From: Robert Benschop (rbenschop_at_telebyte.nl)
Date: Sun Jun 27 2004 - 01:29:18 PDT
On 27-jun-04, at 1:30, Frank Gruendel wrote:
> You wouldn't believe how many TV sets I have fixed for less than the
> cost
> of a bottle of beer because their owners were told by the service
> technicians that the picture tube was dead. Which it was in no case,
> this is just a convenient way to make people buy a new TV set since
> the picture tube is by far the most expensive part in a TV set.
> This, although it allowed me to finance parts of my studies, hasn't
> exactly increased my trust in "pros", either...
Yeah, never throw it away... Repaired a washing machine a couple years
ago in half a day that the repair guy said was a total loss, which is
saying: my time is more expensive than a new washing machine, since I
had a day off my time was cheap ;-)
Worse, though, I think they threw away my 130 because it wouldn't turn
on anymore (this is way back, in the stone age before I even knew
NewtonTalk existed) which I still regret, would have probably regained
its' health in Franks' hands.
On the bright side, it made m buy a 2000 (which was released 2 months
before) and I never looked back...
Robert Benschop
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