rant on pc shops taking advantage of customers

[Midnitewarrior4]

7 hours ago, d3sl91 said:

 

2. Computer is dead... that is a data recovery. It's pulling out an old failing hard drive from a crashing and now dead computer, and manually recovering files. Potentially hours of work. Maybe not, but, often times there are set prices to account for potential problems. $200 ($150 USD) for data recovery is not outrageous. 

 

3. $1000 CAD for a computer - I think thats about $700 in USD. But, it's not outrageous. Likely they are charging $150-200 on top of the parts cost in order to actually make some money, which results in a ~$500 USD computer. That's not very ridiculous, depending on what they are putting in it. 

 

 

So, without seeing the exact details, I think they made off pretty well. 

 

 

i do understand where your coming from, but from what i was told it was a fairly decent sized shop with inventory, if someone came in and used a pc a couple times a year for photo backups would you give them a 4790, 16gb of ram and a 1tb hard drive ?

and for the data recovery part, the drive was fine just again motherboard issue, so simple as taking the hdd plugging it in then press copy then paste