Craigslist Laptop Repair
Thursday, December 06, 2007
Oh no. Some of these people actually believe that they're HELPING people.
We really do not want to publicly call other people names, but some of these people are just plain stupid.
Have you watched American Idol? Take the monkey kid for example. That poor kid actually believed he was going to be the next Frank Sinatra. Everyone is good at something, but this kid was way off base. How do people get so lost?
Today, someone brought to our attention a Craigslist post here in the Raleigh area. This guy praises himself as the laptop repair expert. Now this... This is the funny part. Above is one of his images that he uses- he calls the tool in the picture his special and "proper tool" for repairing laptops. That is a picture of an $8 soldering iron from Radio Shack. Only a complete idiot would use that on a innocent customer's laptop. For example, we use soldering equipment here. Was our tool $8? No. We have over $15,000.00 invested into soldering equipment.
We used to post ads on services online such as Craigslist, but these people would just steal our ads. So, we've completely refrained from using sites like Craigslist in an attempt to separate ourselves from these dreamers. In the end, it is all word of mouth.
The tragedy of all of this is the service that the end user gets. We opened our company to offer genuine solutions and help people. We try to offer affordable, cost effective laptop repair solutions.
Anyways, we do not want to sit here and flame newbies all day long. We just wanted to enter a blog post that sets the record straight. We'll probably link to this post in the future.
As a final note, using an $8 soldering iron like this on a laptop will heat the board up too much. This will weaken the solder joints of other components on the motherboard. It is possible to perform some repairs with that type of tool but it is not a good idea. Using our equipment we can remove and replace solder in a few seconds. Using one of the $8 tools will expose the laptop's motherboard to heat for an extended period of time. We've had people tell us it took "hours" to repair a problem using one of these tools. We get laptops in that people have attempted to repair using equipment like this and it is just a mess. This is just one of literally hundreds of examples we could point out when an amateur gets involved with laptop repair.
posted by AbsoluteRaleigh @ 7:20 PM,
1 Comments:
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At 2:05 PM,
AbsoluteRaleigh said...
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We were sure we'd receive some responses to this post. Unfortunately, we've had to reject them. The most recent came in from a guy going by support365 who can not spell very good. He also tried to link back to his site using certain keywords (which no longer works, BTW). Anyways he went on to tell us how sorry he was for us for using anything more than an $8 soldering iron and that he keeps his in the back of his pickup truck for repairs. YIKES!
Some people out there.. Argh.. I don't know what to say, we're at a loss for words... I bet he sings as well as Sinatra!
