Computer Repair Undercover Investigation

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A local News Station does a undercover investigation of Best Buy, Circuit City, and Micro Center - and their computer repair services. The results may surprise you....unless you are in the computer repair industry...then you probably won't be surprised...

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Well said, but the ... ( 1 year ago by thedoctor01101111011)

Well said, but the key word that needs to be re-iterated is "assume."
Children playing w/ their daddy's computer taught me that.

Or the MBR/ ... ( 1 year ago by thedoctor01101111011)

Or the MBR/bootsector corrupt. C/H/S incorrect or not detected.

Screen of Blue ... ( 1 year ago by snake88usa)

Screen of Blue Death? LoL Blue Screen of Death

cheap most of the ... ( 11 months ago by thestreetdogg)

cheap most of the time cost more....

well good thing i ... ( 11 months ago by cisco760ca)

well good thing i know about pcs. i would be a poorman by now with all the pc problems i use to have. its always good to know a little about everything.

that is true.. ... ( 11 months ago by jazztrio2008)

that is true.. many tech wiz's don't look at the computer. It does take time, look at all connections or memory. takes a little common sense to fix small problems..

Geek Squad is out ... ( 11 months ago by jazztrio2008)

Geek Squad is out of the question

wow good thing i ... ( 10 months ago by Boxtupac)

wow good thing i know how to fix my computee

dentist do the same ... ( 9 months ago by BrainRemovalD3vice)

dentist do the same thing too . watch out

This is exactly why ... ( 6 months ago by twinbytesinc)

This is exactly why I make my how to videos, and why I wrote my book. To try and help people avoid being taken advantage of by bad techs or techs that simply diagnose incorrectly.

@snake88usa lol, I ... ( 6 months ago by twinbytesinc)

@snake88usa lol, I had to listen to it again to make sure I heard it right. That`s funny.

What is this BIOS? ... ( 6 months ago by falubii)

What is this BIOS? I hate when people try to talk about computers and they don't know what they're saying.

Also, LOL @ screen ... ( 6 months ago by falubii)

Also, LOL @ screen of blue death.

My logic with ... ( 6 months ago by Vargas1349)

My logic with repairing PC's give it a KISS (Keep it sane and simple). Most of these self-proclaimed computer centers hire people that can't tell a difference between SATA or a IDE hard drive nor can tell DDR2 from DDR3. And I hate it when "techs" say I have to wipe out your PC you will loose everything.......Seriously over a BSOD!?

He just went to the ... ( 6 months ago by RottenTreat)

He just went to the Bios and had the computer try and load the operating system from a location where it could not be loaded......
Solution- Go to the Bios and set it to load the OS from wherever its stored CD....HDD....Ect.....

I remember that ... ( 5 months ago by Informer3X)

I remember that Best Buy charges some obscene $200 for "Data Recovery" if your motherboard fries....though all you really need is one extra SATA cable and power connector to do the same thing at home....gotta love how easy it is to rip off people nowadays....

Simple fix. Don't ... ( 5 months ago by mtb416)

Simple fix. Don't be computer illiterate. It's the 21st century, not the 20th Joe Biden, get with the program, learn to be computer savvy.

google is your best ... ( 4 months ago by windywindy)

google is your best friend

the trouble is, for ... ( 4 months ago by InternetSandman)

the trouble is, for us people who know what we're doing, a job at any of these stores where we could actually do some good wouldn't pay enough to be worth it. they do employ incompetent people and they're paid the wages they deserve, cause the corporations don't wanna spend bigger bucks on better employees

best buy chrages ... ( 4 months ago by NudeNuke)

best buy chrages 129 to get to your house and 250 to install the OS, wtf?

SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM ... ( 3 months ago by tisjust4notes)

SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM IYogi through Log me in(logmein)..
Iyogi, this company uses freeware and shareware demos to "get rid of malware and spyware". Iyogi claims to have provided a legitimate service after charging $139.99 USD for freeware!

imm 13 andd imm ... ( 3 months ago by MoeMonayE)

imm 13 andd imm tryin to run a computer repairr thing at my housee andd i only charge 30 dollars to reinstall the OS but everytime i see all those people in the geeksquadd line i feell bad cause the pay like 200 for somthing that can be fixed easily

I once went to ... ( 2 months ago by truthIsStranger)

I once went to futureshop for this and they were pissed off that I included the keyboard and everything else in the main box. It actually bothered them so much that I did it differently than they would, that they smashed and broke the keyboard, kept the cardboard, and threw it back in the box. I can't remember the rest but there was more. I had to argue with the manger over what is basically the nature of reality to get a new keyboard back, but he didn't really sound surprised.

@snake88usa screen ... ( 3 days ago by 1ofmeNlotsofU)

@snake88usa screen of death is so mean -_-

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