have I been screwed???

ringo747

ringo747

ringo747

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just back from picking up my pc from a repair centre... basically my mobo died and i ordered new one myself and new gfx card and took it into the local guys to get fitted as i hadn't time with uni commitments and also I didn't want the hassle of it. Got the bill which was £120! Surely this is daylight robbery?! Is it not simply a case of taking out old mobo, put in new mobo, reinstall windows?? Maybe I'm just shocked but when on a student budget I can do without these kind of bills!
 
Should have ordered from Ocuk. Seriously, i dont know but do a quick check to see if you have been shafted. If your pc was taken to the high street, excpect more charges.
 
thats the dangers of taking it to someone they will almost always charge the earth for something you could do in an hourish
 
ElRazur said:
Should have ordered from Ocuk. Seriously, i dont know but do a quick check to see if you have been shafted. If your pc was taken to the high street, excpect more charges.
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Sounds like that was just the installation price and that he'd taken the new mobo and graphics card to them to install.
 
£120 :eek:

I could have done it for half that price. Allthough youd have to move to Newcastle. :p
 
Well did you ask first before you got them to do it?

If thats what they charge and people are prepared to pay it then fair play to them!

But yeah that is rather expencive.. sounds almost as bad as pc world!

EDIT: Actually did you give them your windows serial? Perhaps the cost covered paying for windows xp aswell as swapping out mobo and installing it?
 
i could have done it myself and now i wish i had but really dont have a spare min as uni is so busy!

After the initial analysis when he said my mobo was dead the bill was standing at £15. Maybe they charged me for renting a foot square of their office so that my PC could stay there for a week before the new mobo arrived!

It will be a while before I'm back thats for sure!

EDIT: yeah i already had spent £120 on new mobo and gfx. Also I did give them Windows serial so I wouldn't have been charged for it. (I hope)
 
Those kinds of services are very expensive - they always beat you down with excuses like 'it can be very dangerous (static charge rubbish)' or 'it requires a lot of technical knowledge'. Really, it's quite a simple past-time :)
 
I used to help run a small pc repair shop and we would have charged like this.

Initial diagnostic and minimum initial charge ( just for spending time looking at it ) £20

Fitting new mainboard... depending on how much stuff is in your case and assuming the front connector wiring doesnt need soldering £25

Reinstalling windows and downloading, installing all your drivers for all your equipment and testing that everything works properly £40

So thats roughly £85ish but depending on how many driver disks you gave me or how fast the install went probably would have charged £75ish.

Shirt land will charge £75 just to tell you its knackered :D

So yeah id say you have been charged at least £40 over the odds by the sound of it.
 
you were slightly over charged but I wouldnt say by a great deal. I do this kind of work and the way I look at it is that you're paying for not only the parts / my time but for my knowledge and experience as well... if you dont think its that difficult then why didnt you do it. Oh and also get a def price before any work is carried out...

A typical car dealership will probably charge £50 an hour so why shouldnt we? just cos its a smaller unit than a car doesnt mean it isnt worth the same amount... A reinstall of Windows / service patch and update usually takes at least an hour, then all the other drivers would have to be installed, data recovered possibly + mobo and GFX installed, so it probably took about 2 - 3 hrs approx...
 
My mates laptop broke and the PC repair shop charged him £63 to reinstall windows. It's shocking the amount people charge these days.
 
Meeark said:
My mates laptop broke and the PC repair shop charged him £63 to reinstall windows. It's shocking the amount people charge these days.
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Well surely people can't be overcharging .. they do have to make a living out of it - if people weren't willing to pay they wouldn't charge so much!

Should ask the price before getting them to do any work really!
 
Is it only me that does not see anything wrong with these prices?

I charge similar amounts but I suppose I always give my customers a full quotation before commencing any work. No hidden bills.
 
Thats the great thing about fixing peoples computer, you can charge ridiculous amounts because they have no idea about them. :p

£120 for 15mins work. :D
 
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