Computer repair shop scamming me?
Posted on October 17th, 2009 by admin
Well i know for sure my laptops GPU is broken and the shop i bought it from say I need a report for it. I took it to one shop and they confirmed it was the GPU but they don’t do reports. I took it to another one for a report and they say it is a software issue but I know it isn’t because i have reinstalled a million times. The second company made me pay 28 pounds for looking at it and wanted 50 for repairing it! I know they are scamming me but i cant prove it without carrying out the repair
Possible they are scamming but I dont belive that good shops open to rip customers off as they are there to do continuous business and hopefully aware that bad news travel fast. So, unless some do a full diagnosis hard to say what is wrong. Next time, please provide more details about your problem so people who respond have better idea. You could have hardware failure in which case you would not be able to see windows. A message will display way before hand. You could have bad disk drives, controllers, video card, RAM issues and even failed mother board. But if you can see windows and it keeps crashign it could be software related or bad device drivers.
October 17th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Possible they are scamming but I dont belive that good shops open to rip customers off as they are there to do continuous business and hopefully aware that bad news travel fast. So, unless some do a full diagnosis hard to say what is wrong. Next time, please provide more details about your problem so people who respond have better idea. You could have hardware failure in which case you would not be able to see windows. A message will display way before hand. You could have bad disk drives, controllers, video card, RAM issues and even failed mother board. But if you can see windows and it keeps crashign it could be software related or bad device drivers.
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October 17th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
28 pounds to look at it is ott. but 50 pounds for the gpu possibly isn’t too bad.
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October 17th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
Their prices are high, but they are not necessarily trying to rip you off.
Most likely you have some sort of issue with either an incorrect driver or something along those lines. You may have installed it a million times, but installing the wrong driver a million times will always come up with the same result.
Maybe if you told us what model computer you have, and what the issue is, we could guide you in the right direction in order to fix it yourself.
Ideally, if a company charges you money to diagnose a problem, they should apply that diagnostic fee to the cost of the repair.
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