My wife recently spilled some water on her out-of-warranty laptop & it took out the motherboard completely. It is a basic laptop that only cost about $900 at the time, but I saw some websites that claimed they could fix these types of repairs so I tried one. Unfortunately, they said they couldn't repair it. They offered me $165 for the laptop or send it back. Being somewhat handy, I opted to have it sent back to maybe replace the motherboard myself. Since then, I was able to find a motherboard for it on ebay and repair it. It has been running great for the last few months now with no problems. After some pondering, I was starting to wonder if these laptop repair places are legit & for real or do they basically try to tell everyone it is "unrepairable." Then hope the customer gets frustrated & will just accept their low offer for it. Hence, repairing it themselves anyway and turning around to sell it for a tidy profit. Does this sound like something that is going on? Just curious.
I think it's pretty interesting that they offered you such a HIGH price for your laptop. ie: $165 (how did they come up with that figure??) I would have of course replaced the motherboard, but I do that for a living. For an average User, I would recommend they take it to a few shops and get second and 3rd opinions. Then, I hope they come back to my shop, take my offer, then, I do what you did, find replacement parts, QA test it, and then resell it for $400 and maybe make a 100 dollar profit so I can go out and buy something fun or put it toward another hardware upgrade. Make sense?? Or, I could even take my wife out to dinner with the 100 bucks?
