Frustration with local PC shops (rant post)
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£50 for changing a power supply? If you live near someone from here I dare bet they will do it for free.
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It's really not, is it? I doubt you could get a PSU out. good cable management is a slow process.
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I'm in Derby, bring it around
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im in nottingham, hucknall to be precise, i could do it you today if you bring it round?
i charge cider.
as long as you pick me up/drop me off i will do it at yours, i cant drive at the moment else id travel
i charge cider.
as long as you pick me up/drop me off i will do it at yours, i cant drive at the moment else id travel
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its probably a mix between busy and not wanting that type of work.
I mean to do it as you describe you want it doing would probably take a couple of hours, and to make that worth their time they'd probably need to charge i dunno, £25-35/h + bits so you'd be looking at £150, and doubt you'd wanty to pay that.
Much easier to replace laptop screens/remove viruses/sell new builds
I actually think assuming it is modular, and getting the same make is a great time-saving way of fixing the problem
Hit the nail on the head pretty much.
Where I work, repairing PC's just isn't worth the time involved, your earn more per hour working on laptops and macs.
Unfortunately you'll be at the bottom of their job list while they have more lucrative work in.
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I own a computer shop 10 minutes of J28 of the M1 if you got all the parts bring it to me I will do it for free. 
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Not Ilson is it?
Haha hit the nail on the head! 'Good' ol' Ilson lol. Thanks for the offers everyone. Bit difficult now as the car broke down today
not my day lol
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Haha hit the nail on the head! 'Good' ol' Ilson lol. Thanks for the offers everyone. Bit difficult now as the car broke down today
No worries, expect a new thread "How **** garages are"
No worries, expect a new thread "How **** garages are"
Haha brilliant!
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There are 4 computer "specialist" shops where i live in blackpool and they are all utter tripe, they all stock only the oldest tech you can find and have absolutely no idea what words like "crossfire", "modular" and "sandybridge" mean you would have to beat them to death with an SSD before they even got a whiff of what one was and i wouldnt trust these plonkers to change the ball in a mouse because they dont stock lazer mice.
This is why i need ocuk and the guys on this forum and to just suck it up and do whatever it is myself. Have a stab at it, take your time and ask loads of questions on here, pictures help to if you get too stuck.
And OCUK i think its about time you opened a few satelite stores around the UK, starting with Blackpool.
This is why i need ocuk and the guys on this forum and to just suck it up and do whatever it is myself. Have a stab at it, take your time and ask loads of questions on here, pictures help to if you get too stuck.
And OCUK i think its about time you opened a few satelite stores around the UK, starting with Blackpool.
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I knew it lol, anyone who puts between Notts and Derby is an Ilkestoinian 
If your having trouble PM me your mobile number and I'll pop round and give you a hand.
If your having trouble PM me your mobile number and I'll pop round and give you a hand.
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There is definitely a market out there for competent stores, the problem is that the profit margins are so small and the overheads so high it's difficult to employ competent staff. I daresay OCUK are just about breaking even from the 'offline' side of the business.