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HP DV6936us - dead 29 days after warranty expires
http://tinypic.com/r/246vo6v/6
http://tinypic.com/r/n69r46/6 HP wanted $104 just to troubleshoot. Of course I talked to "Linda" whose real name is Deependra Guptda Mukkalukkafukkachucka. I plug the god damn thing in, and I get a blue pulsating light as seen above. I bought this for my mom last Christmas. Isn't that just wonderful? Aren't I a good son? No. I'm a terrible son, I should have bought her a ****ing Mac - but No, the HP was cheaper. So let's run down the cost of this piece of ****. $700 Original cost $50 Shipping $100 Tech "troubleshoot" cost $150+ Repair labor (guestimate) $160 Motherboard (per ebay) $20 Power adapter (if that's the problem) $1,180 Total WOW! So tell me... How should I quantify the downtime? She runs her own business. I'll make up a number. $1,000 So the total comes to $2,180. Where are the savings? They wanted $100+ just to talk to me? How dare they. How can they justify that? Doctors and Psychiatrists don't charge that much. Plumbers don't charge that much for an on site service call, but these douchebags want that much just to troubleshoot? I understand a change for repair - but just to talk? Not even one hour of free phone time. Call girls (not street walkers) run $200 for the first hour. So talking to some stinky third world crusty chemical infested dumbass accented Maheshwara worshiping thing; costs half as much as it would to nail a 21 year old model??! One more Apple customer. If I sold this on eBay I would get $400 for it. So I'm supposed to spend 25% of the total cost just to talk to another Guptda Mukkalukkafukkachucka so he can tell me I need to pay another $200 to replace the board? Last year when I called Apple for a problem with a MB 13" I talked to an American. Had an RMA in ten minutes, box was sent to me the next day, shipped to their repair center, and was returned in two more days. It started on Monday, I had my machine back on Friday. |
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