was some weird spider/humam rule 34 shit. Along with some other furry stuff and Yaoi. They're always these chubby grills too. No actual porn of themselves. :c No great stories worth green texting though. You take the good with the bad though because you usually get more guys then girls with nudes hunched over with their gut and erect dick as the main tile on Windows 8 pictures folder.
>spider/humam rule 34 shit
You mean just monster girls or are we talking some shelob egg-laying injection shit?
I think it was more of the second? All I remember was a guy tied up in some web and the spider was coming down like Tobey Maguire for some dick suck action. There was probably some side view x-ray shit of egg laying. She had a whole folder of the stuff from different artists.
Yeah, ovipositionfags are pretty weird.
But their toys look neat.
I have a friend who spent 150 bucks on an a6 5400k machine (with 8GB RAM, 120GB HDD and a literally who psu which somehow hasn't burnt everything down). You know what the seller of that pc advertised? "i7-like performance with a powerful 2GB Graphic card (which is the APU) that let you play all games on the market". I told my friend he dun goofed but he was like "meh, the pc is working fine so it's money well spent".
Recently he wanted to upgrade said pc and asked for my "advice" on some upgrades his brother's friend suggested to him. Those upgrades include a "4GB graphic card" (no name was mentioned), 8GB RAM (to put into the mobo that has only 2 ram slots and both were installed with 2X4GB sticks) and and a "more powerful psu to power said graphic card" (also no name was mentioned). The brother's friend told him all that would cost nearly 350 bucks. I pointed out the issues but he was dead set on buying them so ever since I have stopped talking about anything computer related to him.
You should have made a list of parts to get yourself. Now you have to live knowing this.
Thank you very much. My wife's son is a hard core gamer and he's been asking me to buy him one.
Here's a $100 tip for you service time.
>my wife's son is a hard core gamer...
underrated post.