Rage control

[Escape_Driver]

Most of my buddies I do free work for do me favours in return... IE borow Movies, Help me around the yard.. Hell one buddy let me borow a Bob Cat for the week end to do some land scaping !!

[Commander Klarg]

Yup, freebies only to family and close friends. Otherwise, pony up cash or some other type of reimbursment.

[Ya_know]

Lady do you ask you car dealer to fix your car over the phone !!! NO you bring it in to them !!! That computer is a little more complex than your Car !!

Actually...cars are far more advanced then a PC is every aspect. To be a vehicle mechanic takes a lot more than troubleshooting a PC...I am sorry to burst your bubble there.... You have to know electrical, cooling, AC, engine, brakes, transitions, system computers, and that’s just scratching the surface. Not to mention, I don’t know of a single shop that’s got AC running where the cars are worked on, so tack on the frustration of sweating you’re a$$ off in summer, and freezing your balls off in the winter.

I’d say you got it easy. What you should have said, was…you don’t expect your car mechanic to offer free advice to fix your car…otherwise he would be turning away business. Then go into your “money and trees” argument, that’s a much more honest approach.

[King Grover]

I'm trying to get out of the home user support all together. You see, when you fix a PC for a guy at his house, and then a week later, teh dickface downloads Comet Cursor or something else like that to F- it all up again, it gets blamed on me becuase i apparently did not do the job that he initailly paid me for when I cam to fix the POS. then he wants me to come over and do more work, like reload the entire OS and backup everything FOR FREE becuase I didn't do it right the first time and he already paid for it. F--k taht!!

[Ya_know]

Amen Grover!

[Escape_Driver]

I agree with the fact that cars are can be even more complex than computers... But there are So many similarities between the two that I try and use car analogies as much as possible... People are not intimidated by cars as much as computers..

As for Grover Amen and I wish

[King Grover]

whaddya mean, Amen? What wood you guys do in that situattion? I'm sure you've all seen it before. That happens all the f--king time on my side jobs. I'm sick of it. I don't care if the guy sgets pissed and doesn't call me back. I'd rather go back to my loyal customers that know I do good work and appreciate the fact that I will come to their house and reverse tehir f- ups and charge a reasonalbe (lower than any other) price. What wood you do?

[Escape_Driver]

This is a small computer shop... We've been in business for 14 Years and Customer service is your corner stone... We do not sell cheapest computers my base system with only a CD-Rom starts at $850 no monitor... We sell QUALITY and SERVICE.... The people who are willing to spend a little more are the type of customers that I want.

[GrandDad]

Actually...cars are far more advanced then a PC is every aspect. To be a vehicle mechanic takes a lot more than troubleshooting a PC...I am sorry to burst your bubble there.... You have to know electrical, cooling, AC, engine, brakes, transitions, system computers, and that’s just scratching the surface. Not to mention, I don’t know of a single shop that’s got AC running where the cars are worked on, so tack on the frustration of sweating you’re a$$ off in summer, and freezing your balls off in the winter.

I’d say you got it easy. What you should have said, was…you don’t expect your car mechanic to offer free advice to fix your car…otherwise he would be turning away business. Then go into your “money and trees” argument, that’s a much more honest approach.

"...I am sorry to burst your bubble there.... "
I'm sorry to burst yours , but they don't .
Some of the old mechanic's might , very few so called mechanics of today may know about all the above , must are trained in a few area's and then its only how to connect it to a machine or scanner and start replacing parts that those say might be the problem and send it out , if the car comes back , replace more parts , evetually they may fix it .

[Escape_Driver]

"...I am sorry to burst your bubble there.... "
I'm sorry to burst yours , but they don't .
Some of the old mechanic's might , very few so called mechanics of today may know about all the above , must are trained in a few area's and then its only how to connect it to a machine or scanner and start replacing parts that those say might be the problem and send it out , if the car comes back , replace more parts , evetually they may fix it .

You've met the dealer who sold me my Escape haven't you !!

[+Daemon+]

had a guy at work whom I did some out side work for..

wired house for network, dsl hook up computer build

and I specified in the agreement that I only did 3 months on site (which was a nice break) and I cahrged $30 to look at the problem and $60 an hour to fix it.. any who this guy was comming to me like my email doesnt work, how do i use outlooks etc.. so I told him I can come out and show him/fix it he is ok, so i come out and give him a bill afet and his jaw opens like he extepcted it fro free, then after that I didnt get call from him